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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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February 9, 2020February 9, 2020Daniel Moradian

Why saving is getting you nowhere

Let’s say you made a declaration to cut down on your routine smashed avo shenanigans because some rich prick told you that delicious green mush is the real reason you can’t afford to own real estate (#okboomer) and you’ve instead opted to set aside more of your fortnightly wages into a savings account to buy […]

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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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July 30, 2019July 31, 2019Daniel Moradian

Accumulating assets

One of the best pieces of advice I ever received early in my career was that if I wanted to be wealthy, I needed to focus less on growing my income and more on accumulating assets. In most OECD countries, this is true from both a finance and a tax perspective. Assets grow faster than […]

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