First published 14 February 2019 for Mancell Financial Group With some things in life, a good start is everything. Take the 100-meter sprint, the whole race is over in 10 seconds or less. The importance of getting out of the blocks quickly to ensure success can’t be understated. In the 100-metre sprint’s extended athletic cousin, […]
First published 7 February 2019 for Mancell Financial Group The findings and recommendations from the Royal Commission into Misconduct in the Banking, Superannuation and Financial Services Industry have been delivered. Commissioner Kenneth Hayne made 76 recommendations and the early noises from both sides of politics were 75 of those recommendations will be implemented. Whether this […]
First published 31 January 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Returns are in for last year and for equities they weren’t the best. In fact, for equities they were the worst in seven years. That’s the importance of being diversified. Fixed interest, listed real estate and cash helped smooth out the sharemarket drag of the final […]
First published 24 January 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Christmas is the time of year when shopping cranks up, people wind down and financial markets exist in a mostly positive slumber. You don’t expect much bad to occur in financial markets during December. For the most part, over the last 30-something years, December has been […]
First published 14 December 2018 for Mancell Financial Group What are the biggest issues the average investor faces? No matter what answer anyone offers, you can pull out a marker and draw a line back to two things – lack of knowledge and emotion. Despite what we may think, none of this is the investor’s […]
First published 7 December 2018 for Mancell Financial Group It was time to get some financial advice. You were over 60 and you didn’t think about this earlier. You were never going to be 60, right? That happened to other people. Your joints weren’t going to creak, the weight wouldn’t creep up on you, you […]
First published 29 November 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Men and women are different when it comes to money. Not the most outrageous statement. It’s something financial advisers who sit across the desk from the sexes on a daily basis have no problem telling you. What are the differences? If you want to make it […]
First published 22 November 2018 for Mancell Financial Group James Cordier of optionsellers.com is the type of guy who you don’t really know who he is, or what he does, but he’s someone who provides those assured sounding quotes on the direction of markets on the business channels. As his website used to say, he’s […]
First published 9 November 2018 for Mancell Financial Group If you haven’t heard, house prices in Australia’s largest cities have been falling. In Sydney and Melbourne, auction clearance rates are wallowing in the low 40% range (it may even be lower given the transparency of the data) and the price decline in Sydney has extended […]
First published 9 November 2018 for Mancell Financial Group How far do we get without commitment and perseverance? Any task we begin in life is going to require some commitment and perseverance if we wish to pursue it thoroughly. That commitment may begin early in life. As children, we may show an interest to pursue […]
