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Apex Partners provides quality financial planning advice, superannuation advice, budgeting advice, risk protection strategies, investment management, execution and administration services. Apex Partners will work with you to develop a financial strategy that is personalised to your needs; one that provides you with the financial security and stability you desire. Apex Partners strive to help you create and protect your wealth; to provide you with total investment returns in a way that is adjusted and adapted for prevailing market and economic conditions; and to help you achieve your personal financial goals.

Swann Insurance is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Insurance Australia Group (IAG). IAG is a major Australian general insurance group with a global presence. Swann Insurance operates independently; has its own insurance licence and over 50 years experience in managing all facets of the insurance process from product development through customer service and claims. Swann Insurance recently launched a series of insurance products available for subscription online: your ActivLife (a life and disability insurance product), your BillProtect (insurance cover to protect your ability to pay routine bills) and your FeeSecure (an insurance product intended to secure continuity of school fees). SuperInvestor members can subscribe to these new Swann Insurance products online now. Find out more...

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Separating Fantasy from Reality in the Brave New World of Payments Innovation
Stories about P2P payments related to mobile payments are often a mixture of large companies pushing out announcements about services for which they have no serious launch plans, to start-ups that have ideas in development but nothing in production, to new firms that have introduced a new product and really think they are going to be the Google of payments. And of course spread among this are the gold nuggets—serious product and technology ventures that could have a real impact on the future of the business. [...]

The No Brainer Hedge Fund
The first page of search engine research tells you that: "Investors use hedging strategies when they are unsure of what the market will do"--- isn't that always the case? Further along you learn that there are many different kinds of strategies, nearly all of which rely upon some sort of derivative betting mechanism. But what is hedging all about in the first place? [...]

SMSF Administration and avoiding the percentage trap
Self Managed Super Funds must have annual accounts and audits done, and as such administration services are a non-negotiable.  For those who run businesses, you would be accustomed to your accountant and book-keeper providing these services.  How would you like it if your book-keeper quoted her fees not as a set amount per hour, or a fixed amount per month, but rather as a percentage of your turnover? [...]

You can invest your super in property
Most people these days are aware of Self Managed Superannuation Funds, commonly abbreviated to SMSF’s. One area of investment which is helping drive the take up of SMSF’s is property investment. We all know that Australian’s love their property investment. Whilst SMSF’s have always been able to purchase investment property, in the past they were restricted by the fact that SMSF were unable to borrow. This has now changed. [...]

Investor Friendly Tax Reform and Job Creation

Over the past 30 years Federal Tax receipts (Corporate, Personal, Estate, Excise, Gift, Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, et al) have averaged less than 20% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Read that again, and don't think for a minute that it's not a large number. But it's not nearly large enough to pay the bills, reduce the national debt, grow the economy, and come to the aid of all of the people in the world who need us. Why, because nearly half of us (some legally, some not so) pay little or no federal income taxes at all--- and because our elected representatives have no financial management skills.

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Solid Income Investments in Liquid Form - Managed Closed End Funds
Unlike conventional mutual funds, CEFs do not issue and redeem shares directly with investors at net asset value. CEFs are listed on national securities exchanges, where shares of the Investment Company are purchased and sold in transactions with other investors, just like individual company stocks, and most often not at net asset value. [...]

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