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By Matt Hern on February 28, 2010
Over half the people I speak to professionally list “self-employment” as one of their life goals. If you too dream of going out on your own or starting a business then I strongly recommend that you read “The E-myth Revisited” by Michal E. Gerber before you quit your job. Preferably you need to read The E-myth before you succumb to what Gerber calls ‘the Entrepreneurial Seizure’. Read my full review of this essential book.
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Posted in Self-employment (Business) | Tagged book reviews, newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on September 11, 2009
Have you ever thought you are not getting as far ahead financially as you think you should, but are not sure why? Then maybe one or more of these three behaviours may be the cause.
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Posted in Behaviour, Featured, Growing, Saving | Tagged newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on July 24, 2009
Today is Stress Down Day, to raise funds for Lifeline. As part of their promotion of Stress Down Day Lifeline conducted a Newspoll to discover what was stressing Australians.
The Newspoll found that two thirds of Australians are stressed about money, second only to being stressed about work. Does that include you?
The Lifeline poll reminded me [...]
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Posted in Behaviour, Featured, Planning | Tagged cashflow control, financial advice, newsletter archive, tools
By Matt Hern on June 11, 2009
The economic down turn and publicised retrenchments may have caused your mind to wonder “how will I cope if I lose my job?” Whether or not you are facing the potential of losing your job I recommend you seriously ask yourself “how long could I last on zero income?”
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Posted in Protecting | Tagged newsletter archive, Protecting, redundancy advice, safety nets
By Matt Hern on June 6, 2007
Oh the tragedy! On the front cover of yesterday’s edition of The West Australian newspaper was a story about a single Dad who had lost his life savings in the recent collapse of the property developer, Australian Capital Reserve. Sadly when I read such stories the empathetic part of me is quickly overrun by frustration. [...]
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Posted in Protecting | Tagged newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on May 8, 2007
This sixth article in the series on accelerated wealth creation summarises some other products you may have heard help you get rich fast. For example you may have heard of options & warrants, internally geared funds and capital protected funds.
Leveraged products for pussycats and lions
As sure as the sun sets in the west there will [...]
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Posted in Growing | Tagged gearing, newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on April 24, 2007
This fifth article in the series on accelerated wealth creation introduces margin lending, which many may have heard of but not know how to use it to create wealth.
Margin Lending
Margin Lending is a term you may know but perhaps it feels a little bit foreign or even spooky. Perhaps you’re imagining it’s something different to [...]
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Posted in Growing | Tagged gearing, margin lending, newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on April 10, 2007
I hope that you had a wonderful Easter. This fourth article in the series on accelerated wealth creation discusses using the underutilised equity in your home to create wealth.
On reading the title of this newsletter some readers may have asked “hang on, I thought Matt said your home is not an investment asset. So how [...]
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Posted in Growing | Tagged gearing, home equity, newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on March 27, 2007
This third article in the series on accelerated wealth creation provides an overview of gearing as a wealth creation strategy. Gearing is a strategy that enables you to leverage your income and equity, which may currently be under utilised.
Gearing: You’ve heard of it, but what is it really?
As one attendee at the IPWEA conference noted [...]
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Posted in Growing | Tagged gearing, newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on March 13, 2007
My last article was the first in a series on accelerated wealth creation and introduced some ways to identify lazy wealth creation. Many of the ways to crack the whip over lazy wealth creation require a high tolerance of risk. Or to put it another way, you need to be more of a tiger than [...]
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Posted in Growing | Tagged newsletter archive, risk profile, risk tolerance
By Matt Hern on February 27, 2007
Almost every day there is something in the news about the proposed takeover of Qantas by a consortium of private equity companies. This is one of a flurry of private equity bids in the past year. You may also have heard of bids related to Alinta, Coles, Channel Seven and Packer’s media assets.
Interestingly all offers [...]
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Posted in Growing | Tagged newsletter archive
By Matt Hern on August 29, 2006
To help you choose appropriate finance products I interviewed one of Perth’s top mortgage brokers, Damian Day of Ardent Mortgage Services, and asked him to share his top tips.
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Posted in Managing Debt | Tagged debt, newsletter archive
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