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By Matt Hern on July 23, 2009
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) are like traditional managed funds (which you may be familiar with) but they are instead traded on a stock exchange like other company stocks.
For do-it-yourself investors it is handy to know about ETFs and how they work. It is also important to understand how they are different to Listed Investment Companies [...]
Posted in Growing | Tagged investment, Share markets
By Matt Hern on July 13, 2009
One of the messages I teach is to “Do What You Love; Outsource The Rest“. When it comes to direct investment in residential property it can be tricky to implement this due to the presence of too many biased spruikers. Neil Jenman refers to them as “selling machines” in his insightful article, which I recommend [...]
Posted in Getting Advice, Property | Tagged investment, property
By Matt Hern on July 1, 2009
Do you want to create wealth but your eyes glaze over with number talk?
Would you like ideas to manage your money in a way that doesn’t take much time and doesn’t require you to read the business news every day?
Do you like the idea of outsourcing to a professional but are not sure how?
If so, [...]
Posted in Growing, Planning, Saving | Tagged free stuff, infopreneurs, investment, Managing your money
By Matt Hern on April 7, 2009
At some time during the recent bear market did you sell most or all your investments to cash? Or maybe have you been holding out on your regular investment plan because you haven’t felt comfortable? Watch the video below for some insights into how to decide when to start investing again.
Posted in Featured, Growing | Tagged behavioural finance, Global financial crisis, investment, market timing, video
By Matt Hern on October 18, 2008
“Buy Amercian. I am.” declared Warren Buffet in an opinion piece in the New York Times on October 17th, 2008. This article is written by Warren Buffet and I highly recommend you read it here.
In his own personal account he says that he has been buying American stocks. He also says that people who currently [...]
Posted in Growing | Tagged Global financial crisis, investment, success formulas
By Matt Hern on October 15, 2008
With the sharemarket hangover fairy still bashing around inside our heads it can be tempting to proclaim “never again will I drink from that font of wealth creation.” But where’s the fun in that?
It’s time to continuously remind ourselves to take a strategic view and keep a long term perspective that matches the period we [...]
Posted in Growing | Tagged Global financial crisis, investment
By Matt Hern on October 10, 2008
“Investors wiped another 5 per cent off the Australian share market…”
So was the opening sentence of the front page article of The West Australian newspaper yesterday (9th October 2008).
It should have read:
“Anxious, emotionally fragile, short sighted sellers wiped…”
Movement in the share market index is based on actual trades completed. For every seller there is a [...]
| Tagged behavioural finance, Global financial crisis, investment
By Matt Hern on July 16, 2008
In the Wealth section of today’s edition of The Australian there is a very useful article by Don Stammer summarising some of the great wealth creation wisdom. Cut through the noise and focus on the fundamental, timeless principles of creating wealth. Read Don Stammer’s article: “Wise words: the 10 most important investment sayings“.
| Tagged investment, success formulas
By Matt Hern on June 29, 2008
To create wealth is it better to do it yourself or outsource? Is an active approach better than passive? If you do outsource some parts, how do you know what to outsource?
In this interview on Wake Up WA, I answer these questions with a unique model I have developed. Watch the video now.
Posted in Getting Advice | Tagged financial advice, investment, video
By Matt Hern on May 30, 2008
“Fortune favours the brave.” Investing more aggressively is one of the key behaviours of money masters in creating long term wealth. But when the share market falls suddenly and significantly many people cannot contemplate such a behaviour.
To help you be comfortable to invest more aggressively you need to invest time educating yourself about the short [...]
Posted in Growing | Tagged investment, risk tolerance, statistics
By Matt Hern on April 23, 2008
In The Australian today, Peter Switzer writes a good article that extracts fundamental lessons for us all from the recent loss of $100 million by Sydney lawyer, Chris Murphy. Read the full article here.
When seeking investment information it is easy to be attracted to the neon lights and fanciful claims of certain investments. But it is [...]
Posted in Behaviour | Tagged gearing, investment
By Matt Hern on March 20, 2008
Standard & Poor’s and the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) recently changed the name of the S&P/ASX 200 Property Trusts Index to the S&P/ASX 200 A-REIT Index. The name change follows the ASX and Property Council of Australia’s renaming of Australian listed property trusts as Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (A-REITs) to align with global practice.
REIT [...]
Posted in Property | Tagged investment, statistics, tools
By Matt Hern on March 20, 2008
In his latest article, Robin Bowerman of Vanguard Investments Australia suggests: “There is one clear lesson investors can learn from the recent sharemarket turmoil – the smart way to invest is to keep things simple.”
It is an excellent article that discusses behavioural finance and draws on research from Steve Utkus, the head of Vanguard’s US [...]
| Tagged investment, video, wealth mindset
By Matt Hern on February 10, 2008
Newspapers and magazines are full of advertisements for seminars on systems and products to help you get rich fast. The ads generally are full of testimonials from people who allegedly made a killing in months, not years – and it was soooo easy. Contracts for Difference (CFDs) have been one of the recent fashionable tools [...]
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By Matt Hern on January 29, 2008
Morningstar and IFSA (The Investment and Financial Services Association) have combined to publish an interesting article that helps one keep recent volatile markets in perspective.
It may not be the first time that you have heard of one or more of the lessons but you may find that the current share market volatility has changed your [...]
| Tagged investment, risk tolerance
