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July 27, 2020August 3, 2020Daniel Moradian

What makes things go up and down

Even in a pre-covid-19 world, my brother would always ask me why the market (and more relevantly) individual stocks would often defecate themselves. He did not say ‘defecate’. ‘Defecate’ is very much a euphemism here. Everyone’s talking about large dips or rallies in the market these days but if you distance yourself from the market […]

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June 25, 2020Daniel Moradian

Negative and positive gearing

Negative and positive gearing are very popular topics, especially when we talk about residential investment. Generally speaking, if your investment is negatively geared, then from a finance perspective you’ve likely made a poor investment decision. It’s only from a tax perspective that you may actually derive some benefits. However it’s very important to understand that […]

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March 12, 2020August 25, 2020Daniel Moradian

The coronavirus and global markets

Unless you’ve been living under a rock lately, you’ll know that the world has been gripped by a global disease outbreak dubbed COVID-19. A couple weeks ago, global markets started to react to the outbreak. Why are markets tanking?* For the most part – unfathomable stupidity. I genuinely believe that fear of the virus will […]

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December 9, 2019December 9, 2019Daniel Moradian

Buying your first home – Part 2 of 2

Imagine you were in the market for a pair of birkenstocks. Imagine it was your very first pair. Now imagine the salesperson at the store said that they were running a promotion. The salesperson tells you that all first-birkenstock buyers qualify for a 5% discount. Well that sounds pretty appealing doesn’t it? Not really. Because […]

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November 12, 2019November 12, 2019Daniel Moradian

Buying your first home – Part 1 of 2

Let’s settle the age old debate. Home ownership or smashed avo and bottomless mimosas? Young Australians are becoming more frugal these days and it excites me to say that financial literacy is improving. However, home ownership rates in Australia reached an all time low in 2016 and unfortunately, this trend is getting worse. But we’re […]

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