First published 3 October 2019 for Mancell Financial Group They were the subject of much derision at the last federal election. Before you say the Labor party, no. Electric cars. What’s powering them (besides electricity)? Batteries. Charge them up and away you go – hopefully for a few hundred kms. Most of the battery focus […]
First published 26 September 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Shareholders aren’t everything. That sounds like a concerning statement to hear if you’re a shareholder. It might be the sort of thing you’d hear said by less than business friendly types. Hippies, socialists, gasp… millennials! Well no. It was essentially the message that came out of […]
First published 13 September 2019 for Mancell Financial Group “The markets haven’t been very good lately,” the investor said with some concern. “Should we be doing something?” Markets were off their highs. Trump was being Trump. August had been one of those months. Off nearly 5% in a week. Sideways for the next three. A […]
First published 6 September 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Trust comes naturally to some professions. Take a survey from any country and there will inevitably be a consistent top three in the trusted category: nurses, firefighters and doctors. It makes sense. At their core we have to trust these professions with our health and our […]
First published 22 August 2019 for Mancell Financial Group A ‘3% plunge on the Dow Jones Index’ is ‘sparking fear that the US is on the verge of another recession as ‘more than than 60 billion of wealth was burnt’ on the Australian sharemarket. One analyst said there was ‘a plausible scenario in which the […]
First published 15 August 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Any successful career will at one point see a peak and then a decline. If we take authors as an example, Truman Capote hit his peak with the release of In Cold Blood, but never finished another novel, descending into alcoholism and drug addiction. Capote’s good […]
First published 8 August 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Last week we looked at the potential for age related cognitive decline. It’s no great secret that as we age our bodies begin to go into some form of decline, it can’t be disputed because the evidence is visible. Mental decline isn’t visible, no one knows […]
First published 1 August 2019 for Mancell Financial Group If you have even a passing interest in films, you’ll probably know the names Robert De Niro and Al Pacino. Both have been mainstays of the film business since the early 1970’s, with the pair acclaimed and awarded for their performances dating back to that decade. […]
First published 12 July 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Over the weekend, the Australian Financial Review profiled one of the victims (story behind paywall) of the alleged Goldsky ponzi scheme, along with ASIC’s apparent lack of action in shutting Goldsky down before too many unsuspecting investors were drawn in. We briefly wrote about Goldsky last […]
First published 5 July 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Australia appears to be stuck in an economic malaise. Household debt has never been higher, wage growth is stagnant, gross domestic product per capita (everyone’s share of the economic pie) has been shrinking. And this was with interest rates already at record lows. Solution? Cut interest […]
