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 […]
First published 17 May 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Read a survey on financial advice and it’s estimated anywhere from 70% to 85% of people will never seek it. Yet from the small pool of people who have sought financial advice, 80-90% of those (depending on the survey) will acknowledge the advice they received was […]
First published 10 May 2018 for Mancell Financial Group It’s been a few years since the term ‘moneyball’ was widely appropriated throughout the sporting world. In case you missed it, Moneyball was a 2003 book by Michael Lewis (later a 2011 film starring Brad Pitt) following the Oakland Athletics baseball team. The team had the […]
First published 2 May 2018 for Mancell Financial Group Ultimate Fighting step aside because the biggest blood sport in recent weeks has been the Banking Royal Commission. Banks and financial institutions have been belted, executives smashed and conflicted financial advisers guillotined. All with good reason. Next we had the politicians backtracking and apologising before they […]
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. […]
