Emotion is often an irrational, hard to gauge and frankly invisible force that financial advisers have to manage and deal with on a daily basis.
One of the grim and unstated realities of providing financial advice is an adviser – to earn their keep – must understand how …
The ultra weak US dollar appears to have a stronger correlation with the stratospheric rise in the gold price, rather than the broadly accepted notion of the latter being an anti-inflationary investment.
Inflation, while up in most countries compared to benign levels over the past decade, does not …
For almost three years Australian’s have been in love with saving cash and saving into cash-like investment products, with anecdotal reports estimating the build up of business and retail cash savings now somewhere north of $1 trillion and growing.
Over this period burningpants has also been reporting that …
If British banks were hoping for some good news last week they were wrong as one of the UK’s leading supermarket chains set its sights on luring retail customers away from the much maligned high street banks.
Tesco, a UK supermarket goliath that made almost £4 billion ney …
One of the ways to attract Australia’s rich (by rich we mean more than $1 million outside super and their principal place of residence) to a breakfast focus group is ask them to share their impression of the Gillard Government.
Despite discovering an invariable inclination of the wealthy …
Last week this burningpants’ correspondent found himself at a primary school fundraiser trivia-night.
Don’t worry this isn’t a blog about the state of the Australian education system, but more to do with the fact this correspondent has what can only be described as a prodigious and, some might …
