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Day: June 17, 2013

You need more — it’ll be a while ’til you knock on heaven’s door

It’s not my “elevator pitch”, or what I spout when someone at a barbecue asks me what I do. But the fact is simple: I deal in death. More precisely, I help people prepare for death at financially inconvenient times. Dying too early. Living too long. And having a cruddy time during that period when […]

One deadline that’s super important

PORTFOLIO POINT: It’s not too late to get your final contributions into super for FY13. But make sure you don’t get caught on the tricky timing issue. Knock, knock. Who’s there? June 30. Oh, bummer. Right, so with less than two weeks to go in this financial year, have you sorted out your super contributions? […]

Banks and miners are the biggest components of our sharemarket. Should you invest in one, both or none?

Like mooning an avalanche as it rolls down the icy slope, sunbaking on the beach after a tsunami warning, or sticking your pinky in the leaking dyke. Somewhere between utterly pointless and unarguably dangerous. If you invest in Australian shares, you can avoid the bastard banks and the earth-raping and pillaging mining stocks. But why […]