Last month we noted a case of comparison gone wrong within Australia’s largest superfund, Australian super. An advocate of active investing had lined up the performance of Australian Super’s actively managed balanced fund and compared it to Australian Super’s lower cost indexed diversified fund to make the case that active management is the true gold […]
If you’re a fan of confusion and violence and have a spare four hours up your sleeve one day, you may want to sit down to watch a game of American football. For an Australian it might be somewhat of an acquired taste, but the NFL season starts again soon in the US, if you’re […]
From the 6th to 8th of August 2018, we held our semi-annual conference in Cairns at The Shangri-La Hotel. Bob Fowler opened the conference, welcoming several first time conference attendees, some prospective advisers and a large number of existing FYG Planners conference faces. Attending for the first time were Mark Baldwin of Baldwin Financial Services and Mandy Mellor […]
No doubt you’ve heard the news. Two of Australia’s oldest media companies are merging. Nine and Fairfax have decided for the sake of their futures to combine, or as some have said Nine will be swallowing Fairfax. There are implications for the media in Australia and the announcement provoked many reactions in the last week. […]
“But I want it, I want it, I need it!” Paul had gone to visit his sister and his nephew. He’d walked into a financial battle between Mother and 11-year-old son over the game Fortnite. You might say she had a fiduciary duty to the young lad in moments of madness, but he wasn’t having […]