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Every night on the TV finance news, you’ll hear about the ups and downs of household name stocks, like the big four banks, Telstra, CSL, Wesfarmers, Woolworths, BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. But the market is more than that handful of names.

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How do you break a bad investment habit?

Bad investment habits are the norm, not the exception. They include panicking and bailing out at generational market lows, like what too many did in 2009. Conversely, the same people often buy aggressively into market bubbles, like the technology debacle at the turn of this century.

Often these behaviours are the result of conditioned responses. We can have both good and bad investment habits. The key takeaway is understanding how they are created.

In his excellent book, The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg explains why we continue to do self-destructive things. According to Duhigg, there are three components to forming a habit: cue, routine and reward.

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Warren Buffet makes $1million bet. On what you may ask?

Warren Buffett is the second richest man in the world because of his extraordinary performance as an investor. In contrast to his skill and good fortune, he has been quoted many times that he believes most institutions and mum and dad investors are better off investing in low-cost index funds. In fact, he has instructed via his Will that his estate be invested into index funds for his beneficiaries, having said that, the bulk of his estate has been left to a charitable foundation, so the kids may only get $1 billion each. How will they ever survive? Anyway back to the bet.

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The secret to financial fitness revealed

It’s often said that the secret of success in any endeavour is “stickability,” your capacity for staying committed to a goal. But success also depends on having goals you can stick with. Managing that tension is what an advisor does.

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Is Technology the Investment Edge?

Digital innovation has democratised access to financial information to the point where anyone with a smartphone, a few apps and real-time news and data feeds can be like a pro trader. But who wants to do that? And do you need to?