by admin | Jan 13, 2022 | Budgeting, Debt, Economics, Federal Budget, Index, Interest Rates, Investing
You might think that only importers and exporters pay attention to the value of the Aussie dollar, but movements in the exchange rate affect us all. After peaking at US$0.81 in January 2018, the Australian dollar fell as low as US$0.61 in March 2020, and is currently...
by admin | Jan 13, 2022 | Active, Economics, Index, Investing
There is a saying in the industry that a rising tide lifts all ships, and 2021 wasn’t an exception. We saw the ASX200 crack double digit growth (around 17% for the year depending on you metric), but today we are going to look at the top ten stocks that did most...
by admin | Jan 6, 2022 | Economics, Lifestyle
The COVID-19 Global Pandemic seemed to come from nowhere. Just as we thought we were chugging along quite nicely, it crept up and went, whammo! We didn’t see that coming! Within a week, more than 700,000 Australian jobs were lost and by June 2020 Australia was...
by admin | Jan 4, 2022 | Budgeting, Business Planning, Economics, Investing, Lifestyle, Superannuation
A client who runs his own dry cleaning business came to see me last week. Barry was in a bit of a state. He told me it had suddenly dawned on him he was getting closer to retirement and had been reading all these stories in the paper about how much a person needed to...
by admin | Jan 4, 2022 | Active, Budgeting, Economics, Family, Index, Investing, Lifestyle, Superannuation
As most long-term investors know, investment markets have their ups and downs. The downs are usually associated with periods of uncertainty, perhaps due to political or economic factors, or even natural disasters. Uncertainty leads to volatility – more extreme...
by admin | Dec 29, 2021 | Budgeting, Debt, Economics, Family, Insurance
While the standard of living is constantly improving in Australia, economic disruptions, stagnant wage growth and continually increasing house prices are putting more and more people under financial stress. A recent report by the social research group, the Melbourne...
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