You awake from your deep slumber after countless weeks in lockdown patiently awaiting your turn for the vaccine. You’ve saved quite a bit of money during the anti-social long haul and you decide you want to invest some of it. You try to think how you might be able to take advantage of the status […]
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Share investing 101: The basics
I was 21 when I placed my first trade. There’s so much more I know today that I wish I knew back then and you too should definitely be looking to arm yourself with as much information as you can before you place your first trade. There’s no way we can cover everything you should […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dollar cost averaging
In an earlier article, Accumulating assets, we discussed our award-winning, ingenious get rich quick plan – buy low, sell less-low. Well, much like Patrick J. Adams in the hit legal drama which made lawyers seem cool (admittedly only to other lawyers), I’m a fraud. Yes, obviously it would be ideal to buy any asset at […]
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