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Retirement Thinking

July 16, 2014
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Despite (or perhaps because of) the incessant noise churned out by the financial media in relation to saving for our retirements, data continues to show that individuals are falling short in that department.
For example, according to the 2014 Retirement Confidence Survey by the Employee Benefit Research Institute […]

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Football and Finance

June 23, 2014
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We are in the middle of one of the greatest sporting events on earth, the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Like many kids, I wanted to be professional footballer (as in, soccer) when I grew up – unfortunately, the real world indicated otherwise. Still, the tournament has allowed me to […]

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Educating Our Youth

May 13, 2014
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The Wall Street Journal recently highlighted an excellent initiative by the Charles Schwab Foundation in relation to personal finance education. Below is the piece:

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz, 54 years old, didn’t have a lot of money growing up. What she did have was a role model in […]

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Financial Biases You Didn’t Realise You Had

February 27, 2014
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Research over the last couple of decades has shown that as much as the finance system assumes that we, as individual investors, are rational, the reality is we are certainly not. The dotcom bubble and the global financial crisis certainly reinforce the fact.

A key consideration in this […]

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