Roy Walker IFA - Financial Adviser In Dubai

If you bought a “6-inch” screen phone this year, it will have a SMALLER screen than the “6-inch” screen phone you bought two years ago.  Here’s why. Call me old-fashioned (or just old), but I spend a lot of time reading stuff – articles, charts, and data – on my phone.  And I mean actually reading it – not ‘skimming’ through an article while my thumb is continually scrolling the page upwards. A ‘Full HD’ screen is 1920 x 1080 pixels – which is nice for movies, and gives an eye-friendly ‘book page’ ratio of 16:9.   This has been the standard screen ratio of mobile phones for several years, up to the last year or so, when suddenly manufacturers have switched to a 18:9 ratio  (which is 2:1 by the way… no idea why they call it 18:9, duh).   For me, 16:9 is perfect for reading text.  2:1 isn’t – it’s too thin and narrow.   Supposedly, manufacturers have switched to this format because phones with skinnier screens fit into our pockets better,...

It was my great privilege to be a finalist of the Financial Planning Awards run by the Financial Planning Association of Singapore (FPAS) this year. And a surprise and an honour to be awarded Winner of the Financial Advisory Open Category. The FPAS was established 20 years ago, with the aim of developing and promoting the financial planning industry in providing independent unbiased financial advice.  The FPAS award aims to recognise financial planners in Singapore who excel in their professional knowledge, demonstrate financial planning skills at the highest level and uphold best practices.  The competition assesses the financial planning acumen of practitioners from three major industry sectors in Singapore namely the Banking sector, the Insurance sector and the Financial Advisory (FA) sector. The award also aims to develop and maintain high ethical standards and increase high quality financial advice within the industry sectors. The highly esteemed panel of judges repr...

My son and I walked from Weymouth to Swanage along this World Heritage Coastline.   About 50km over 3 days, including some very steep cliff paths.