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Investing

The Challenges of Market Timing

When markets fall, it’s natural to want to take action to prevent further losses. Doing so however can do more harm than good. Here’s why timing the market to buy low and sell high is not as easy as it sounds. If you’re invested in the financial markets and also keeping up with the news, […]

Financial Planning

Kids and Money – it’s Never too Early to Start

When teaching your children to manage their money you are helping your kids grow into financially savvy adults. You might even learn something about your own money habits along the way. Children see money nearly everyday, and as they become old enough to recognise the currency value on coins and notes they’ll want to start […]

Financial Planning, Investing

Why Investors Shouldn’t Overreact to Talk of a Recession

Stocks typically begin to recover during recessions, in anticipation of economic and corporate earnings growth. Vanguard continues to project a 35% chance of a recession in Australia over the next 12 months, influenced in part by the potential of other developed economies entering recession. In this context, preliminary data suggesting that the U.S. economy contracted […]

Financial Planning

Three Steps to your Kids’ Financial Success

For many of us, our first experience of banking and savings was the school Savings Account Program. Like many of you, we had CBA ‘Dollormites’ accounts set up in our early school years. But in 2019 the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) raised concerns that these accounts had little lasting impact on children’s savings […]

Financial Planning, Investing

Stay Invested Despite Current Market Conditions

With markets falling and inflation ramping up, investors might feel they need to ‘do something’ to avoid further losses. However, when it comes to investing, taking action in response to market turmoil may derail a sound investment strategy. To say that conditions have changed since Vanguard’s initial 2022 outlook would be an understatement. We welcomed […]

Financial Planning, Investing

Tips to Avoid Investing Badly

While it’s difficult to be the best investor in the world, we can all actively avoid being a ‘bad investor’ by learning from history and staying the course. Extended periods of market volatility regularly spark discussions around great investors and the traits that qualify folks to be included in that category. This is probably because, […]