Posts Tagged ‘#adelaidefinancialplanning’
Confusing Luck With Skill Maybe Detrimental To Your Retirement Years
Confusing luck with skill can leave you high and dry in retirement. Let me explain how luck, not skill played a part in your’s truly still being in one piece today. Risk, Luck, Skill or Plain Stupidity Back when I attended University in Ballarat, you could say I did some dumb things… In my late…
Read MoreHow to stop investment biases ruining your retirement?
Would you like a short-cut? To reduce the number of errors your mind has control over. The biggest risk to your retirement is not market movements nor inflation. We explored cognitive biases which affect your financial decisions in our previous post. You can read the post by clicking here>> Repurposing emotion for more favourable outcomes!…
Read MoreThe uncomfortable truth about your biases which will haunt you in retirement!
Are you uncertain about your retirement plans? Like most, COVID-19 has infected many retirement plans. No matter the amount of money you have, it’s affected, everyone. Whether it be the way you invest. The timing of your retirement. Or a complete rethink about the retirement you had planned. Even the assumptions you based your plan…
Read MoreDangers of Drifting vs Benefit of Decisions Towards Retirement
Hands down, the most asked questions are “how much money do I need for retirement?” and “will I be ok?”, normally code for will I run out of money in retirement. The simple answer, it depends… It depends on the retirement you have in mind. But, here’s the thing, many leave the planning till…
Read MoreTrends changing retirement planning forever!
COVID-19 disruption…a disruption that will change the way we live forever. It’s affected everything we do. From how we work, educate our kids and retirement planning to name a few. We were seeing these trends pick up pace before COVID-19 changed life the way we knew it. Forcing us into isolation. Forcing us to change…
Read MoreHow to nail your Retirement Plan in a Crisis?
The world is crazy right now! If retirement is on the horizon it can feel a little like landing a fighter jet on an aircraft carrier in the middle of a storm. One minute your thinking ahead, planning out your retirement. The next minute it all changes as you watch it turned on its head.…
Read More10 Commandments of Fearless Investing!
Investing can be a fearful thing to do. After all, the last thing you want is losing the money you’ve worked so hard for. Now more than ever is no time to be fearful. As Warren Buffet quotes in times like these: “be fearful when people are greedy and greedy when people are fearful” The…
Read MoreRetirement Action Plan
Retirement Action Plan Challenging times call for a calm and measured review. A time where everything you know about your investing journey has been challenged. Maybe you’re thinking the retirement you were planning is now of reach. Perhaps, your thinking about ramping up your efforts. Or maybe you’re looking to take advantage of the current…
Read MoreMountain in a Hurricane!
What’s one to do when the world we live in is turned upside down in a matter of weeks? Life as we know it has changed forever. Only a month ago, investment markets were at all-time highs. A few weeks later and COVID-19 has blown up investment markets. Retirement plans decimated. Investment portfolios hammered. The…
Read MoreHow to be Unshakable in times of Uncertainty!
The world has changed forever. Coronavirus has taken the world by the scruff of the neck. Fear is spreading. Panic is real. Experiencing unprecedented actions by governments around the world. Major events canceled. Travel restrictions. Schools being shut down. Self-isolation. And then financial markets collapse right in front of your eyes… The shock you…
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