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Money: Know where you are. Understand what's next. Move forward with confidence.
This is Jigna Gibb's home for financial education - free resources and tools that share the basic disciplines on money spending, saving and investing. These are life skills that schools fail to teach and often don't get talked about at home. The Gibb Forward Curve framework has been developed over 25 years of servicing institutional money, and rooted in growing up knowing every penny counted.
What the content covers
Real-Life Tools, and the terms explained in plain English
Financial planner: Measure your income and costs in one place - see how much you could be saving
●The real cost of cash: How investment growth actually compounds against inflation over time
When can I retire? How much is enough? - Register your interest
Buy versus Rent: What is my budget to buy a home? - Register your interest
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Real numbers. You decide what they mean.
Two tools, both free. Unlimited use. Data stays on your device. Enter your own figures and see the maths in full - no recommendations. Just your numbers, for you to interpret.
Financial Wealth Check
Enter your income and costs below. The output will be only as reliable as the inputs so gather up your payslips, income and bank statements to get a more accurate picture. See your net annual balance, a full income and cost breakdown, and what share of your income your costs take up.
This is a calculation only, based on the figures you enter - it is not financial advice and does not take your full circumstances into account. Nothing you enter here is saved, stored, or sent anywhere.
Interest Compounding Calculator
Enter a starting amount and a growth rate. See how the value could build at several points in time, both before and after inflation - and what a delay in starting could cost.
Figures are illustrative examples only, based on the rate you enter, compounded annually with no withdrawals or additional contributions. Past growth is not a guide to future growth, and this is not a projection or forecast of any specific investment. Nothing you enter here is saved, stored, or sent anywhere.
“My banking career earned me a living. Over time, I moved on to owning my financial decisions - now my money works as hard as I do!”
Jigna Gibb spent 25 years inside some of the world's largest financial institutions - Goldman Sachs, Barclays, Deutsche Bank, and most recently Bloomberg, where she led the Commodities and Digital Assets Index business with over $100bn in tracked assets.
Long before working on the trading floor, she learned the basics of money on the pharmacy shop floor in Manchester - cash flow, discipline, the kind of financial common sense that never made it into a textbook. This site exists to close the gap between those two educations - the institutional and the everyday.
Jigna's approach · Earn. Own. Grow.
Introducing the Gibb Forward Curve
The best time to build your next opportunity is while your current one is still working for you - not after you've reached a plateau.
The same principle applies to personal finance. Your Forward Curve is the financial future you're creating today, long before you need to rely on it. Rather than waiting for a career change, retirement, or an unexpected life event, the Gibb Forward Curve framework encourages you to build wealth steadily alongside your working life.
Inspired by the ideas explored in Charles Handy's The Second Curve, the Gibb Forward Curve provides a practical framework for taking control of your financial future. It is built around three simple principles:
- Earn – maximise your earning potential.
- Own – convert income into assets that generate long-term value.
- Grow – allow your wealth to compound and support your future goals.
Throughout this site, you'll find easy to understand guides, real-life case studies, and free planning tools designed to help you understand your finances with confidence. Whether you're just beginning your wealth-building journey or refining an existing plan, the Gibb Forward Curve is designed to help you make informed decisions today that create greater financial freedom tomorrow.
What's on this site
Financial education and free tools.
This is a free education site, built around Jigna's Gibb Forward Curve approach. It explains financial terms and ideas in plain English, walks through case studies, and gives you a handful of simple calculators so you can see your own numbers. We do not give personal advice or tell you what to do with your money.
Plain-English explainers
Financial terms and concepts explained without jargon, plus hypothetical case studies that show how the maths plays out in practice.
Two free calculators
A full annual wealth check and interest compounding examples - enter your own figures and see the maths in full, no recommendations, no scoring, no sign-up required.
25 years on the inside
Built by someone who spent a career servicing institutional money and wants to make the same thinking available to everyone else.
Start with one number: what's actually left over.
Two minutes, no sign-up, no jargon. See the calculation in full - the numbers, not a verdict.
Try the annual wealth check →This site provides financial education and free calculation tools only - not regulated financial advice, and not a personal recommendation. Tools show the maths based on the figures you enter; they do not assess your circumstances or recommend any product, provider, or course of action. Figures are illustrative and not guaranteed. Always seek independent financial advice before making significant financial decisions.