Dan Jones

Financial Planner/IFA at DGS Chartered Financial Planners. Retire from work, not from life! Based in Hertfordshire/London.

[Dick Delingpole @DickDelingpole]

I’ve found him! The most boring yet “govern-me-harder” sanctimonious old fart on Twitter.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

Was at the @dimensional Foundation Conference today and you @AdviserPodcast boys will be pleased to hear TRAP got a shout out as part of David Swanwick’s intro for mentioning (rightly!) on today’s episode that he’s one of, if not the, best speakers in our profession! 👏🏼

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

Most of our clients hopefully 💪🏼

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

You know there's a guy out there living a life of zen-like contemplation in a cabin somewhere, refusing to check the news, who assesses his portfolio on a monthly basis and has no reason to believe that anything happened in April.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

All the shouting, all the media outcry, and for what… 🤷🏻‍♂️

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

Maybe the craziest, dumbest, wildest month of market coverage I've ever covered. Very stupid, very fun, sorry to everyone who sold. S&P closes down less than 1% for April

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

What could possibly go wrong…

[FT Adviser @FTAdviser]

Neil Woodford announces plans for new investment service https://t.co/LAKKtCruwd

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

@SmartSacks Saw him in Cambridge at the Corn Exchange the other week. Very funny!

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

@nicklincoln Given my good lady lives there you feel my pain. It’s almost worth letting her go over. Almost. That bottleneck near Welwyn northbound particularly ‘fun’.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

What a thread this is 😂

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

In honour of @DouglasKMurray winning against the Guardian Group in court and because they've been sadly missed on X since they left.

I thought it time we took a stroll down memory lane and revisit some of the very worst from the Guardian

Feel free to add your own 🧵

[Josephine Cumbo @JosephineCumbo]

The 'pension funds' are private retirement savings of thousands of workers. Trustees of these funds have a duty to invest in their best interests. Retirements are put at risk if pension money is diverted to meet political objectives.

[Frances 'Cassandra' Coppola @Frances_Coppola]

It is not the job of pension funds to dig the UK government out of its fiscal hole.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

A damning graphic. Yet one some will laud and celebrate. And therein lies the problem.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

Gld to see tht Aberdeen hve fnnlly cme to thir snses.

[FT Adviser @FTAdviser]

Abrdn renames itself Aberdeen to ‘remove distractions’ https://t.co/6JcnYvSSUP

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

Someone won £1m this month with just a £100 Premium Bonds holding, purchased in May 2023 – the second smallest holding ever to hit the jackpot.

Blimey. How’s your luck!

[nsandi @nsandi]

North Yorkshire saver turns £100 into £1m in March Premium Bonds jackpot!
Our second winner to scoop the £1million prize is from Cumbria.🎉
Check the NS&I app tomorrow to see if you've won! 📱
Read more here 👇
https://t.co/Fg36jv2cAl

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

A financial journalist that doesn’t appear to have heard of inflation is an interesting concept.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Cash is king. Never goes down. No charges.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

@nicklincoln @WatfordCouncil The empty wine bottles piling up outside Lincoln Lodge due to fortnightly collections will have the neighbours tutting 🍷

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

@geobuywise101 @nicklincoln @AlanJLSmith @AdviserPodcast Sorry to hear you’ve had a bad experience. Sounds like the wrong adviser has broken your trust which is a shame. There is no secret sauce when it comes to investing but if you think you’ve found it I wish you the best of luck.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

@samsloma1 My understanding was we don’t have the permissions? I’ve had clients move to France etc and have had to refer them on elsewhere as can’t advise them if both adviser and client aren’t on UK soil.

If I’m wrong, I’m off to get my suitcase out the loft 😆

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

I wish I could do this in my profession. 6 months of the year doing my annual planning meetings on Zoom from sunny Portugal, the other 6 back here doing face to face etc.

[Daniel Priestley @DanielPriestley]

54 countries now offer some form of Digital Nomad Visa. It’s never been easier to live and work from anywhere.

If you are a highly-skilled person who works from a screen, you are the prize countries are fighting for. If your home country wants to treat you like a plough-horse, you can move to any of the 50+ lower tax, higher lifestyle options.

You don’t have to wait for elections. You can vote with your feet whenever you like.

[Dan Jones @DanJonesIFA]

@geobuywise101 @nicklincoln @AlanJLSmith @AdviserPodcast As much as I appreciate your generous offer Rob, I’ll stick to my long term 100% global equity buy and hold portfolio over your 60/40 portfolio you’ll fiddle with. The only thing I’ll do in a bear market is add any spare funds I have to my pot to benefit from the sale on offer 👍🏼