I posted a poll on the Somersoft forum asking about what rewards programs people prefer. In the discussion that followed, someone wrote: Sometimes we offer to pay cash for larger things, and get a discount rather than them taking the card … to which I responded: And that’s the key really – when you take … [Read More »]

I’m in the market for a new credit card – although I am seriously considering moving to a charge card – now that ANZ have just butchered their Qantas VISA card to the point where it is no longer worth paying their exorbitant fees and charges. I run almost all of our expenses through our … [Read More »]

Leanne and I went to the Steve Navra Optimising Investment Structures course on the weekend in Sydney (the same one that PaulZag went to in Melbourne a couple of weeks back. Was a pretty eye opening weekend – Steve certainly makes you think differently about some of the more “traditional” approaches to investing and building … [Read More »]

I wrote some comments on ethics in investing in the Somersoft Forum, and thought I’d post it here as well for posterity. Justification of unethical behaviour through legality and through an argument that it is “simply too difficult to define ethics clearly enough, so let’s stick to the black and white legalisms only” – this … [Read More »]

Referring to PaulZag’s blog entry Brains or Money So, if ‘A’ students go on to work for ‘C’ students and ‘B’ students go on to work for the government, yet I tend to be quite inconsistent with my results (get As in some subjects that I really enjoy and Cs or worse in others that … [Read More »]