The Biggest Financial Mistake People Make in Their 40s and 50s – Guidance Financial Services

If there’s one age group where financial decisions really matter, it’s your 40s and 50s. You’ve been in the workforce long enough to know who you are professionally. You’ve accumulated assets, built a career, maybe raised a family. And yet, this is also the phase where many Australians quietly start to coast financially—often without even realising it.  It’s the most common, most costly financial mistake people make in […]

7 mins read

Robinhood is constructing a “regional triangle” that unlocks the one thing US regulators won’t permit

Robinhood has spent the past few years trying to outgrow its meme-stock reputation, and the clearest sign that it is thinking differently now sits far from Menlo Park. In early December, the company said it would buy PT Buana Capital Sekuritas, a small Indonesian brokerage, and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto, a licensed digital asset trader, […]

9 mins read

Surviving system meltdowns and cyber attacks

New contributor and perma-worrywart The Engineer is back with a new concern: how to survive system meltdowns or other malicious goings-on at your financial services provider. These days, my biggest financial worry isn’t losing my money in the markets. It’s losing access to it altogether. Beyond investment risk, my concerns range from technology failures through […]

7 mins read

Practical XAI For UX Practitioners — Smashing Magazine

Explainable AI isn’t just a challenge for data scientists. It’s also a design challenge and a core pillar of trustworthy, effective AI products. Victor Yocco offers practical guidance and design patterns for building explainability into real products. In my last piece, we established a foundational truth: for users to adopt and rely on AI, they […]

29 mins read