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Portfolio success a complicated equation
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 04/03/2012
» Last week, we looked at portfolio diversification and how you can manage your existing nest egg and capitalise on performance while broadening your overall balance to suit your risk appetite and time horizon.
The dynamics of portfolio diversification
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 26/02/2012
» In this current series of articles relating to lifetime financial planning, we have covered the mechanics of wealth creation, asset protection and ongoing management approaches to create financial reserves that will give us total financial freedom.
Give property a home in your portfolio
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 19/02/2012
» To achieve and maintain a successful financial plan, it is essential that you continue to diversify your asset classes throughout your lifetime. One of the most common and favourable ways to do this is by entering the property.
She shall not be moved
Spectrum, Ezra Kyrill Erker, Published on 12/02/2012
» Five years ago, Boeung Kak Lake was Phnom Penh's largest. It served as home to some 20,000 Cambodians as well as the capital's backpacker ghetto, where foreign travellers would sit on guest house patios in a cannabis haze to watch the sun set over the waters and finish another Angkor Beer. And although the lake was full of sewage and debris and was hardly pristine, it served as an important catchment basin for the capital, providing equilibrium during the wet and dry seasons.
Wealth creation: It's never too late
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 12/02/2012
» So far this year we have looked at the importance of a well thought-out financial life plan and how such a plan might be affected by the creeping stealth power of inflation. Projecting these aspects of your overall finance picture into the future is not easy as there are so many unknowns and factors to take into account.
Factors that could waylay your wealth
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 05/02/2012
» Last week, we looked at the devastating effects inflation can have on the real value of your wealth. We did so in terms of both its capital value and your ongoing income requirement, which invariably increases as time goes by.
As doors open, businesses face a formidable frontier
Spectrum, Luke Hunt, Published on 29/01/2012
» As Myanmar trades political reforms in return for an end to economic sanctions, businesses big and small are queuing for access to the region's last closed economy. Entry will be dictated by political connections, financial clout, further reforms and necessity.
Start now to defuse inflation
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 29/01/2012
» The Chinese Year of the Dragon is thought to be an auspicious year and one in which a number of factors will have greater effect than usual, for better or worse. In other words, if your luck is good it will be enhanced, and if it is bad it will be horrid.
You'll love it when a plan comes together
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 22/01/2012
» Many expats don't realise until it's too late that they are insufficiently prepared for their financial future.
Unexpected QROPS shake-up
Spectrum, Andrew Wood, Published on 15/01/2012
» Wherever there is abuse of a system or facility it is always the minority of irresponsible people who spoil the benefits for the majority.