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Innovation Spares No One

October 4, 2017

If you’re an Oasis fan you’ll know who Liam Gallagher is. If not, at one stage Liam and his brother Noel fronted one of the biggest bands on the planet – Oasis. Due to creative differences (regular punch ups), Oasis broke up in 2009 with the brothers going their separate ways. While the pair have […]

Take a look at this chart. See that blue line at the bottom? That isn’t the isn’t the horizontal or x-axis. It’s a price chart showing the growth of the Dow Jones in the US since 2012 – 71%.  Confused yet?  The black line is the monthly bitcoin price in the same time frame. In […]

Deliverance From Bad Insurance

September 11, 2017

If you’ve ever seen the classic film Deliverance you’ll know it’s the ultimate insurance advertisement. The character of Lewis, played by Burt Reynolds, begins the film proudly declaring, “I never been insured in my life. I don’t believe in insurance. There’s no risk.”   Movie fate ensures the canoeing trip Lewis and his friends take is […]

On the 4th and 5th of September 2017, we held our semi-annual conference in Canberra at The Vibe Hotel. Bob Fowler opened the conference, welcoming six first time conference attendees among the large number of regular conference faces. Attending for the first time as an FYG adviser was Colin Benvenuto of Emerge Financial, who’d previously visited us at the last conference in Coogee Beach. The […]

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 highlighted the media and their incessant hectoring about an imminent correction. With nothing much happening in the markets they fell into the […]