The Top 10 Money Excuses
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The following article is courtesy of Jim Parker, Vice President, DFA Australia. It highlights that without a disciplined pre-conceived approach to making money related decisions, it is easy to justify…
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The Reality of Lifetime Annuities in Australia
Lifetime Annuities: good product, immature market If you’re looking for a way to outsource your investment, longevity and inflation risks, you’re in luck. There is a financial product (a lifetime…
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Index Investing: Naïve or Smart?
What is index investing? Many investors shy away from index investing because they deem it to be too naïve for their investment purposes. There’s definitely a higher seduction factor associated…
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Putting the investment odds in your favour
Managing investment uncertainty Whether we like it or not, there’s a lot uncertainty involved in predicting the future. Despite the increasing availability of information, our ability to predict has not…
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Baby boomers’ housing experience may not repeat
Baby boomers still borrowing to buy property Over the six years to 2009-10 [1], baby boomers (those born between 1945 and 1964) continued to pour money into both owner occupied…
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Moneyball: a story of faith in an objective strategy
Evidence triumphs over anecdote If you’ve seen the movie “Moneyball”, (or read the book by Michael Lewis), you may have picked up on some similarities between the issues faced in…
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The Allure of Gold
Gold as a safe haven The allure of Gold, as a viable long term investment option, has shot to new heights in the past five years. While this is perhaps…
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Borrowing to buy property within Super: Buyer Beware!
Just because you can doesn’t mean your should Borrowing to buy property within a Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) has been promoted by many within the advice industry as an…
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DIY Financial Planning – The real costs may not be evident
DIY Financial Planning appears to be a low cost alternative There are a lot of smart people who make some rather dumb choices with respect to their finances. More often…
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Is your investment risk strategy paying off?
Are you an intelligent risk taker? Most investors accept the notion that risk and return are related and that those who are prepared to take on more risk will ultimately…
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