Insights

Steve Sammartino takes stock of the metaverse 12 months after Mark Zuckerberg heralded it as the Next Big Thing.

Theo Marinis provides real life examples of how an annual strategy review can save a lot of money and time and make a lot of sense.

A client's question about retirement and helping his child save for a home deposit whilst dealing with an uncertain future.

Evan Lucas provides investors with a strategy to shake off market paralysis.

Warren Buffett has been a long-time critic of exorbitant hedge fund fees, and for good reason. We look at why high fees can be detrimental to returns.

Self-confidence has many benefits. It helps us make decisions, it builds resilience, and helps us to move forward. We look at how to build investment confidence.

First home buyers have been dealt a tough hand, but it's important to remember there are opportunities to grow wealth beyond bricks and mortar.

Join InvestSMART Director, Effie Zahos as she chats with the team behind the popular Australian Investors Podcast

Scott Francis calculates the advantages of steely nerves and buying as markets fall and fall some more.

Black Monday was the largest single day stock market decline. Paul Clitheroe remembers the day and how he managed clients through it. "You need to be pretty gutsy to buy, but history tells us you'd be nuts to sell."

Evan Lucas joins Peter Stefanovic at Sky News to discuss local employment rates and inflation in the UK

Robert Gottliebsen directs his attention to how banks are treating deposits after a spate of interest rate rises and considers what the government's first budget might mean for SMSFs and franking credits.

Scott Francis weighs the pros and cons of building savings outside of the superannuation system and shows how it needn't be an either-or proposition.

In the latest chapter in the Twitter - Musk saga, Steve Sammartino explores how Musk could set himself on the road to becoming the world's first trillionaire by making Twitter a Super-App.

Evan Lucas joins The Australian Finance Podcast to talk about his new book. It's all about understanding investment psychology and harnessing common pitfalls to make you a better investor

It'd be easy to get weighed down by the barrage of unsettling news at present. Inflation, Euro debt woes, recession - you can take your pick of predictions. But my greatest fear is not that the global economy will plummet into a complete meltdown.