Noel News Everybody is a genius, but if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid. ALBERT EINSTEIN Welcome to our November newsletter Can you believe it’s almost Christmas? I guess the major topics right now are interest rates and inflation. There is no doubt we have reached the bottom of the interest rate cycle, and rates will start to move upwards again.   I see that most major banks are already increasing their fixed interest rates. Maybe that’s something that’s worth exploring if you have a housing loan. Just be aware that taking out a fixed rate is like taking out insurance – there is always a cost. Many fixed-rate loans have heavy fees for early exit so make sure you do your homework if you’re thinking of changing. I am happy to recommend a good mortgage broker if you ...

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Noel News “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy, but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure that you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.” GEORGE LORIMER Scammers Scammers are the big topic this week. I’ve started to receive phone calls on my mobile from strangers telling me that they were simply returning my call. This is puzzling, because these people aren’t criminals, they are simply responding to what they thought was a phone call from me. My question is, how can scammers make a phone call using my number as the originating number? That’s a serious worry.   Then I got an email from one of my golfing friends telling me he wished to send me an email with a question and was that okay. I replied of course. Next thing I got an email along ...

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Noel News I put two children through Harvard by trading options.  Unfortunately, they were my broker’s children. JASON ZWEIG AMERICAN JOURNALIST Welcome to our May newsletter – the fact that May has arrived tells us that we are less than two months from the end of the financial year, and also heralds the pending arrival of this year’s Federal Budget which will be handed down on Tuesday 11 May. We’ll talk about that more after we know what’s in it. Just keep in mind there will be leaks aplenty before budget day and some will be correct and some will not. The Catch-22 is that the devil is in the detail and it’s only when we get the huge amount of information emailed to us by fund managers on budget night that we find out what sneaky stuff never made it to the press. In this newsletter we focus on ...

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eLanka Newsletter – 13 Sept – 4th edition – Sri Lankans in Australia Click here or on the image below to read this week’s elanka Newsletter Tomb stone of Dr Hayman at Bournemouth – Warden of St Thomas’ College – A man who was a real benefactor of S. Thomas’ Mount and Gurutalawa – by Renuka De Silva “ROYAL CEYLON NAVY, THEN, SRI LANKAN NAVY, NOW” – By Des Kelly  (Editor-In-Chief) eLanka Sri Lanka Association of NSW Inc – ZOOM GATHERING ON WEDNESDAY, 16TH SEPTEMBER 2020 RIVERSIDE THEATRES DIGITAL PRESENTS: LINGALAYAM IN PANCHA NADAI Kaleidoscope with Savithri Rodrigo Life lessons from RC’s Dramsoc – 50 years ago: By Imtiaz Muhsin Royal Palace of Kandy –By Arundathie Abeysinghe Kidney disease a complication of Diabetes- by Dr. Harold Gunatillake A Life Hack for when we’re Burnt Out & Broken Down – By Uma Panch WHEEL CHAIR PROJECT – LIONS CLUB OF WANTIRNA ...

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