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Wealthy investors and family often invest significant amounts overseas … so what do they know that you may not?

​After a fairly unusual and turbulent 2016, we expect that 2017 will be less volatile, and we maintain a generally positive outlook for both local and global markets. We expect interest rates, broadly speaking, to rise slowly, and not in a disruptive manner as rising interest rates have been expected now for some time.

Self-managed super fund trustees are generally aware of the benefits of diversification, but many trustees still focus their investment portfolios in just two assets: Australian shares and Australian property.

Over the next few days, we will be reducing the allocations to Australian bonds across most of our portfolios. This change is aimed at reducing the risk posed by potential interest rate rises in the future.

After chasing a football for the last 16 years in the AFL the competitor in me has moved into my new career, chasing investment returns. I joined Six Park a while ago and I’m now helping Australian investors create their own diversified portfolio of investments. When I explain to people what I’m doing now the first question they rightly ask is “What the hell is robo-advice”, which is quickly followed by “So what do Six Park do”?

Automated investment services come in many shapes and sizes.

Six Park is an automated investment service backed by Australia’s preeminent investment experts. We are typically placed in a sector known as “robo-advice”

nvestors have been using Six Park’s automated investment management service for almost a year now. Let's take a look at our business as of 15 May, 2017…

Having a self-managed super fund (SMSF) can have advantages (read more here) but it also comes with a range of administrative, compliance and reporting requirements.