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Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Scott Phillips is The Motley Fool’s Chief Investment Officer in Australia. He is Advisor of The Fool’s flagship investment service, Motley Fool Share Advisor and the Portfolio Manager of Motley Fool Everlasting Income and Premier Portfolio, as well as running our most premium service, Motley Fool Platinum. He is passionate about investing, having managed his own portfolio for over 15 years. A dyed-in-the-wool Fool (in the best way), he has been a member of The Motley Fool since 1999. Scott holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Management) and a Graduate Diploma of Accounting. Before joining The Fool, Scott worked in various Sales and Finance roles in industry, which has allowed him to see the good, bad and the ugly of corporate management close-up. Giving him a great understanding of the way businesses run – and what separates the business wheat from the chaff – Scott wholeheartedly agrees with Warren Buffett when he said he was a ‘better investor because I am a businessman and a better businessman because I am an investor’. Scott left a successful career to follow his passion – helping our members achieve the best possible investment returns, and helping Australians learn to better manage their money. It’s no surprise he ended up at The Motley Fool.

Recent Articles

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Share Market News

Bank share prices find nothing to fear from the Royal Commission

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

After all those months of testimony, cross-examination, and headlines, the Royal Commission into the financial services industry found a lot…

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Share Market News

The Royal Commissioner is ready. Is your portfolio?

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has announced that he will release the report from the Royal Commission into Financial Services next…

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

Happy Australia Day!

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Here's to a great country... and some great world-beating Australian companies...

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Motley Fool Take Stock

The biggest investment shake-up in decades…

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Motley Fool Australia's CIO, Scott Phillips, urges readers to stand for better policy in response to the Labor Opposition's proposal…

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Share Market News

Brands are great. But how much are they really worth?

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Well-known brands with pricing power make a company more profitable, but does that make them a great investment?

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Take Stock: How the Kokoda Trail almost killed me… and why I'd do it all again

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Motley Fool Australia's Chief Investment Officer, Scott Phillips, recounts a harrowing experience after trekking the Kokoda Trail.

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Motley Fool Take Stock

NASDAQ Soars 17% (with an asterisk)

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

While most headlines are more focused on the most recent share price moves, or on falls from recent peaks, Motley…

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Share Market News

Motley Fool Money: The money, business and investing podcast

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The business, finance and investing podcast that aims to help you save and make money!

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Share Market News

Recognition for our Motley Fool Money podcast

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Lifehacker recently named it one of the '12 Podcasts That Will Help You Save Money In 2019'!

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Share Market News

Welcome to 2019, Fools!

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

It's a new year. A blank slate. Here are 13 New Year's Resolutions that you can keep... and are worth…

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Share Market News

13 Foolish New Year's Resolutions

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Welcome to 2019, Fools. Here are 13 Foolish New Year's Resolutions we think will help you navigate the choppy but…

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Motley Fool Take Stock

Want a risk-free, tax-free return? (No, seriously)

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Motley Fool Australia's Chief Investment Officer, Scott Phillips, explains how to get one back on the banks this new year…

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Share Market News

Counting the cost of 2018

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

It's been a heck of a year, with more highs and lows than a Boxing Day Test. What happened in…

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Share Market News

Don't let anyone tell you the markets are 'efficient'

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

A 3.4% swing in 90 minutes this morning... Will someone please put the adults back in charge...?

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Share Market News

Merry Christmas (and a little Foolish Christmas tradition)

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The whole team here at The Motley Fool wish all of our members and readers a very Merry Christmas.

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Share Market News

The bear roars for the NASDAQ

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

An 800% gain? Sure, but you're going to have to buckle up...

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⏸️ Your Money

Podcast: Forecasting, Apple, And Danger Ahead for Banks

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Bank balance sheets aren't as pretty as they seem. And Labor's franking credit policy is a mess...

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⏸️ Investing

An official ASX correction? Incorrect!

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Apparently, when the ASX closed on Thursday, the stock market was in an ‘official’ correction.

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⏸️ Investing

The Millennial investors catching FIRE

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

They don't feature in the smashed avocado-laced headlines, and you won’t see them living the high life on Instagram.

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⏸️ Investing

Why the ASX could be in for a rough ride

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

If I wrote a book about predictions, it’d have two, very short, chapters.

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⏸️ Investing

Banks are on a collision course with reality

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

ANZ's rate cut is either brave, crazy brave or carefully calculated.

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Personal Finance

Here come cheaper internet plans

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Looking for a cheap NBN plan? You might just be in luck

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⏸️ ASX Shares

Forget the 'food bowl'. These three pictures make us the 'wine glass of Asia'

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The future is bright for Australian winemakers. Especially if you're selling expensive grog into China...

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Technology Shares

This is the most you'll ever pay for a mobile plan

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Telstra has unveiled what's likely the most expensive mobile plan of modern times. But this is the most you'll ever…

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⏸️ Investing

The chart that has Shane Oliver suggesting rates might stay on hold until 2020

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Many economists expect interest rates to rise. But Shane Oliver is now more cautious...

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⏸️ Investing

The one chart showing why inflation is on the way up

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

For years now, economists have wondered - is inflation really dead?

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It's official: Cash is dying. One graph tells the tale

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Australians are using a lot less cash, and the RBA knows it.

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⏸️ Investing

Australia is about to pass a law to get tough with China

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Australian lawmakers are getting set to take on the might of our largest trading partner, China.

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⏸️ Investing

Australian banks under pressure as US banks suffer 12 straight days of share price falls

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

It’s not a good time to be invested in US financials, and now Australian bank shareholders are looking over their…

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⏸️ Investing

The US Defence Secretary will visit China despite the (trade) war of words

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The US Secretary of Defence, James Mattis, is set to visit Beijing on Tuesday, the first such visit to China…

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⏸️ Investing

Another day. Another $700m fine

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

There's something to be said for a market that is ‘happy’ that Commonwealth Bank is fined ‘only’ $700 million dollars…

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⏸️ Investing

The best time to worry? When no-one else is

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

There's a really great way to earn yourself notoriety and gain a following in business and investment circles: make a…

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CEOs are paid too much… and that's not the worst of it

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

It's time to rethink CEO pay, but not in the way you imagine.

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⏸️ Investing

Here's To The Crazy Ones

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Forget the doom-and-gloom brigade. Embrace the reality that the path to progress isn't always smooth, but is relentless. And relentlessly…

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⏸️ Investing

Think long term: Why Buffett beats the Budget

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The Budget circus, is, well, politicians being politicians.

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⏸️ Investing

Wealth Management Closing Down Sale! Everything Must Go!

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The Financial Services Royal Commission has achieved a remarkable feat in its reasonably short history. It's made the extraordinary seem…

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⏸️ Investing

The debacle at the Royal Commission

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

We’ll know how serious the pollies are by whether they add layers of rules (a cop-out) or drive a seismic…

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⏸️ Investing

Lest We Forget

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

We will remember them

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You're not as rational as you think

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The quest for perfection can be a noble one, but the acknowledgement of fallibility is much more useful.

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

Dear Malcolm, Here's some advice…

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The headlines are screaming about Malcolm Turnbull’s shorts...

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