[Smart Investing] Focus on things you can control with super; 'Speeding tickets' for SMSFs; A cruel financial scam on job-seekers
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03 September 2012
Focus on things you can control with super
Calculators that try to help you understand if you are on track with your retirement savings are like a well-meaning friend - the intentions may be good but the message can be disturbing.
There seems little doubt that the regulation of self-managed super funds will soon come under a somewhat monumental change. And SMSFs trustees should be ready for the shake-up.
The advertising of bogus job offers in an attempt to trick individuals into revealing their personal financial details must rank as one of the cruellest financial scams.
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Wisdom in painful lessons
Barrie Dunstan, 25 Aug 12 One thing I've learned over 25 years of writing for The Australian Financial Review is that smart investors don't fall, fully formed, from trees. They may take decades to emerge because they don't understand investment until they have been through the full cycle of boom and bust, then boom again.
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