by The Positive Investor | Sep 14, 2017 | Behavioural Finance, Financial Independence, Investment Markets, Investments, Planning, Retirement, Wealth Management
I came across this nice blog post recently. An article that points out a common misconception many people have. That investment returns are the only piece to the retirement saving puzzle. As Julie Cazzin writes; sometimes saving is more important than spectacular...
by The Positive Investor | Sep 14, 2017 | Behavioural Finance, Investment Markets, Investments, Planning, Retirement, Wealth Management
From international tennis stars one week to the average mum and dad the next. The ABC’s 7:30 recently featured a story on victims of poor financial advice (investors duped by a noted investment spruiker) who are calling for reforms to protect anyone else from...
by The Positive Investor | Sep 14, 2017 | Behavioural Finance, Investment Markets, Investments, Planning, Retirement, Wealth Management
Every investor need to strike a balance between risk and return and within this decision your portfolio should be rebalanced to ensure you don’t stray from your preferred asset allocations....
by The Positive Investor | Sep 14, 2017 | Behavioural Finance, Investment Markets, Investments, Planning, Retirement, Wealth Management
There will always be good and bad years when investing. It’s important to remain disciplined and keep a long term view because many investors fail by selling out after the market has fallen and buying back in after the market has gone up....
by The Positive Investor | Sep 14, 2017 | Behavioural Finance, Investment Markets, Investments, Planning, Wealth Management
Being heavily concentrated in one asset is more gambling than investing. The solution is diversification and it is imperative to ensure your risk is spread across asset classes, sectors and countries....
by The Positive Investor | Sep 13, 2017 | Behavioural Finance, Investment Markets, Investments
In case you needed a reminder – the sharemarket does go down. It’s worth remembering this in a year which has so far been something of a rarity. Earlier in the year we noticed the media and their incessant hectoring about an imminent correction. With nothing much...