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Superannuation

How much superannuation is enough to retire comfortably in 2024?

| Bronwyn Allen

We reveal exactly how much a comfortable retirement costs per year.

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Motley Fool Take Stock

I don't care about my portfolio's performance this year

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Want to hear something unusual… and a little strange?

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Superannuation

Why superannuation funds love these 3 ASX 200 shares 

| Kate O'Brien

Superannuation shares can offer stability, dividend income, and the prospect of capital growth.

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How to invest

4 ASX 300 shares Australia's top female investors choose

| Kate O'Brien

Female ASX investors are rewriting the fund manager rule book with incisive investment strategies

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Cheap Shares

2 cheap ASX shares that offer at least 9% dividend yields

| Tristan Harrison

I'd look at these stocks for a cheap valuation and big passive income.

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Lest We Forget

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

We remember their service. We honour their sacrifice. We pledge to never forget.

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Share Market News

Are ASX 200 bank shares like CBA 'too expensive' right now?

| Tristan Harrison

Are banks overpriced or good value today?

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Broker Notes

Buy one, sell the other: Goldman's verdict on Coles vs. Woolworths share prices

| Bronwyn Allen

One stock is set for a 26% share price gain over the next 12 months while the other is destined…

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Recent Take Stock News

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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The correction no-one talks about

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

I'll ignore those who get a rush of pleasure from hitting arbitrary, short-term market falls.

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When companies lie

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Are you getting it straight? Or are you being asked to swallow a good story, instead?

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Here's when to start buying shares again

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

You know what we decided to do, when the market went nuts last week? Yep, pick stocks.

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My 2017 Melbourne Cup Trifecta

| Bruce Jackson

As in previous years, today I'm going to attempt to pick an unlikely trifecta of winners.

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Hidden beneath the flat ASX stock market is a whole other world of opportunity

| Bruce Jackson

And I'm looking to add more money to the market. Now results season is over, and we've had a chance…

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This won't pay for your retirement

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

There are two types of people: those who make changes and those who make excuses. And the latter won't pay…

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If you think BHP and Qantas will help propel the ASX higher, I've got bad news

| Bruce Jackson

It's not for the faint-hearted. This is one of the most shorted stocks on the ASX.......

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It's simply stunning what just a 10% per annum return can do for your SMSF

| Bruce Jackson

There's a whole world of growing stocks outside the traditional blue chips. 

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Here's where you find the ASX's big winners of tomorrow…

| Bruce Jackson

When it comes to stock market investing, nothing's ever guaranteed, especially over the short-term.

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I hate to say it, but the ASX is likely to go NOWHERE for the rest of 2017

| Bruce Jackson

The key is to let your winners run. Even better, add more to your winners along the way.

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It makes uncomfortable reading, but this is the only way you get rich in the stock market

| Bruce Jackson

"Stocks always go down faster than they go up, but they always go up more than they go down."

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Are You Ready for This Money Time Bomb?

| Motley Fool Staff

It’s not a case of what superannuation can do for you, but what you do with your superannuation that counts.

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Why You Should Totally Ignore Jim Rogers "Worst Crash In Our Lifetime" Call

| Bruce Jackson

The best you can do is totally ignore such garbage. Instead, stick to tried and tested investing principles...

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Why today's opportunity remains in dividend paying stocks

| Bruce Jackson

As for buying opportunities, as with any market, bull, bear or in-between, there are always opportunities.

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Following this one simple formula is the key to successful stock market investing

| Bruce Jackson

We are lifelong investors... and not people who flit in and flit out of the stock market based on the…

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Budget 2017: Here's what it means for stock market investors like you

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

We’ve found great businesses with good market opportunities. That are executing well. And run by great management teams.

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Warren Buffett's love-hate relationship with dividends

| Motley Fool Staff

Unlike Buffett, virtually every stock on the ASX is fair game to us.

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When it comes to the stock market, here's where the really big money is made

| Bruce Jackson

Losers are part of the territory. If you're not prepared for some losses, you're in the wrong game. Leave your…

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The RBA just gave the green light for dividend stocks, and the experts are already in ahead of the game

| Bruce Jackson

An RBA cash rate of just 1.5 per cent for “the foreseeable future” might be devastating for your term deposits…

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Why would anyone bother with ANZ shares when there are growth opportunities like this?

| Bruce Jackson

Money chases performance. And when the money wises up that the blue chips have had their day in the sun,…

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Mediocre returns ahead for investors chasing the same old ASX blue chips

| Bruce Jackson

There's a wall of money out there, stuck in the bank, earning a pittance, looking for opportunities to earn outsized…

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If this notoriously bearish fund manager is finding value, you better believe opportunities abound

| Bruce Jackson

Great stock market wealth is created over years, not days.

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It's suddenly getting very ugly for the blue chips

| Bruce Jackson

You could easily be forgiven for thinking we're in a bear market...

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Even I was surprised just how cheap mining stocks are today… and they pay juicy fully franked dividends

| Bruce Jackson

Iron ore is officially in a bear market, having fallen more than 20 per cent since its recent peak.

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Here's why you better hope like hell this is no house price bubble

| Bruce Jackson

All hell would be to pay if this was indeed a property bubble, and it ever did burst...

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Property bubble aside, here's one more sign why this bull market could have much further to run

| Bruce Jackson

Putting the odds in your favour is about buying high quality, growing, dividend-paying companies, and holding a collection of them…

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3 Signals Why This Hated Bull Market Might Be Just Getting Started

| Bruce Jackson

Rising interest rates can crash markets, but not when we've got visibility into where they are headed, and when.

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The 'no-brainer' way to play the coming stock market crash

| Bruce Jackson

Dividends. You've got to love them. No matter what the share market, they keep landing in your bank account, like…

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Why one veteran stockbroker reckons the Blue Chip party has got further to run

| Bruce Jackson

Let the dividend cheques rain upon us. Let the bull market run. Enjoy the ride.

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Property bubble or not, you can bank on low interest rates for the foreseeable future

| Bruce Jackson

Money is flooding into the blue chips, specifically the banks and miners.

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