Why Advice

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 […]

There Is No Guy

December 14, 2018

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 […]

The Worst Year

December 7, 2018

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 […]

Venus & Mars

November 29, 2018

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 […]

And It’s Gone…

November 22, 2018

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 […]

True Grit

November 9, 2018

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 […]

First published 1 November 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Every year we’ll be confronted with a multitude of disasters. Sombre yes, but a fact regardless. Maybe they won’t affect us personally, but they’ll appear before us on the news and they should be pause for reflection. Most show how relatively helpless we are as human […]

Measuring the ASX (Again)

October 25, 2018

First published 25 October 2018 for Mancell Financial Group A few years back we wrote a story on the ASX 200. As we said at the time “it’s often referenced, but few of us know what’s behind the number that’s quoted on the nightly news.’ You might call the ASX or any other equity index […]

First published 4 October 2018 for Mancell Financial Group In many aspects of our lives we’ll find ourselves either pursuing areas of expertise or delegating to those who can better utilise their skills for an improved outcome. Alternatively, you can watch DIY Youtube videos for guidance. Setting aside internet expertise, these are often what forms […]