Posts by Robson Partners

Industry news:
From 15 October 2018, a private company will be able to raise capital from the public.

The Senate passed the Corporations Amendment (Crowd Sourced Funding for Proprietary Companies) Bill 2017 on 12th September 2018.

Making regular deposits into an investment fund can provide you with significant benefits.

By making small regular deposits rather than one large lump sum deposit, you can reduce the vulnerability of your investment to market fluctuations. For example, if you commit to investing $1,000 a month in January. With a unit price of $1.00, your first instalment purchases 1,000 units. The next month, you invest another $1,000 but this time the unit price has risen to $1.10, buying you 909 units. This is illustrated in the table below.

As a business owner, there are plenty of things you need to manage, and two of the most important of these are assets and risks.

In other words, building your wealth and protecting your wealth.

The principles behind winning in business and winning in sport are similar in many ways.

Take tennis, for example. If you’ve ever watched a match on television, you’ll know that along with all the hitting, running and grunting there are a lot of numbers involved.

If a business owner said to you that they run their business without a budget, what would you think? You’d think they were incompetent. Or perhaps lazy? Or both?

Have you been doing the numbers and panicking a little recently?

If your super fund is a little ‘light’ as you start to think ahead to your golden years, you’re not alone.

With 1 July just around the corner, a number of new super and Centrelink rules that could impact your financial situation will come into effect. Here are the ones that you need to know about.

What if you knew what your coworkers really thought about you and what they were really like? Ray Dalio makes the business case for using radical transparency and algorithmic decision-making to create an idea meritocracy where people can speak up and say what they really think – even calling out the boss is fair game. Learn more about how these strategies helped Dalio create one of the world’s most successful hedge funds and how you might harness the power of data-driven group decision-making.

Self Managed Superannuation Funds can breathe a sigh of relief after the Government handed down a Budget that largely left superannuation untouched.

It’s never too late to reinvent yourself. Take it from Paul Tasner – after working continuously for other people for 40 years, he founded his own start-up at age 66, pairing his idea for a business with his experience and passion. And he’s not alone. As he shares in this short, funny and inspirational talk, seniors are increasingly indulging their entrepreneurial instincts and seeing great success.