Recently I had a nice email from a subscriber asking can I please explain the types of funds there are and what they mean. So, as concisely as possible I’m going to try to answer this question today.
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How does a teenager create a strong financial future?
Olivia spent the school holidays working hard and she has found herself with that wonderful problem, too much cash sitting in the bank. In this blog post, I detail a strategy to show her how to make her hard earned money work for her and create a strong financial future for herself.
End of Year Spruce Up
I spend a lot of time at my computer and my “household spreadsheet” is often open and it was while I was looking at this that I thought perhaps it was timely that I have a bit of a financial spring clean.
Updates and Things of Interest
A bit of change this week! I’ve curated this post with a few updates and interesting things for you to check out.
Is Commercial Property Investment a good idea?
More people than I can count ask me whether I would buy a rental property, by which they mean a single house which I would rent out. Buying a slice of the commercial building rental market is a much more interesting proposition.
Explain that graph!
This week I had another email from a subscriber. When she is checking up on her investment what the heck do the charts and graphs mean?
Part 2 - SmartShares for Kids!
Last week I wrote about how I had moved my daughter's investment from an ANZ Managed Fund to SmartShares. I was pretty happy with my decision. After I had made the switch I received a number of comments from my super clever subscribers and they said I had made a bit of an ERROR in going with SmartShares instead of SuperLife for my daughter.
SmartShares for Kids!
The one thing that is missing on the busy school calendar is of course learning about money management. For sure they learn how to add, subtract, multiply and divide but they don’t learn how to budget, live within their means, save and invest. Where are the kids going to learn about this stuff then?
Insight into Sharesight
One of my subscribers sent me an email telling me that I really should look into Sharesight because it is an excellent tool for gauging how my SmartShares are tracking. What? Is my excel spreadsheet not good enough?