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Important Questions To Consider When Investing
Sunday, August 23, 2020
If you are ready to start investing, here are some important questions to consider when deciding where to invest and what to invest in:
3 Investment Insights to boost your portfolio this quarter
Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Investment Insights - The drivers of return.
Financial Planning and the Shawshank Redemption
Monday, September 2, 2019
Shawshank Redemption the classic Prison Movie recently turned up on offer to watch on NZ Netflix. I love that movie. One of the best of all time in my humble opinion. For those that have never watched it Andy Dufresne is imprisoned for the murder of his wife and her lover. Long story short (spoiler alert!) he gets out and manages a sizeable financial windfall in the process. His best pal Red narrates that he blew town with the better part of $370,000 dollars!
Understanding dollar cost averaging
Monday, March 19, 2018
One approach to entering investment markets is over an extended period of time – for example five or even ten years. Such an approach is called dollar cost averaging. Dollar cost averaging simply means investing the same fixed amount of money into the market on a regular basis, for example monthly or quarterly.
Share market correction
Wednesday, February 7, 2018
You will have seen media coverage of share market movements since last Friday – pleasing to see hyperbole is alive and well!
Dollar Cost Averaging
Thursday, September 24, 2015
If you are looking to swap your hard earned money for an investment which rises and falls such as stock market funds, your biggest issue is often one of timing. If you buy your units when markets are high only to have them reduce in value, it will take longer for you to recoup your losses than if you had bought for a lower price further on down the track. If you delay, markets could rise further in the meantime. The difficulty is that the perfect time to buy is only ever clear in hindsight.