How our portfolios went in 2024

Three months ago, Jess wasn't an investor. That has changed through out the past 12 episodes- in fact, she has a whole new lease on her financial life.Clear goals, a solid portfolio and and the confidence in herself to keep investing.In this final episode of ‘Jess Gets Investing’ ...  Show more

Jess just made her first investing “mistake”. A purchase she made, regretted and then almost immediately sold. She thought starting investing was the hard part! It turns out that staying invested- despite what life or the market throws at you- is the hardest part.To avoid making ...  Show more

How would we build a portfolio today if we were given $100,000?

That was the question that Betashares asked us, with the only condition that we had to build a portfolio of ASX-listed ETFs.

Tune in to hear the principles we'd apply when building our portfo ...

Australia's latest economic data was released last week, and while our GDP grew 0.2% there were plenty of reasons to be concerned. We dig into the data in today's episode.

We also cover the news of the day, including:

One of Australia's great companies, REA Group, is looking to acquire the biggest real estate portal in the UK, Righmove. Today, we call Nick Cregan from Fairlight Asset Management who has invested in Rightmove to understand what REA Group sees in Britain and where it might go ...

There was always going to be a day when this happened. Australia's superannuation industry has grown to more than $4 trillion assets under management. That is becoming too big for a country with a GDP of $3 trillion and a local stock market with a market cap of $2.7 trillion. ...