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Innovation Spares No One

September 28, 2017

First published 28 September 2017 for Mancell Financial Group If you’re an Oasis fan you’ll know who Liam Gallagher is. If not, at one stage Liam and his brother Noel fronted one of the biggest bands on the planet – Oasis. Due to creative differences (regular punch ups), Oasis broke up in 2009 with the […]

Deliverance From Bad Insurance

September 8, 2017

First published 8 September 2017 for Mancell Financial Group If you’ve ever seen the classic film Deliverance you’ll know it’s the ultimate insurance advertisement. The character of Lewis, played by Burt Reynolds, begins the film proudly declaring, “I never been insured in my life. I don’t believe in insurance. There’s no risk.”   Movie fate ensures […]

First published 1 September 2017 for Mancell Financial Group In case you needed a reminder – the sharemarket does go down. It’s worth remembering this in a year which has so far been something of a rarity. Earlier in the year we highlighted the media and their incessant hectoring about an imminent correction. With nothing […]

First published 25 August 2017 for Mancell Financial Group Recent insurance scandals with insurers showing a belligerent attitude to paying claims may have left some of us forgetting that insurers actually do pay claims. You wouldn’t think so, given some of the media coverage, but Australian life insurers pay out a significant amount in claims […]

First published 11 August 2017 for Mancell Financial Group From international tennis stars one week to the average mum and dad the next. The ABC’s 7:30 recently featured a story on victims of poor financial advice (investors duped by a noted investment spruiker) who are calling for reforms to protect anyone else from suffering what […]

Boom Boom Goes Bust Bust

August 4, 2017

First published 4 August 2017 for Mancell Financial Group If you are old enough, you’ll remember him winning Wimbledon as a 17-year-old. Three decades later you may have heard the news about him going bankrupt as a 49-year-old. The man in question is Boris ‘Boom Boom’ Becker. In the wake of his bankruptcy there have […]

First published 13 July 2017 for Mancell Financial Group The www, the internets, the dark web, the Google, the email thing or whatever you choose to call it. The thing on your laptop, tablet or phone that connects you to the rest of the world has been the most boundary flattening way to access information […]

First published 6 July 2017 for Mancell Financial Group You may have noted it’s a tough time in media right now; at Fairfax, another round of reporters have taken redundancies as private equity circles. News Corp have been bleeding money and laying off photographers and subeditors, while remaining staff were reportedly told the company “is in a […]

First published 23 June 2017 for Mancell Financial Group The internet and email have changed the way we communicate over the last 20-25 years. While email may seem a little old hat these days with various social media tools emerging as ways to stay in touch, it’s still the major official point of contact between […]

The Land of Confusion

June 22, 2017

First published 22 June 2017 for Mancell Financial Group If you’re old enough, you probably remember when Phil Collins and a band called Genesis were topping the charts in the mid 80’s. For the most part, they were an easy listening pop/rock band, but at one stage they strayed into the political arena with a […]