292 articles
Beginner
9 m

Rebalancing your portfolio

Managing my portfolio and super strategies

Buy and sell investments each year to return your portfolio to its original asset allocation, ensuring targets still match retirement goals.

Beginner / Advanced
10 m

What is value investing?

Managing my portfolio and super strategies

Value investors thrive on irrational decisions and often do the opposite of what the crowd is doing. But how does it actually work?

Advanced
5 m

Knowing investor pitfalls

Managing my portfolio and super strategies

Faced with a world full of information we use mental shortcuts to save time and energy - but some of these lead to common investor mistakes.

Beginner
5 m

5 reasons to cross the Pacific

Managing my portfolio and super strategies

Features unique to the Australian sharemarket make the case for having some international shares in your portfolio.

Beginner / Advanced
5 m

An investor’s travel guide

Managing my portfolio and super strategies

Lifting your horizons can open up a whole new world of investments. We look at how to assess the opportunities.

Beginner / Advanced
6 m

Why go global?

Managing my portfolio and super strategies

Having a multi-cultural portfolio can offer the benefits of greater diversification and potentially higher returns than available domestically.

Beginner
7 m

The Australian sharemarket explained

Shares and investment markets

Half of our local sharemarket is made up of banks - we explain what this means and what you need to look out for.

Beginner
5 m

Fees against costs

Managing my portfolio and super strategies

Choosing a super fund means considering losses and gains. Higher fees seem like a loss - but what if they produce a greater overall return?

Beginner / Advanced
8 m

What is a hybrid?

Defensive investments and fixed income

While generally classified as fixed income investments, hybrids have characteristics of both debt and equity.

Beginner / Advanced
8 m

Set up your SMSF in 5 steps

SMSFs

Setting up your SMSF starts with working out what your investment strategy will be and going from there.

Beginner / Advanced
6 m

How to buy bonds

Defensive investments and fixed income

You can buy bonds through ETFs or managed funds. We look at the pros and cons.