First published 5 April 2019 for Mancell Financial Group Fantasy sports have taken off over the past decade. Not deriving enough excitement from watching various sports, we now have to live vicariously through the stats of our favourite players. In Australia, the big game is Supercoach. It’s free to play, it’s run by News Corp […]
First published 14 March 2019 for Mancell Financial Group In Greek mythology Sirens were beautiful half-bird/half female creatures, but you couldn’t trust their appearance. They lured passing sailors with beautiful music and melody toward their island home. Their singing was so enchanting that the sailors would forgo everything else in life to steer towards their […]
First published 28 February 2019 for Mancell Financial Group They were on the main street of every large and small town. They were in suburbs and there were multiples of them in cities. They were crowded with people most nights of the week, especially Fridays. Many were small businesses owned by families, but there were […]
First published 21 February 2019 for Mancell Financial Group There are some angry retirees around Australia right now. Labor’s plan to rescind franking credits from those who haven’t paid tax has seen impassioned speeches at public hearings, angry letters to newspapers, and media profiles where the aggrieved quote how much they’ll lose from the changes. […]
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 […]
