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HOW WE CAN HELP YOU WITH INVESTMENTS

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Build an investment portfolio designed to achieve your end goals.

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Achieve adequate portfolio diversification.

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Ensure the portfolio remains low-cost.

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Gain access to wholesale investments that are not available to retail investors.

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Investment and tax reporting on investments.

WHY GET INVESTMENT ADVICE?

Choosing the right investments is critical in helping achieve your objectives. Your portfolio needs to be a balance between the level of risk you are willing to accept and the level of return required to achieve your objectives. If you invest aggressively, you can achieve higher returns, but you also increase the risk of not achieving your end goal. If you invest too conservatively,

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FREQUENTLY ASKED INVESTMENT QUESTIONS

How do investments work?

Investments are designed to produce a return on your money. Investments have varying degrees of risk and provide returns in different forms. For example, an investment property provides returns in the form of rental income plus an increase (or decrease) in the value of the property. A managed fund has income distributions and capital growth (increase/decrease in price of the managed fund units). A share pays dividends and can also increase (or decrease) in price. Term deposits and bank accounts pay interest, but to not increase or decrease in capital value.

How can I invest my money wisely?

A way to reduce the risk of your investments is to diversify. This involves investing in a range of different types of investments (property, shares, managed funds, term deposits, etc.), across a range of asset classes, regions, sectors and industries.

The benefit of diversification is that you are less likely to have a severe decrease in your investment balance if one investment alone significantly decreases in price. Diversification also allows you to receive returns from different types of investments, reducing the impact of temporary poor performance in one type asset class and benefiting from asset classes performing well at any given time.

Having a higher portion of your portfolio invested in growth assets (such as shares and property) will generally provide a higher return over the longer-term, but your investment balance is more likely to bounce up and down at a higher rate (volatility). Whereas having a higher portion of your portfolio invested in defensive assets (such as bank accounts, term deposits, and fixed interest) will probably produce lower long-term returns, but your investment balance will be more stable.

A superannuation fund allows you to join as a member, providing you with the ability to contribute to your superannuation fund account, or have contributions made on your behalf from an employer.

Each superannuation fund has their own set of rules within the scope of the legislation. The superannuation fund will provide its members with an investment menu to choose from as well as personal life insurance solutions. Superannuation fund fees can vary greatly between superannuation funds and are set by the trustee of the fund.

What is the best way to invest?

You first need to have a bit of an idea about the type of investments you are comfortable with. Do you want an aggressive portfolio to earn higher long-term returns and happy to accept high levels of volatility, or do you want a conservative portfolio with more capital stability, despite lower long-term returns? Or, are you looking for something in-between?

The next step is figuring out the purpose of your investment. What are you investing for and how far away is that? If you are saving for something where you need the money in a year or two, an aggressive portfolio is probably not the best option, as the returns over the short term for such a portfolio are very unpredictable and it might not meet your goal. However, if you are investing without needing to touch the money for 10 years, an aggressive portfolio may be suitable, provided you are comfortable with the short-term fluctuations.

You then need to do some rough calculations on the level of return you need over the timeframe to meet your goal and the amount of risk with your investments you are willing to accept. If the expected return from the investments chosen does not meet your goal amount, you may consider increasing the risk (to hopefully achieve higher returns), or you might reduce the amount you need to reach your goal. Conversely, if you project that the expected return provides you more capital than you need by the date of your goal, you may consider reducing the risk in order to provide more certainty that you will meet your goal.

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