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An Australian blog that provides useful information on retirement planning, superannuation, and the financial world in an easy-to-understand manner.

February 21, 2021

Why It’s Not Enough to Have Your Balance Go Up Every Year

Most people have some money saved for their retirement. Whether this is in superannuation or across other investments,...

February 19, 2021

Why Would I Want Share Prices to Go Up?

People put a lot of focus on the price of assets; specifically the price of shares.

February 18, 2021

Biases – Why We Struggle to Fix Our Mistakes

Why is it so hard to fix our mistakes? Sometimes, decisions are not black and white – especially when it comes to our...

February 17, 2021

We Never Know Why Company Share Prices Fluctuate, Only That They Will

Everyone knows that company share prices go up and down – that’s a fact. What we don’t know is why they do – that is,...

February 15, 2021

What if My Super Drops by 30% When I Retire?

This is a pretty common question we get from our clients. It’s an understandable fear, given that market volatility is...

February 12, 2021

We want personalisation, not choice

We’re going to get a little philosophical here and make this statement: people in the modern world want lots of choice...

February 10, 2021

Biases: Why We Make Mistakes

This is the first in a 4-part series about human biases. Human beings are funny creatures who do some strange things,...

February 10, 2021

Listener Question: Building a Separate Two-Bedroom Cottage

This week, we have a listener question from Linda. Linda and her husband live on the Sunshine Coast and are 5 years...

February 8, 2021

The Shocking Risk of Term Deposits

Think about term deposits. What words or phrases come to mind? How do people often describe them? Safe. Secure....

February 8, 2021

The Facts of The Last 30 Years

You’re entitled to your own opinion, but you’re not entitled to your own facts: one of Dallas’s favourite sayings of...

February 5, 2021

Find Money and Automate

We often encourage our clients to find ‘extra’ money to go towards their investments. This doesn’t have to be huge – a...

February 4, 2021

Federal Budget 2020 tax cuts : $100 a week for you

In our 88th podcast, we made a statement about how you can turn $100 a week into $100,000 over 10 years by making...

February 3, 2021

Simplicity is best

So, today’s blog is called ‘simplicity is best’, because we think this also goes for financial strategies. The simpler,...

February 2, 2021

No-one's coming

When it comes to your retirement, your finances and your business: no-one’s coming to your rescue. In other words, all...

February 1, 2021

The difference between gold, property, and companies

Are price and value the same? Actually, price and value are very different. Take ‘the hamburger test’ as an example –...