Talking Cents

Another sharemarket topic! (our favourite). In this episode we chat to Morgans Investment Advisor Brooke Gardener about Exchange Traded Funds. Brooke explains to us what ETFs are, how they differ to regular shares, the benefits/costs/risks involved with investing in ETFs and more!

Today we are joined with a special guest, Louise Walsh. Louise is the CEO of ASX listed companies FGG and FGX (known as the Future Generation Companies). If you haven’t heard of these companies before, they provide a way for you to expand your portfolio, have access to a range of great fund managers and instead of paying the usual 1% fees, this money goes towards a range of charities supporting Australian youth mental health and children at risk

Why do we hate losing money more than we like making it? Why will we hold on to an investment that is making a constant loss hoping it will go back up some day when we know we really should exit and put the money to better use somewhere else? Behavioural economics gives insight into why we don’t always act rationally when making these tough financial decisions and to explain it in simple terms we have Kara Child on board! Kara is a Senior Wealth Manager at Pitcher Partners and has studied Behavioural Economics and the psychology of investing.

With the 2019 Federal Election coming up this Saturday (May 18th), we thought it would be a good idea to check back in with politics guru John Slater to talk us through all things relevant to voting on election day. If you need a bit of a refresh (or have no idea) on how the aussie politics system actually works, take a listen to John’s first episode - Episode 8.  Otherwise settle in for 26 minutes or a short blog post where we chat about what you need to think about in the upcoming election, how the voting system works and how your vote counts.

There is a lot to consider when entering the property market, especially for the first time. One of the biggest questions is whether you should buy a home to live in or as an investment property. Today we chat with the lovely Ayda Shabanzadeh about understanding the property market and why we should be interested in entering. We chat about buying a home vs. an investment and what’s going on in the current market. Ayda’s formal title is Co-founder of Grow Group, but she is known for her property and finance expertise, business coaching and public speaking!