First published 2 August 2018 for Mancell Financial Group No doubt you’ve heard the news. Two of Australia’s oldest media companies are merging. Nine and Fairfax have decided for the sake of their futures to combine, or as some have said Nine will be swallowing Fairfax. There are implications for the media in Australia and […]
First published 26 Jul 2018 for Mancell Financial Group “But I want it, I want it, I need it!” Paul had gone to visit his sister and his nephew. He’d walked into a financial battle between Mother and 11-year-old son over the game Fortnite. You might say she had a fiduciary duty to the young […]
First published 19 Jul 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Maybe you’ve heard of Bill Gross. He’s a well-known investor and fund manager who founded investment manager PIMCO. Worth a few billion. Done very well for himself. Gross left PIMCO in 2014 and moved to Janus Henderson Group. Last week the news came out that Gross’s […]
First published 12 Jul 2018 for Mancell Financial Group The ‘active versus passive’ debate in funds management is a guaranteed space filler in the financial media, but it would help the general public if those making the comparisons got their facts straight. A recent article in Professional Planner by John Peterson of the Peterson Research […]
First published 6 Jul 2018 for Mancell Financial Group “Why do you include so many bad news stories?” It’s a question we’ve been asked, not regularly, but maybe it needs addressing. First off here’s a good news story. This is the growth of $10,000 over the past 25 years in five different asset classes. If […]
First published 29 June 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Losing money is no joke. Witness all those forlorn investors who regularly appear on A Current Affair, 7:30 and 4 Corners, recounting how they were trying to secure their future before some financial disaster befell them. Whatever the cause (and we’ve discussed plenty of them) inevitably […]
First published 14 June 2018 for Mancell Financial Group It would seem never has so much been lost by so many in times of headline prosperity. What does that mean? We’re continually surprised about the inbuilt marketing characteristics of property as an investment strategy, even to people who have lost money on it. We repeatedly […]
First published 8 June 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Last week the Productivity Commission released a report into superannuation. No surprise, it didn’t paint the best picture. Suggesting the super industry was lacking competition and accountability, while many funds were still acting in their own best interests and not their members. It came with a […]
First published 7 June 2018 for Mancell Financial Group For many years the ASX has been running a sharemarket game through schools which has encouraged high school students to get experience investing in the sharemarket. More recently, the game has spawned another version that runs along with the school game and is open to everyone. […]
First published 24 May 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Did you miss the top performing company on the ASX in 2017? If so, don’t be too disheartened because it’s turned into one BIG disaster. BIG Un Limited, whose main business was its subsidiary, BIG Review TV, was in the business of creating promotional videos. Small […]
