Cue Louis Armstrong: “You like to-may-to. I like to-mah-to. Let’s call the whole thing off.” Yup, there is only one way. And I think, deep down, y’all know what it is. So, walk up to your partner, say thanks for the lovely, if sometimes challenging, times you’ve shared and have a kiss. Then call it […]
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Little known fact: I was the first ever victim of internet credit card fraud in Australia! Okay, not the first. But it was last century, which made it pretty early in the history of cyber crime. And it scared me off online purchasing for years. It was 1998 and I’d never bought anything over the […]
I’m feeling an arctic breeze blowing through my world, but I can’t hear the “Happy Feet” tapping of penguins. I’m feeling a little vulnerable, a little skittish. Actually, I’m feeling a little like Tinkerbell. Peter Pan warned the kids that if Jane stopped believing in fairies, “Tink’s light’s gonna go out”. She’d just plain disappear. […]
PORTFOLIO POINT: Labor is planning a major tax slug for super members who are a little above average. If you’ve got $1 million in super, you must read this. I accept that I can be a bit of a cynical bugger. It becomes ingrained with a few decades of journalism under one’s belt. So I […]
PORTFOLIO POINT: Why you can’t leave planning your salary sacrifice to the last minute. Plus “Election 2013” – the super political promises have started. Concessional contributions are a fairly simple concept. There’s a limit you generally don’t want to go over. For the moment, that’s $25,000 for everyone who’s able to make contributions. (Let’s see […]
MOST of us need? Seriously. All Gen Xers need it! Like we need air. And Sunnyboy iceblocks on 40 deg day. Ask yourselves the following. Have you got a mortgage, kids, partner, debt or a job? Still breathing? The more of those you said “uh-huh” to, the more insurance you need. Unless you won lotto […]
PORTFOLIO POINT: How do you compare? The latest stats show some surprising trends in the SMSF sector. For years we moaned about the quality of up-to-date statistics on self-managed super funds. The data was years old by the time it came out. That is changing. We’ll never get up-to-the-minute figures like we do with share […]
For the nervous, the twitchy, the ones looking for an excuse … is it ever really a good time to invest? Nobody likes to “catch a falling knife”. With shares, picking a plummeting stock’s bottom is more luck than skill. Take investing any time in 2008. Every knife in the kitchen, sharpened by Gordon Ramsay […]
WHOA, dudes! It’s January! Anyone for beach cricket, downing a few frothy ones and cheering congestion-free roads? Can’t we just bask in the glow of that gnarly second half of 2012, where Australian shares did 16 per cent? No? You’re right. It’ll be June 30 before we know it. Okay, the first strategy involves noting […]
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