Everyone starts with the pension and stops there. Here's what the ISA, LISA and JISA do that a pension can't, and the half of the plan most people skip.
Reinvested dividends do a large share of the work, and it is easy to overlook. How the compounding actually happens, and why an ISA lets you keep all of it.
Most people invest in the wrong order, and it costs them more than they realise. Here is the sequence I follow, and why each step earns its place.
You put money in, you get a bit more back. What happens when that bit more starts earning its own is compounding.
Everyone obsesses over returns. The number that matters more early on is the one you fully control: what you put in.
Not a yacht or retirement at 35. The quieter, more useful version: the point where work becomes a choice.

