Investment Management
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Special Report for Family Business
We’ve spoken with family business owners and specialist family business advisors across both Australia and the US to uncover the most pressing issues facing you today—the ones that keep you up at night. This Special Report guides you through a…
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Global Investing: Looking beyond our market.
Everybody loves the comforts of home, but investors who become too anchored to familiar territory can end up with a very narrow view of the world. Jim Parker is the Vice President of DFA Australia Limited and he helps explain…
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Reducing the high cost of opinions
Every year you’ll hear a wide range of financial predictions from a range of experts. What do these predictions really mean – and just how many of them come true? The results should NOT surprise you. Do these headlines /…
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Investment picks for uncertain times
One of Australia’s top financial planners says its important to block out the short-term volatility of the sharemarket and the added noise of an election campaign and focus on three- to five-year investment horizons. Block out the “noise” of a grinding…
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The dirty habits of being cashed up!
Just because you are income wealthy does not mean you are set up for life. There’s an old saying, look after the cents as the dollars will look after themselves. This means, watch the little purchases – these quickly add…
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The Value of Patience
One legendary investor, in an interview a few years ago, was asked to name the single most important thing he had learned over 70 years in the markets. He replied with a single word: “patience”. Patience can be hard because…
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An Investment Philosophy approved by Warren Buffett
Our Investment Philosophy gets a huge endorsement from billionaire investor Warren Buffett! My advice to the trustee couldn’t be more simple: Put 10% of the cash in short-term government bonds and 90% in a very low-cost S&P 500 index fund. (I…
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Diversification – Your Best Friend
Can you predict which investments are going to outperform next year? Maybe you believe the property market will outperform the share market next year. What we believe is that it is exceedingly difficult to predict future returns and the following…
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Stock picking your way to poor performance
Recently we have had some client conversations justifying our position that trying to predict which investments will provide superior performance long term will provide a substandard result. We continually assert that there is an abundance of information that indicates that the…
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Picking Yesterdays Winner
Many people think they can discern patterns in market returns. If this year property was the best bet, next year it will be shares. But if you chart the returns of various asset classes over the years, it’s very hard…