Time for some financial spring cleaning
The best way to boost your investment returns is by lowering your costs and if your financial adviser is working in your best interests, he’ll agree with you, writes the Barefoot Investor.
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Beware the big fat cat funds
Fat cat funds have been licking the cream off investors’ returns for years and the average young worker who has their super with one of the big five could find themselves $200,000 worse off when they retire, writes the Barefoot Investor.
There’s no such thing as easy cash
Great power lies in teaching independent financial education in schools, opening the eyes of kids and making sure they are wise to the loan sharks who prey on the young, writes the Barefoot Investor.
The ultimate present you can give your dad
When our home burned to the ground, my wife’s final memories of her father were lost in the ashes. It’s a tragedy which inspired what I think is the best present you can give your own dad — and best of all, it’s free, writes the Barefoot Investor.
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