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What is My Investor Profile?
- By Jaskarn Pawar
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Someone's investor profile can incorporate many different aspects of their lifestyle. These can include a person's personality, family, finances, future goals, past experiences and knowledge of investing. An investor profile can be defined as a general attitude towards investing.
The holy writ of investment
- By Lesley Parker
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Follow these 10 commandments and thou shalt not be lost in a financial wilderness, writes Lesley Parker.
Don't always trust the label
- By John Kavanagh
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Confusion reigns supreme when it comes to the terminology used to describe super funds.
For a layman the terminology 'Recession' signifies business dropping for six consecutive months. However, the exact definition of the term would be that a recession marks a period of temporary economic decline during which trade and industrial activity are reduced, generally identified by a fall in the Gross Domestic Product or GDP for two successive quarters. During times of recession, one notices a significant change in the lifestyle of people.
The term 'averaging down' (or dollar cost averaging) defines a strategy that involves investing additional amounts in a financial instrument or asset, if it declines significantly in price after the original investment is made.
An eye on your best interests
- By John Kavanagh
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The consumer watchdog, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, is concerned that some financial institutions may be misleading consumers in the promotion of high-interest online savings accounts.
Beat the bank account
- By Martin Roth
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Investors seeking a reasonable return on their money in 2009 would appear to have few choices. Bank interest rates are falling and the property and stock markets remain weak and volatile.
How to arrest your super seizure
- By David Potts
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Thought your declining super balance was beyond your influence? Be proactive and make your wealth work for you, writes David Potts.
With interest rates being the lowest since 2003, more cuts in sight and the first home buyer’s grant still doubling to $14 000, it is the prime opportunity for ‘first-timers’ to take the big step into home-ownership.
Robert Projeski, managing director of Australian Mortgage Options offers a few pointers to consider before making an offer of purchase for a property.
There's nothing like a financial crisis to bring out the "talking heads" in the media. As markets toss wildly up and down, people are looking for information and answers, so financial stories have jumped out of the business sections and onto the top of the news. But, too many experts by far are skirting the real issues and giving us only the "pat answers" that don't satisfy the real personal concerns of people like you and me.
How do you feel about investing in tobacco, pornography or animal testing? Do you want your hard-earned cash to fund repressive regimes, support exploitation of labour in developing countries or contribute to environmental destruction?
Ticking all the portfolio boxes
- By David Potts
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The answer to the asset allocation puzzle is to match your investment goals to your risk tolerance.
Do decisions about where to spend or invest your money make you paralyzed? Take fear and stress out of the decision-making process by increasing your knowledge in three key areas.
Do you have broken or discarded gold jewelry you not longer wear? Now may be the time to cash in on the current gold rush. With the price of gold exceeding the $1000 an ounce benchmark, an errant earring or broken gold chain could add up to a significant sum.
Investment success will depend on how you manage your investments. So lets investigate one of the specific criteria your investments should satisfy to ensure you are successful.
One of the key criteria to astute investing is to consider how and when you will take your profits...
Learn How to Invest
- By Clint Maher
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These days there are literally thousands of ways in which to invest your (or someone else's) hard earned money. Before you commit though, have you taken the time to actually learn how to invest? Have you taken the time to do due diligence and not relied on what someone else has advised?
When you are new to investing you may have little or no funds with which to invest with. Let's take a look at several ways to get access to money so you can begin your investment career sooner rather than later.
With some 4.1 million baby boomers due to reach retirement within the next few years it is imperative for many to look at boosting their super and retirement income. That is the opinion of Wealth Within Chief Analyst Dale Gillham, who said many imminent retirees will be asset rich but cash flow poor.