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Day: March 21, 2011

Two decades of Japanese deflation casts eerie shadow

It’s a bit Foo Fighters, but I’ve got another confession to make. As a financial adviser and investor, Japan is not a topic of conversation that I like to get stuck on. But today I’ll take one for the team. Japan doesn’t scare me because of this month’s devastating earthquake and tsunami. The tragic loss […]

“Splitting a restaurant dinner bill can be stressful. How do you work out who pays?”

Thankfully, the national standard for divvying up share-plate restaurant meals is NOT according to volume consumed. One of my parents’ nicknames for me in my youth was “Garbage Disposal Unit”. Whenever we went out for dinner with friends at one of Canberra’s Chinese restaurants in the 70s and 80s – there wasn’t much choice there […]

“Aussie shares have been pretty flat over the past five years. Should I sell mine and switch it all to cash?”

URRGHACKACK! Know what sound that is? That’s the sound Bart Simpson makes when Homer is choking him. It’s the same sound I made as I read this question. Everything in cash? For Gen Xers? You cannot be serious! Listen carefully. You can’t save your way to a fortune. You’d have to put away about 20 […]