According to Psychology Today, evidence suggests that removing clutter from your life can boost energy, reduce anxiety and improve focus. While many of these outcomes concern decluttering at home, the benefits it brings can also be transferred to your finances.

The more uncertainty there is in global financial markets, and volatility in asset prices, it seems there are more voices using lots of complicated language and jargon to try and predict the future and explain the past. You can see this on the traditional…

Patience, put very broadly, is the ability to accept and tolerate delay without getting angry and upset. Never before have I known the importance of patience until I was told that I could not run for fifteen weeks. I was faced with a task that seemed…

With the ongoing war in Ukraine, households across Europe could see further increases to their cost of living during 2022. As a result, you may now be keeping a much closer eye on your household’s outgoings and being more diligent when it comes to reducing your energy use around the home.

Hopefully, this will not have resulted in you having heated discussions about finances with the one you love. That said, if you have, you’re not alone.

The one life skill most people wish they were taught at school is practical financial knowledge, from how to budget and the importance of savings to how taxes work and through to pensions. This knowledge gap can be compounded when you are an expat…

By Sue Said

How many times have you heard someone describe themselves as a perfectionist? Perfectionism has become everyone’s favourite flaw. For something that supposedly holds us back…

The European Central Bank recently stated that the Russia-Ukraine war would have a “material impact on economic activity and inflation”. This, it added, was due to higher energy and commodity prices, the disruption in international commerce, and weaker confidence.

While investment decisions should be based on facts, many investors find their decisions are sometimes influenced by emotions. Whether you’re excited about an investment opportunity, or worried about market volatility, keeping emotions in check…

The more uncertainty there is in global financial markets, and the more volatility in asset prices, it seems the more voices can be heard predicting the future. You can see it on the traditional media of television, hear it on the radio and read it in…

Have you ever given some thought as to why the snooze button exists? Logically speaking, how does it make any sense to set an alarm to wake up at a specific time, only to delay waking up by a few minutes? Studies show that more than one in three adults…

We have all spent the last two years managing our families, our jobs, our finances, and our lives through the extraordinary epoch of the coronavirus pandemic. Now, as countries begin to remove restrictions and optimism for less restrictive life returns…

The cost of living across the eurozone reached record levels when inflation reached 5.1% in January 2022 – the highest since records began in 1997. A key driver of this increase has been skyrocketing energy prices, which Euronews reports rose…

A trend of recent years is the emergence of online financial influencers. The Covid induced lockdowns have amplified their voices, and also the concerns of those that have lost money from their recommendations. This has led to the focus of…

When markets increase their volatility – the amounts they move in either direction from day-to-day – as they are doing now, it typically attracts headlines across the media. It’s normal at these times to worry about your money, to make sure you are, and will be, ok.

When’s the best time to invest? Have we missed the boat or is it worth waiting a bit? In short, nobody knows. I could really end the article right there, but that would just be stating the obvious and not very helpful to anyone. Lots of people claim that they have the key…

With the number of people with the Omicron variant of Covid still surging across Europe, it looks as though many people who are fortunate enough to do so could be working from home for some time to come. That said, homeworking can cause…

How many times do you check your phone a day? A study carried out by Asurion revealed that American adults check their phones an average of once every ten minutes – around 96 times per day. Our phones have replaced so many things…

Black Swan Capital Europe is delighted to announce that we have won the prestigious International Adviser Excellence in Client Service award, Europe. International Adviseris the leading publication for professional financial services firms around the world.

In its recent annual European Consumer Payment report, Intrum reveals that 43% of consumers believe that Covid will have a negative impact on their finances for at least another year. It also reveals that 22% of Europeans predict…

A recent study has demonstrated there is an “intrinsic link” between improved mental health and receiving financial advice. If you are an expat living in Europe, dealing with the many complexities of international life…