Reading Time: 3 Minutes Howdy all! Recently I received a question from a loyal reader named JD regarding a cheat-sheet of personal finance habits everyone can follow. Good money habits start with keeping what you’ve earnt, which leaves more $$$ left-over for investing! Here’s a quick list, enjoy! 1. The most basic one, is to start paying better attention to your finances. MrsFrugalSamurai has come leaps and bounds with her personal finance habits since our dating days. Back then… well at the risk of a frypan to my face, let’s just say it wasn’t… ideal. But now, she’s turned into a money whizz! Keeping track of her expenses ensures she…
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Coronavirus Investment Strategies – 4 Ways to Profit During Volatile Periods
Reading Time: 4 Minutes Buenos Dias! Welcome back peeps. Hope everyone’s self-isolation is going well! Anyhow, I read an interesting fact this week. After the epic rollercoaster that was the first two weeks of March, the markets have come roaring back from recent lows. So much so, that people are speculating that a bottom has been found, and are looking for ways to jump in. I mean, just look at this chart this week, courtesy of respected commentator Alan Kohler: Two things jump out from this. Firstly, I would hazard a guess and state that the ones who punched in that search term are newbies to the stock market and…
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March Net Wealth Update
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Strewth, let’s not have too many months like March 2020 aye? Just negativity all round. It’s only in the last couple of weeks that we’ve had some sort of calm, courtesy of governments around the world throwing trillions to solve the crisis. For context, one trillion is 1,000,000,000,000. Anyhow, personally the new wealth has been impacted of course. The bulk of my equity is in real estate – which hasn’t yet been affected as much as the share market. But it will. Give it time. I wrote about it last time (read here). Not only values, but of course, tenancy arrears to come as well. Sigh,…
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Blueprint For Investing During The Coronavirus Pandemic
Reading Time: 4 Minutes I’m seeing a lot of questions on social media about “Has the market bottomed?” or “What should I buy?” Now more than ever, as the markets whip-saw, more and more people are paying attention as their investment and retirement balances are smashed 20%, 30%, some even more… all in the space of a month. The speed of the market decline to form this bear market is unprecedented. So of course, there are many folks, myself included who are sitting on the sidelines, champing at the bit, ready to charge in, and make a killing. But I think we are all asking the wrong questions, or at…
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The History Of Pandemics, COVID-19 In Perspective
Reading Time: 2 Minutes Geez, some of the news just goes from bad to worse right guys? Stay safe, stay vigilant and above all, wash those hands! Despite all the chaos and disruption and FEAR, I thought perhaps we could take a step back and ask why? Why is this happening? And more importantly, why is it happening now? The answer is… … It’s always happened. By this I mean pandemics, and viruses and natural illnesses have always been a part of our history. Indeed, some pandemics have been far, far worse than COVID-19. Our friends at Visual Capitalist constructed a brilliant post on the history of pandemics to give…
