Well, there it is. The correction that we’ve been told has been coming every month since January 2017, finally arrived. Over? Probably not, but it was needed. Needed? Yes needed. Nothing in life comes for free. 2017 was an extremely rare year where the entrants enjoyed a free pass to the park and none of […]
The allure of the self-managed super fund is control and freedom. The freedom to choose the path to retirement riches. There’s also the freedom to make mistakes and according to a new report those mistakes have cost SMSF investors $103 billion over the past 10 years. Delving into Rainmaker Information’s report “At What Price: The […]
The reason our AFSL remains outside the structure of a large bank or institution is because our goal is to allow advisers to provide the best financial advice to their clients. Instead, FYG Planners remain a privately owned Australian Financial Services Licensee (AFSL), managed by a board of current financial advisers with a commitment to the […]
Economic Overview Once again, the investment strategy of maintaining discipline and holding for the long term won out over reacting to media forecasts and predictions from hyperventilating partisans. In January 2017 CNBC suggested Wall Street was the most bearish they’d been in 12 years, as it turned out, the global economy continued to strengthen as […]
The new year has revealed a few cracks in the already questionable property investment strategy of placing little equity down, using an interest only loan, desktop revaluing the property ASAP, before ripping out that equity to buy another property. It’s something that works, as long as the property market continues to move higher and lenders […]