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We invite you your friends family and colleagues to join us on Saturday the 24th August 2013. As “A Night at the Mess” draws closer we are delighted to announce that STAN ALVES, OAM AFL coach, elite athlete, media personality, entrepreneur and successful businessman, will join us on the night as Key Note speaker. ANGIE…
Firstly, I have made very public my issue with tinkering with superannuation and we are happy to see Treasurer Swan has avoided changes that would reduce incentives and benefits of the superannuation system. We endorse a sensible introduction of changes to encourage people to save for their retirement with greater certainty. Myself and the FPA encourages…
A measure of a company’s financial leverage. Debt/equity ratio is equal to long-term debt divided by common shareholders’ equity. Typically the data from the prior fiscal year is used in the calculation. Investing in a company with a higher debt/equity ratio may be riskier, especially in times of rising interest rates, due to the additional…
With daily trading volumes of more than $4 trillion, the forex markets exert a tremendous force on the global economy. What’s more, they offer regular people who seek reliable investment returns the chance to enrich themselves without suffering outsize losses or taking undue risks. The tremendous liquidity of the global forex markets ensures that investors…
As you may already be aware, this morning the Labor Government announced its proposed superannuation reforms. Whilst the Government ‘Joint Media Release’ will help quell some of the speculation in the press about what changes Labor was going to announce in respect of superannuation in the upcoming Federal Budget, it has raised a number of…
Following a long period of growth and stellar performance, the last five years has seen the Australian sharemarket struggle to maintain its status as the asset class of choice for Australian investors. A panel of equity experts at the Association of Financial Advisers 2012 National Conference discussed the factors which have influenced the performance of…
There are three kinds of retirees, according to a financial planner quoted in a recent personal finance feature in The Wall Street Journal. These three types of retirees are tagged: “Cliff divers” who fully retire upon reaching what they regard as the normal retirement age. “Worker bees” who keep delaying retirement and work well into…
10 traps in SMSF borrowing advice SMSF trustees will show even stronger interest in borrowing for direct property in their portfolios in 2013, according to Peter Townsend of Townsends Business and Corporate Lawyers. Demand for advice on SMSF borrowing grew in 2012 but should grow further this year as investors look to…
