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. […]
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 […]
