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Nuclear option for your super

Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 5 September, 2021   Sometimes you feel an overwhelming desire to wrest control of an aspect of your life that’s felt not quite right. You’ve been watching on, or maybe deeply involved, for years. Something has consistently pissed you off, or you’ve seen avoidable errors, or the decisions of others is […]

Building us up for a nasty fall

Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 29 August, 2021                             It was all in the name of research for this column. But, I swear, now I’m at the point where now I want to kill someone. Specifically, If I had to choose one person, […]

Put the moves on sexy super

Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 15 August, 2021             I have spent too much of my life taking potshots at various governments and politicians for being “superannuation stupid”. Simply, super is a thing of undeniable beauty. It should be like a siren’s song, instantly entrancing and captivating all who hear just […]

The King’s Dead

Bruce Brammall, The Daily Telegraph, 15 August, 2021     Is the famous phrase “cash is king” such a truism that it can’t be argued? It has some great upsides. Cash is pure liquidity and can purchase anything. It allows you to act fast on opportunities. It’s accepted by everyone – except maybe crypto-loving Russian […]

Waddya mean, no?

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 9 August, 2021                                                                     Watching the never-ending generational warfare on property prices between Boomers and Millennials can […]

A new housing “crisis” knocks

Bruce Brammall, The Australian, 8 August, 2021                                                                           I love the old gag about economists and their wayward prognostications: […]

Look at your super balance and smile

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 12 July, 2021 Want to put on a smile? Go look at your super balance. I’ll wait. Hey! How good was that performance? Wet blanket moment: Don’t hold your breath waiting for that to happen again in your lifetime. It might, but it’s unlikely. Traditional balanced super funds were likely […]

The Sir Humphrey Problem

  Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 26 July, 2021 Don’t you love some of those cosmic laws? You know, the ones that sound like they’re laws of physics, but aren’t. Murphy’s Law: “Anything that can go wrong, will”. Parkinson’s Law: “Work expands so as to fill the time available for it’s completion”. And the Law […]

We are all now richer!

  Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 28 June, 2021 “You’ve never been richer” says the Government’s chief statistician. And he’s quoting stats, so you know it’s 100 per cent fact. (Oh, except for when they need to belatedly revise things.) Given the financial year we farewelled last month, that would have been a gutsy prediction […]

Why Susan’s so super

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 14 June, 2021                     June is finance Grand Final time and you can smell the tension in the air. Might make you jumpy enough to get you a little punchy – give or take a little bit of a jab. Lucky […]