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Survey results: Your personal experiences with inflation
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Survey responses: French v Aussie reaction to pension age
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Results from our retirement experiences survey
Our Reader Survey on retirement experiences drew about 700 responses, an excellent sample given it was limited to retirees. We also received thousands of comments, and we are honoured that so many readers allowed a glimpse into their personal experiences. The comments are collected into this document. (Please note, this is a large document but we wanted to include all comments since people went to the effort to write them).
Your opinions on Labor's franking proposal
By Leisa Bell on March 6, 2019 A large number of readers shared their opinions and future intentions regarding Labor’s proposed changes to franking credit refunds – almost 2,000 of you! Thanks for taking the time to participate in last week’s survey. For those who want to dive deeper into the debate, there are 25 pages of comments attached as a document at the end of this article. This subject really fires people up.
*Survey on Labor's franking credit proposal*
This is a short survey on your attitudes to Labor’s proposal to deny refunds of franking credits, other than for exempt groups such as pensioners. It should take less than two minutes to complete, and you are welcome to add comments. We will publish the results next week.
Committee Chair call to Cuffelinks readers
By Leisa Bell on November 7, 2018 Of interest to your audience Hi Graham, I hope you’re well. As you know, the House Standing Committee on Economics has launched a formal inquiry into refundable franking credits. The objective of the inquiry is to give a voice to the hundreds of thousands of Australians who will be directly impacted by any change to policy. Submissions for the inquiry are ongoing.
What two investing insights would you give your 20-year-old self?
For a PDF version: Free Cuffelinks ebook of Special Edition 200 Hamish Douglass, Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer, Magellan Asset Management 1. My central advice would be that successful investing is about finding and then owning for the long-term companies that can generate excess returns for years to come. It’s not about looking for stocks that might come into short-term favour on stock markets.
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