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What the Downturn Means For You
THIS is not a good sign. I’ve come to understand that there’s a direct correlation between me being in the media and the share market crashing. It’s uncanny. The good news is that, while everyone’s...
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Harden Up
I’M no hippy. But if I were in New York, or Athens, I’d seriously consider camping out at their ‘occupy’ protests. Why? To shout against a political class that has squandered the wealth of future...
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If It Bleeds, It Leads
NATHAN is a mate of mine. He’s been angry since the early 90s. He spends his day listening to redneck talkback radio, and each time I see him we have the same conversation: Nathan: “Things aren’t...
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Why Dumb People Are Often The Smartest
I received an email from Alexandra this week: “I had a bad feeling about him from the start.” She wasn’t about to sleep with him. After all, she was (more or less) happily married. But she and her...
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Why You Need a Good Financial Advisor
This week I spoke with Tony Delroy about how important it is to have a good financial advisor, and how many people under 35 will never be able to afford a home. Let me know your thoughts. Scott Click...
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Why I’m Not Married
This column is going to come back and bite me. You see, right now my mum is reading this; she’s a proud country woman with simple goals … all she wants is for me to get married and have kids. A few...
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Barefooter Questions Answered
While the Easter bunny is dropping off chocolate eggs this weekend, I’m focusing on your nest eggs. Here are five fat-free questions that hit my inbox in the first quarter of this year – and my...
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My ‘Alternate Budget’
Click here to view Scott’s 2012 Budget Breakdown Next Tuesday night at 7.30pm sharp I want you to do me a favour: turn off your television. Sure it’s tempting to watch the latest battle between a...
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Here’s my No B.S breakdown of what you need to know – and focus on – from last night’s federal budget. Click here to view Scott’s ‘alternative budget’ plan Start treading your own path with the FREE...
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The Fear of Losing Money
Let me tell you a little secret: in all the years I’ve been coming to Omaha to hear Warren Buffett speak, he says the same thing every time. He even trots out the same old lines, like “be greedy when...
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I’m a young’ish’ Gen Y girl and I can tell you for sure that nobody in my friendship group has ever mentioned the idea of visiting a financial planner or advisor. I just can’t see where their customers...
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Hi Scott, While I agree there is change in financial planning industry and should occur I think you might find one thing interesting. Our business is offering the choice between percentage based and...
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Hi Jamie, I’m a Gen Y’er and I run my own Financial Planning business, what I tend to find is that any people I see our age generally don’t feel they have the need for advice at this stage of their...
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Good to see the Snout-in-Trough brigade getting their just desserts! I always found it morally offensive that they wanted (expected) a percentage of my assets up front, which they’d had no part in...
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