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29Aug 2018

Finesse Financial Advisers Join FYG Planners

August 29, 2018

FYG Planners are pleased to announce Finesse Financial Advisers of Western Sydney have joined FYG’s privately owned financial services licensee. Finesse Financial Advisers is a privately owned financial planning practice operated by Genene Wilson. Genene sees her role as facilitator, educator, mentor and financial coach. Throughout her career Genene has worked with many families and enjoys making a difference […]

18Aug 2018

What Is Balanced?

August 18, 2018

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 […]

11Aug 2018

In a World of Reactions Be a Belichick

August 11, 2018

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 […]

09Aug 2018

FYG Planners Conference Cairns 2018

August 9, 2018

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 […]

04Aug 2018

Fairfax, Nine & Your Money

August 4, 2018

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. […]