Life exams are the real test
AS dozens of students across the country sit down to do their final exams this week, it’s important to remember the three really important tests in life and learn how to ace them, writes the Barefoot Investor.
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Playing with shares is the ride of your life
THE share market is like a rollercoaster with breathtaking climbs, gentle dips, and at least a few stomach-churning plunges on the way. If you want financial security, you’ll need to take the ride, but you have to fit your own safety harness, writes the Barefoot Investor.
The power to change lies with you
THE biggest risk retirees face isn’t the short-term wobbles of the share market, it’s running out of money before they die. But when it comes to our financial luck, we all have the power to change things before it’s too late, writes the Barefoot Investor.
Time to take a holiday from the big four
BY taking on record household debt at a time when interest rates are at record lows, plenty of overstretched people may well find their financial lives will end up in the toilet some time in the next decade. The most important thing is to ask yourself is am I prepared, writes the Barefoot Investor.
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