“Money can’t buy happiness” is one of those phrases people repeat without examining, usually to reassure themselves or gently scold someone else. It is also, as stated, mostly wrong. The research on income and wellbeing is more interesting than the cliché, and understanding what it actually says is genuinely useful if you are a high […]

When a business owner starts preparing to sell, almost all the attention goes to the money. The valuation, the multiple, the deal structure, the tax, the diversification of the proceeds. All of it matters, and getting it right is real work. But it is not the part that catches people off guard. The part that […]

There is a particular kind of quiet that follows a big financial win. The deal closes, the balance clears, the number you spent years chasing finally sits there on the screen. And then, more often than anyone admits, very little happens inside. A day or two of relief, and then the strange flatness of realising […]