Click video to listen to story. Novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald once said, “The rich are different from you and me” to which Ernest Hemingway responded: “Yes, they have more money”. As with many famous anecdotes, there was some embellishment and it didn’t quite happen the way you might expect. However, Hemingway was right. One of […]
First published 29 July 2021 for Mancell Financial Group. The one hit wonder is a particular phenomenon in music that can be traced back to the inception of the Billboard Hot 100 music chart during the late 1950’s in the US. Generally speaking, it’s a singer or band who may have topped the music charts […]
First published 22 July 2021 for Mancell Financial Group. The concept of adviser alpha has been floating around for several years now. We talk about it on a regular basis without explicitly naming it, but we specifically discussed it back in 2019. From an adviser context ‘alpha’ is essentially an excess return above what an […]
The discipline project lost some of its discipline over the past few months – only from a posting perspective though! As noted back in the Month 9 update, I added emerging markets to the portfolio after a sharp sell off. I also noted I was looking at including a value allocation, which also happened in […]
First published 17 June 2021 for Mancell Financial Group “Good and getting better!” Those are the first words he says every time he visits our office. The question he’s asked that prompts such positivity? “How have you been?” He’s a long-term client, now into his mid 50’s whose optimism never fails to impress us. You […]
First published 27 May 2021 for Mancell Financial Group I said, “So, Walter, errr, script’s pretty good, huh?” And he said, “The script sucks, kid. I owe my bookie $2 million.” And that was Kevin Pollack’s introduction to Walter Matthau on the set of Grumpy Old Men. It was said Matthau lost $50 million gambling […]
First published 21 May 2021 for Mancell Financial Group From pooches to second-hand cars, to homes in regional areas, to ground beef in the supermarket. Everyone has a story about how their money is buying less. Eight years ago, you could get this good girl delivered to your front for $1300. Today, or more precisely […]
First published 6 May 2021 for Mancell Financial Group “Can you tell me which stocks to buy?” Jumping in the deep end before you can swim investment questions aren’t a new thing. People have always contacted us to ask questions that only prompt more questions. Ones they haven’t considered. It’s only natural that if your […]
First published 29 April 2021 for Mancell Financial Group It was a Wednesday morning, and the coffee and biscuits were all laid out. The room was filled with about twenty over fifties. It was a retirement information session put on by a local council for their employees. After accepting the invitation a few weeks earlier, […]
Eight months down, all contributions made, but not as intended… As mentioned last month, I was looking at including the FTSE Emerging Markets Index into the portfolio. Quite fortuitously, I didn’t. As I’d previously been bemoaning that my unintentional “accept the market price”, buy when you have the money strategy, seemed to top tick every […]
