Mistakes can be hard to admit because in doing so we have to acknowledge that we’ve somehow veered off course, and sometimes that’s a daunting prospect. Where does that leave us?How long will it take to recover and get back on track? Although it might be confronting,...
Just like your car needs a periodic service to stay in tune, here's why you should rebalance your portfolio from time to time. A portfolio’s asset allocation reflects an investor’s goals and temperament—the need for return as well as the ability to withstand market turbulence. Over time,...
Many parents and grandparents worry about how to help the children in their lives achieve financial independence. But the value of long-term investment can seem like a dry and complicated idea for kids to get their heads around. In fact, many young people would like to...
Are you wanting to start investing to make your money work harder, but don’t know where to start? As a beginner, you are clearly going to need a certain amount of capital in the form of savings. I often get asked questions like; How much should I be...
Gold has been glittering for some time, but many share market investors have outperformed. In early November four men were charged over the 2019 theft of an 18-carat gold toilet from Blenheim Mansion, the former home of British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill. Valued at around A$9...
Here are five investing tips for those who are just beginning their investment journey. 1. Evaluate where you're at financially Before beginning your investment journey, it's important to sit down and map out your financial position and goals so that you know where you are and exactly...
The book that every investor should read is a lesson on how life experience shapes an investing philosophy. Gideons International is an organisation that distributes bibles. A lot of bibles. Since their founding they have distributed 1.3 billion of them. The bible of investing is...
Why you shouldn’t put all your investment eggs in the one basket. The Spanish writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra isn't widely regarded as a renowned investment strategist. But it's in his most famous literary work Don Quixote, published in 1605, that one of the quintessential investment phrases, still...
These three common mistakes are easy to avoid. Making them could be costly. It’s understandable that heightened share market volatility can be very unsettling for investors. And there’s a reasonable chance that markets will remain volatile over the medium term, with inflation and interest rates still high. Higher...
Making portfolio changes based on short-term volatility can be detrimental over the long term. Making knee-jerk changes to an investment portfolio’s asset allocations based on the current market conditions, generally speaking, isn’t an ideal strategy. But we’re seeing a lot of reactive behaviour by investors right around...
He is also an accomplished presenter and educator
Co-authoring the popular investment book, Property vs Shares.