Most of us would like to think we make rational investment decisions, right? Well here’s a chart courtesy of Russell Investments suggesting the opposite happens in practice. The area circled on the right hand side shows a big dip in the US share market in...
We all want to live as long as possible, right? Yet many of us worry that we will outlive our nest egg, potentially scrimping and saving throughout the extra years that medical science and healthy living have made possible. Longevity risk is the adverse financial implications...
This article is last of a series aimed to address some of the common questions regarding investing in New Zealand residential property. I hope the information provided will be useful to readers when contemplating financial decisions. Note the information provided is not personalised financial advice...
Imagine winning lotto – something most of us do when we purchase that luckiest of tickets allowing us to drift into a pipe dream and consider what we would do if we actually did win! The extended overseas trip, no wait for the new car,...
Through our financial advice and portfolio management we help our clients to make money, but on its own money is just a ledger entry or a pile of notes and coins. It is how money enables us to live the life we want that counts. A richer...
by Jean Strock AFA On Friday 15 July, I attended XX The High Cost Chromosome, a forum hosted by the Retirement Policy and Research Centre at the University of Auckland Business School. The forum examined the financial and retirement issues facing women who over their lifetimes tend...
Steve Baker, Authorised Financial Adviser, Saturn Advice The UK’s Brexit vote has wide ranging implications in a number of areas. In this article, Steve investigates what this might mean for UK Final Salary Pension Schemes. The UK Pensions Minister, Ros Altmann, has been quoted as saying that...
Buy Low and Sell High is the holy grail of investment strategies, yet one that is notoriously difficult to get right. Few successfully predict the ‘bottom’ of the market and you risk being out of the market altogether when those early rallies occur. Rather than trying...
