First published 20 April 2018 for Mancell Financial Group If there’s one constant about money, it’s that someone is always wanting to take it from you. As disheartening as that statement is, the quicker investors learn it, and understand who they can and can’t trust, the more secure their financial prospects will become. Bringing us […]
First published 5 April 2018 for Mancell Financial Group In 2015 it was the hottest thing in Western Sydney. Blacktown’s Altitude Tower, the first high rise in the area. The media breathlessly reported 90% of the apartments were sold on the opening auction day. With Sydney house prices nosing past $1 million at the time […]
First published 29 March 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Certainty. We all deserve it, don’t we? Especially as we get older, the expectation we can rely on the same things to keep working and providing for us over decades of retirement. We may think we deserve certainty, but life’s not like that. As Labor’s recently […]
First published 22 March 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Labor’s proposed change to franking credit refunds on dividends has provoked quite a debate in a short space of time. For a quick primer, under the imputation system, companies who pay franked dividends to shareholders can pass on a tax credit for company tax already paid. […]
First published 15 March 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Recently the New York Times profiled a man named Erik Hagerman. A former corporate executive, Mr Hagerman is an average man who lives alone in rural United States. So why was the New York Times so interested in him? Turns out he’s deliberately ignored the news […]
First published 23 February 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Last week the media were excitedly reporting on a man named Noah who claimed he had traveled back in time from the year 2030. Noah had some great stories to tell about the future and had even passed a lie detector test apparently. Among things he’d […]
First published 16 February 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Back in the early 2000’s there was a rash of media coverage about safe rooms or panic rooms. It was an armoured room built inside a house where the occupant could ride out a bad situation while waiting for law enforcement to arrive. The rooms became […]
First published 9 February 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Well, there it is. The correction that we’ve been told has been coming every month since January 2017, finally arrived. Over? Probably not, but it was needed. Needed? Yes needed. Nothing in life comes for free. 2017 was an extremely rare year where the entrants enjoyed […]
First published 2 February 2018 for Mancell Financial Group The allure of the self-managed super fund is control and freedom. The freedom to choose the path to retirement riches. There’s also the freedom to make mistakes and according to a new report those mistakes have cost SMSF investors $103 billion over the past 10 years. […]
First published 26 January 2018 for Mancell Financial Group 2017 was the year that truly highlighted the importance of ignoring the media when it comes to your finances. The reaction to Donald Trump being elected President prompted all manner of hysterical forecasts and pearl clutching by those opposing him. Something that also occurred when Barack […]
