Category Archives: Investments

How do I invest when the market is going crazy?

Checking the news constantly will increase your anxiety.

Thanks to @bhavesh1024 for this excellent question. When everyone around you is panicking about market downturns and recession on the horizon, how can you avoid the crazy sell off?  And importantly, how do you ensure that those around you make good decisions as well? These are chaotic times and – no matter what experience you…

Making Investment Decisions: Do’s and Don’ts of investments

We’ve done a lot of thinking so far about making investment decisions, so let me warn you about some things to AVOID. Analysis paralysis:  you can always gather more information and built another spreadsheet.  At some point you have to stop thinking and make a bloody decision!  (How many times have I wished to yell…

Making Investment Decisions: The WTF Investment Framework

Investment framework

There are eight key matters to think about when considering any investment. These form the investment framework. 1) Why do I want to invest; or What’s the point of making this investment? – To generate a secondary income; – To make a capital gain or to save some money; – To offset or otherwise manage…

Making Investment Decisions: The Groundwork

Answering the question ‘What should I invest in?’ can be as complicated or as straightforward as you want it to be. Because of this ambiguity, the wealth of information (pardon the pun) and competing opinions on where you should put your money can be hard to sift through

Talking Money: What is not an investment?

A vintage car is not an investment

My own definition of an investment – which has stood the test of a changing lifestyle – is: “Something that I can put time or money into, which can be a reliable or predictable store of value, a source of income, or an effective offset to a cost that I have.”

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