I came across a ‘financial advisory’ website this morning and wondered how many people find themselves in a similar predicament to one investor desperately seeking some answers.
This particular investor had sold all of her stock holdings in a panic quite near the recent market low (some call it the bottom…) and transferred what’s left of her dwindling nest-egg into bonds to try and recoup her losses more rapidly. To her horror, share prices have since boomed and treasury bonds have taken a dive. Now in even more of a panic, she’s wondering if it’s too late to sell her bonds and jump back into the stock market. Read the rest of this entry
Have you ever imagined what life would be like if you were financially free? Almost everyone has at some point, but most people never really stop to think about what it means. It can mean different things to different people, so before you begin searching for the key to financial freedom, it may be a worthwhile exercise to examine what the concept really means to you. 
Interest rates in Australia have not been as low as they are right now since the 1960’s, house prices have fallen, falling or come to a temporary stand still, we’re not paying anywhere near what we paid last year for petrol and most of us have free money in our pockets right now thanks to Mr Rudd.
