Ann's Blog

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Forex trading means making money through the gains accumulated by pitting two currencies against each together. Today, it's quite easy to trade Forex given the availability of online trading software. 

Have your money work for you. Are you sick of living pay check to pay check? Do you dread the prospect of working your entire life? Have you ever wondered how do you get ahead in life? If you have answered YES to these questions then there is hope. Quite often it is recognizing that you have a problem and a genuine desire to do something about it that will give you the nudge to transform your future. By having a desire for a different outcome in life will necessitate the need to change your priorities. This will give you the catalyst for instigating real change.

Do self-directed investors have the necessary experience to do the research to make informed investing decision?  When we journey into the investing world we are faced with many choices to make. There are numerous people out there that will want to make money by offering their services to help you make those investing decisions. It is worth paying for advice? Well that depends on who you are talking to? There are people out there that will that will gladly take your money either through scams or through high fees or large broker fees.

I am hearing stories and I’m sure you are too, about people reaching their 90’s and running out of money. Well, the truth is it can happen at a much younger age. Sometimes there are circumstances beyond your control that rob you of earning capacity, circumstances like an interrupted work career. Women, in particular, miss out years of earning capacity because caring for the family too often falls on them.

Longevity makes it imperative we make a conscious effort to save more money while we are still working. Life expectancy has continued to increase with females now aged 65 expected to live to 87.1 and a 65-year-old male can expect to live to 84.2 according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. I became a widow at 55, my girlfriend became a widow at 59 and my Mum became a widow at 83. The chances of women ending up on their own are greater than men and that is why women need to avoid running out of money.

It is relatively easy to find out what you need to know about any topic thanks to the internet. We can look up how to spell words, how to pronounce words, find the location of a city anywhere in the world. Never been to Mexico, no problem we can google away and find which countries border Mexico, see the location of the beaches, the major cities, the highlands and any large lakes. There is a lot of information and that is the problem with the internet. I sometimes get bogged down sifting through the mountains of information trying to work out if it is credible information.

Are you prepared to think outside the square? Does retiring early and spending time travelling appeal to you? It did to Keith & Tina Paul and they now spend their time doing what suits them.