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Magellan Challenges Active Adviser Beliefs
Read more: Magellan Challenges Active Adviser BeliefsClick video to listen to story. If you didn’t know, Hamish Douglass is probably Australia’s best known fund manager and is the figurehead of one of the most recognisable funds management businesses in the country: Magellan Financial Group. For years his flagship global fund has outperformed the market based on his convictions. It has afforded him rockstar status, a cult like following with investors, and the ability to get his message almost unfiltered into the media as many of Australia’s finance journalists have acted as stenographers when reporting on his thoughts and comments. Until recently. Magellan’s stellar performance has evaporated…
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Supporting a person living with dementia
Read more: Supporting a person living with dementiaLiving with dementia can be unsettling and frustrating, but independence and quality of life can still be achieved with the right support and a few changes. With almost half a million people living with dementia in Australia, and another 1.6 million people involved in their care, it is likely that we are all impacted in some way. This week is Dementia Action week, putting a spotlight on how to support a person living with dementia as well as support for the carers. Understanding the experience of dementia, and making a few changes can have a beneficial impact on the person’s…
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The Greys of Ethical Awareness
Read more: The Greys of Ethical AwarenessYou’re out walking with your dog near a railway track. Behind you there’s a rumbling noise. Thundering down the track is a trolley, looking up ahead you can see the trolley is headed for a bridge with five workers on it. They will either be run over or jump to certain death. Beside you is a large switch. If you pull the switch, you will divert the trolley to a second track and another bridge. Only this bridge has a single worker on it who would face the same fate as the other workers. What do you do? Pull the…
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‘Low Risk’ Term Deposit Alternatives
Read more: ‘Low Risk’ Term Deposit AlternativesTough to earn a buck for nothing these days. While that’s always been the case for our labour, there was always the illusion of some free cream from our money in the bank. Illusions, being illusions, this wasn’t strictly true. There was always tax and inflation nipping back any real return for doing nothing. Illusions are comforting though. If an investor thought they were getting a good enough return, then they wouldn’t go out of their way to chase one. An RBA cash rate of 0.10% presents a whole new mind game for investors. Some of the more opportunistic types in the…
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Pondering Presidential market impacts
Read more: Pondering Presidential market impactsStock markets are pretty efficient at processing new information. Shocks, naturally, are unwelcome and it can take some time for markets to rationally analyse and understand the impacts of particular geopolitical events. Take the Brexit vote for example. On the day the vote was announced (June 24) the Australian sharemarket fell 3 per cent while the broader global sharemarket index was down even further. Three weeks later the Australian market was up 3 per cent and while the global market index did not recover as strongly it was at least back into positive territory. The initial surprise of the vote…
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