Blog articles relating to investing and wealth management.
Before you hand over your money to a financial planner, make sure you are going to receive independent financial advice. Because if it’s not independent financial advice, then the financial planning advice can’t be considered unbiased or impartial.So what is independent financial advice, and how do you ensure that you receive conflict-free advice?
Sometimes you have a question about a financial matter and just want an answer; not a relationship. It is for this reason that Cornish Wealth Management offers one-off financial advice. One-off advice is also known as ‘situational advice’, ‘episodic advice’ or ‘event driven advice’. And we offer two types of one-off advice – ‘general advice’…
Shock horror. Whilst talk of the biggest ever fall on the Dow Jones makes for good headlines, a 4.6% is a big one day drop, but it is far from a ‘crash’.
Before you part with your money, it pays to look into the financial details; or have someone do it for you. Platinum Asset Management (PTM) is a widely respected fund manager and is listed on the ASX. It has recently been announced that they are starting a Listed Investment Company (LIC) called Platinum Asia Investments.…
Lowering portfolio costs is an obvious focus for investors, and ETF’s are becoming an increasingly popular investment vehicle to achieve this. Unfortunately the true cost of ETF’s is often more than most investors are led to believe.
I am sure you have heard of Warren Buffett, who is generally considered to be the most successful living investor. He is CEO, chairman and president of the US listed investment company Berkshire Hathaway; which as of last night had a share price of US$187,750. Due to Buffett’s phenomenal investing success, (over the last 49…
I don’t mind that the additional tax on tobacco will take a packet of cigarettes past $25, after all smoking imposes a cost on society. However the reverse is true when people save their money, which is why a tax on savings would have to be one of the more bizarre concepts thought up –…
Conventional wisdom dictates that your portfolio should be diversified, but as this article suggests, a ‘Diversified Fund’ may not be the best way for you to achieve diversification.
Financial Planning is a heavily Government (ASIC) regulated business providing individually personalised advice to clients including protecting and growing their wealth. As a financial planner it appears extremely inequitable to see far bigger transactions occur with far fewer compliance hurdles or disclosures such as direct property investing. A real estate agent does not have to…
It is clear that managed funds offer greater diversification than most people can achieve through direct share investing. Whilst there are many thousands of managed funds they can essentially be broken down to two groups, “active” and “passive”. Active managed funds attempt to outperform the benchmark index through wise stock selection whilst ‘passive’ managed funds…