When Do We Sell Our Investment Properties — Retirement Edition – Guidance Financial Services

For many Australians approaching retirement, investment property has been a faithful long-term strategy. It’s familiar. It’s tangible. It’s helped build wealth over decades.  But as you step into retirement—when superannuation becomes accessible, income generation takes on an increased focus, and lifestyle becomes the priority – it’s time to think about whether an investment property or properties continue to make sense.  Thanks for listening to another episode of the […]

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Weekend reading: Are you positively giddy with the FTSE’s excitement going into 2026?

What caught my eye this week. Despite all the noise about US mega-cap tech shares and the gloom around the moribund UK economy, London’s FTSE 100 index beat the hallowed US markets in 2025: Source: Google Finance These figures don’t even include dividends. Adding them in would favour the FTSE further, with its higher yield. […]

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What to check before you ‘update’

On-chain security researcher ZachXBT flagged hundreds of wallets across multiple EVM chains getting drained for small amounts, typically under $2,000 per victim, funneling into a single suspicious address. The theft total climbed past $107,000 and kept rising. The root cause is still unknown, but users reported receiving a phishing email disguised as a mandatory MetaMask […]

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2025 Investing Lessons – A Wealth of Common Sense

Finance content is seasonal. Tax stuff in the spring. Earnings coverage is once a quarter. Someone is contractually obligated to write a Sell in May blog post that month every year. Right now it’s a combination of look-backs and look-forwards. It’s outlook season for the upcoming year — biggest risks, opportunities, price targets, etc. for 2026. […]

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SEC crypto skeptic Caroline Crenshaw set to depart the agency this week

Key Takeaways Caroline Crenshaw, the lone Democratic commissioner at the SEC, will leave her position when her term expires on January 3. Her departure will tilt the SEC’s composition to a 3-0 Republican majority, a rare occurrence in the history of the commission. Share this article SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw, known for her skepticism of […]

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The Fed just leaked a bullish liquidity signal that suggests Bitcoin can front-run a 2026 recovery

On the last day of 2025, while most traders were half watching fireworks and half pretending they were not checking charts, the quietest corner of the financial system started making a lot of noise. Banks pulled a record amount of cash from the Federal Reserve’s SRF, about $74.6 billion, on December 31. That number matters […]

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What’s your “One Thing” for 2026?

At a Glance: Reflect, Reset, and Design Your Life Intentionally – Closing out 2025 with honest self-reflection helps you recognize wins, identify gaps, and assess progress across health, relationships, income, and net worth. Moving into 2026 with a clearly defined “One Thing” shifts you from drifting through life to actively steering it. Build Protection Against […]

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Links 1/1/2026 | naked capitalism

Dear patient readers, Happy New Year! Wishing you a wonderful 2026! All of us here are very grateful for your readership, your comments, your links, and your support. We are honored to serve such a wonderful community. And let us not forget: 📹 Video: Children in Gaza light candles on New Year’s Evehttps://t.co/PZrNqKbB9z — Middle […]

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