Thursday, 29 May 2014

Bogleheads Investing Advice and Info

Bogleheads.org is an interesting investment-related web site/forum. It is inspired by investing advice from Jack Bogle, who is a founder of Vanguard, the best-known originator of index funds in the world.

There's a lot of content and advice available.



Bogleheads Investing Advice and Info

Wednesday, 14 May 2014

Federal budget 2014

Australia raises the pension eligibility age to 70.

See the summary of all budget changes here: Federal budget 2014 | First State Super


Monday, 12 May 2014

21 Quotes about investing

A few jewels from famous investors, collected by Shane Oliver:

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/shane-olivers-21-favourite-quotes-about-investing-2014-4

Quicken Tip: tracking performance after transferring shares

Here is a simple tip for tracking a performance of a security after transfer from one brokerage account to another: In Portfolio view (or the report), group by Security and not by Account. This will show the correct performance per security, no matter in which account it was during the given period.



Source: Tracking Performance after transferring shares - Quicken Community


Thursday, 1 May 2014

China to overtake US; Australia among the most expensive

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d79ffff8-cfb7-11e3-9b2b-00144feabdc0.html#axzz30V8cBV9X

" the report also found that the four most expensive countries to live in are Switzerland, Norway, Bermuda and Australia"