Investments
Investing means becoming wealthier by buying and sometimes selling assets that provide income while you hold them and capital when you sell them.
There are two ways to invest and three broad types of investment. We can assist you with all of them.
The two ways to invest are directly or indirectly. Direct investment is where you buy and hold investment assets in your own name (or in the name of some entity that you control, such as a family trust or a self-managed super fund). If direct investment is what you are after, we can help you find the right investments to make and the right ways to manage those investments. A big part of this is making sure that you buy the asset in the right hands. Sometimes this is yourself, but sometimes it is not.
Indirect investment is where you employ an investment manager to buy and hold investment assets on your behalf. We can assist you to identify the managed investment option or options that best suits your circumstance and your goals, and then show you how to access the particular benefits of managed investments to minimise your risk.
The three broad things in which you can invest are shares, property and cash fixed/interest. The specific choice of investment types, and the way in which you mix these choices within your portfolio, is different for each person.
We take the time to assist you to identify which type or types of asset class makes most sense, and then assist you to make either a direct or indirect investment accordingly.
Max Reinhardt
Financial and Mortgage Adviser
Max started in the finance and lending industry in 2000 and specifically financial advice in 2004 after attaining a Bachelor of Economics Honours degree at The University of Sussex, UK before settling in Australia later that year.
Max has never stopped studying as he is always looking at ways he can better assist his clients and has studied many courses in financial advice, lending and technical analysis as he continues to try and stay ahead of his competitors in terms of the knowledge he can share with his clients.
Max has quite a unique philosophy when it comes to investing as he believes the best thing about the market is that you don’t always have to be in it. Contrary to popular belief, his methods have shown that “timing” the market can result in far better results than just “time in” the market.
This has been evidenced with over 100 years of study on the Dow Jones, which has data available dating back to 1910. He has beaten markets significantly during corrections such as the GFC and Covid crash obtaining significant positive returns, whilst markets have fallen between 40-55% approximately. His Facebook page shows a call for the Covid crash 6 months in advance and clients were able to beat the market by circa 85%.
Of course such opportunities do not occur every day, but being able to form read a market does give him an edge over his competitors. His vast technical analysis study and skills can predominantly be credited to the works of W.D. Gann. He is also not afraid to utilise more modern techniques with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence to give him an even bigger advantage.
Max Reinhardt is an authorised representative (301999) of Finchley & Kent Pty Ltd (ABN 50 673 291 079) (AFSL 555169).
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