It has certainly been an eventful start to the year from a financial perspective – it’s never dull for long, that’s for sure, in economics and in financial planning. It’s impossible to ignore what’s been going on in the world, more so when it starts impacting our day-to-day lives, such as with rising oil prices when we fill up our vehicles.
Since I last wrote an article, the world is in a very different place due to the situation in Iran. As I have always said when people ask me about what I think will happen to their investments in the days, weeks or months ahead, my answer is always I simply don’t know, as what is going to happen next on the global stage is not anything that can be predicted.
