What's the Risk?

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What's the Risk? episodes

August 04, 2022 Wade Vs. Plunge
The eternal investment question – “do I invest my money all at once or do I invest smaller amounts at predetermined intervals?” Otherwise known as lump sum investing vs. dollar cost averaging, or as our US colleague Jeff Troutner once termed it: wading vs. plunging.

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10 min
July 30, 2022 Horrific Burns from Celsius
People take big leaps of faith in all areas of life. As the Celsius crypto bankruptcy shows, taking leaps of faith with your money can have terrible consequences.

Why do people keep putting their money in assets or on platforms that have multiple red flags?
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11 min
July 29, 2022 Retire on the Pension with $88k?
Can you retire on the pension with an $88k lump sum? On the spreadsheet, sure, but lets look at various challenges retirees face.
Housing maintenance.
Restlessness.
Health & Mobility.
Women's super small balances.
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9 min
June 18, 2022 Investing & New Challenges
Inflation is here. While it took some time to fully show up in the official figures and be acknowledged by learned economic scholars, us mere mortals who engage with increasing prices throughout the economy on a day-to-day basis long knew something was up.
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10 min
June 10, 2022 The Most Dangerous Word In Finance
Many investors place too much faith in the word safe. They're happy to take it at face value while looking past the need for more research or better understanding the basics.
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9 min
May 28, 2022 Act As If with Aged Care
The aged care system in Australia has been under scrutiny in recent years. While the focus has been on harrowing stories from inside the system which hopefully will be addressed, very few people are aware of the often-complex entry process faced by seniors and their families. Here the old principle of “you don’t know what you don’t know” should always be in the minds of seniors along with anyone who wants to offer professional advice or unprofessional opinions.
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9 min
May 20, 2022 Decisions in the Aftermath of Divorce
The Johnny Depp Amber Heard trial shows people aren't at their best during and in the aftermath of divorce, so how do you handle financial decisions in the chaos?
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8 min
May 05, 2022 Questions to Lift the Fog
How does someone get so far along in their life without any financial or investment direction? In the past information was very hard to come by, today it's almost a flood, so it's not easy, but every investor needs to ask themselves some simple questions. If they don't like or can't provide the answers, then they might need some help.
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10 min
May 05, 2022 Finfluencing Poses Age-Old Product Problem
ASIC has cracked down on finfluencers, and while finfluencers have complained, they were too product focused. There is an easy fix if they genuinely want to be financial educators.
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10 min
April 29, 2022 Gambling, Speculating & Investing
Walter Matthau was known as a massive sports gambler, were he alive today, you’d wonder whether he’d still be dedicating his time gambling on horses and sports teams given today's obsession with cryptocurrencies and terrible stocks.

There has always been a debate about the overlap between gambling and investing. Investing has often been linked with gambling, usually unfairly by people who take a cursory glance and don’t understand the actual intermediary of investing and gambling is speculation.
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11 min

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What's the Risk? is a simple investment series we hope investors can use to better understand index and portfolio performance, along with addressing some investment questions and…