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With the election campaigning ramping up, I have been thinking about how the result might affect the stock market.

What exactly is GDP? It’s been a long time since I studied Economics yet I still recall the concept well.

Even the world’s greatest investors have succumbed to our tendency to favour recent events over historic ones, also known as recency bias. This behaviour often influences others to do the same, as we are only human, after all.

Regardless of how we ponder time—narrated through personal stories, theoretically, through a child’s eye or literary rhetoric—it remains one constant that never changes. But our perceptions and ideas certainly can and do change, especially when it comes to the relationship between time and money.

Index funds are still here, and here for the long haul. After they were created in 1975 they were ridiculed and declared a fad. But fast-forward to 2024 and US$11 trillion is now invested in index funds, forming the bedrock of our Navigate Portfolios.

Hip health. This month I realised I'm more likely than most to join the 100,000 each year that require a hip replacement. What can be done to extend the life of those hips?

1957 - the happiest year to be alive, according to research. Any yet, why might such thinking be flawed? And, is there a better way to approach the subject of happiness?

Solomon's Paradox refers to a psychological phenomenon where individuals demonstrate greater insight and reasoning in solving others' problems than their own. If we accept we're better at delivering advice to others than we are to ourselves - how can we improve our decision-making?

In the ever-evolving landscape of world affairs, certain investment assets have stood the test of time, proving their worth in diverse portfolios. ‍Bonds, often overlooked, deserve a renewed appreciation, especially in the context of recent economic shifts.