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Jun 27, 2025
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How to manage stockmarket risk
Jun 27, 2025
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Explore the data behind stock market returns and why holding a diversified portfolio is crucial for long-term success. (2 mins read)

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Jun 27, 2025
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May 21, 2025
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Financial Planning Is More Than Numbers (to me)
May 21, 2025
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Joseph Portelli shares why a personal experience of how being a financial adviser can help people through life's most challenging transitions. (2 mins read)

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May 21, 2025
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Apr 29, 2025
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The Consequences of Having No Will or Power of Attorney
Apr 29, 2025
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This article considers the impact of dying without a Will in place or losing mental capacity without a Power of Attorney (2 mins read).

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Apr 29, 2025
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Apr 7, 2025
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Trump's Tariffs and the Economic Consequences
Apr 7, 2025
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Trump’s Tariffs won’t succeed at making the U.S more self-reliant (3 mins read)

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Apr 7, 2025
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Categories
  • About Lorica Partners 13
  • All 135
  • Annual Review 9
  • Cybersecurity 2
  • Family Legacy Planning 6
  • Federal Budget Updates 11
  • Financial Market Updates 23
  • Investment Education 57
  • Living a Better Life 38
  • Property 3
  • Retirement and Estate Planning 12
  • Sustainable Investing 3
The Third Generation Loses it? Wrong.

Coming to wealth is hard. Adapting to wealth can be harder. So for a family that will be passing substantial assets to future generations, what are your chances of success? (5 mins read)

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Rick WalkerFebruary 1, 2023Family Legacy Planning, Investment Education, All
Lorica Partners certified as a B Corporation

Lorica Partners is now a certified B Corp, joining a global community of businesses focused on building a better society (2 mins read). 

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Rick WalkerJanuary 20, 2023About Lorica Partners, All
2022 Year in Review

2022 was a tough year for investors – one of the worst in 40 years.  But it was not all bad news (3 mins read).

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Rick WalkerJanuary 16, 2023All, Annual Review
How to Want Less

The secret to satisfaction is not to increase our haves—that will never work, writes Arthur C. Brooks

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Rick WalkerJanuary 3, 2023All, Living a Better Life
The Power of Not Having A View

Standard & Poor’s has been publishing their SPIVA or ‘S&P Indices Versus Active’ research reports for 20 years. We review their key findings (3 mins read)

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Rick WalkerDecember 9, 2022All, Living a Better Life
Living a Better Life in 2023

The last three years have been rough. As we approach a new year, we wanted to provide some ideas for how you can plan to live well, and perhaps better, in 2023. (2 mins read)

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Rick WalkerDecember 1, 2022All, Living a Better Life
Tips for protecting your personal information

To help ensure your ‘scam radar’ remains strong to protect your personal information, here are some practical tips for dealing with emails, texts and phone calls (2 mins read)

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Rick WalkerNovember 10, 2022All, Cybersecurity
We Have Seen This Before

Investors face uncertainty in 2022, but not for the first time. How have markets performed through recent periods of uncertainty? (3 mins read)

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Rick WalkerNovember 1, 2022All, Financial Market Updates, Living a Better Life
October 2022 Federal Budget

This article covers announcements most likely to impact clients of Lorica Partners and their families (2 mins read)

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Rick WalkerOctober 26, 2022All, Federal Budget Updates
5 important investing lessons from a leading academic

Professor Ken French has contributed to Nobel prize winning research into the behaviour of security prices. We recently listened to him share his “5 things I know about investing” (6 mins read)

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Rick WalkerSeptember 30, 2022All, Investment Education, Living a Better Life
Expect Market Volatility and You'll Win

Imagine the difference to your investing experience – and your investment returns – if you accept sharemarket volatility as the price of admission for growing your wealth (3 mins read).

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Rick WalkerSeptember 1, 2022All, Investment Education, Living a Better Life
What makes a Good Life?

A 75-year Harvard study into what keeps us happy and healthy as we go through life shares its results (watch video)

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Rick WalkerAugust 1, 2022All, Living a Better Life
The Gap and the Gain

Many people are unhappy because of how they measure their progress. When you take stock of your accomplishments rather than your ‘ideal’ moving target, it can have enormous psychological benefits (3 mins read).

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Rick WalkerJuly 1, 2022All, Investment Education, Living a Better Life
Why bonds go up and down

Bonds are low risk assets to hold, but their prices can still go up and down. This article explains why (3 mins read)

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Rick WalkerJune 22, 2022Investment Education, All
Bear Markets are Common and Offer Higher Expected Returns

Last night the US stockmarket officially became a ‘bear’ market, meaning the market has fallen 20% from the recent high. We look at how markets have performed 1, 3 and 5 years after a 20% market decline. The answer is good news for investors (3 mins read).

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Rick WalkerJune 15, 2022All, Living a Better Life, Financial Market Updates
Long-term investors embrace times like these

When prices fall, it is normally because investors have become more risk adverse, and uncertainty about the future has increased. Markets are highly efficient information processing machines – but no one pretends they are 100% accurate all the time. But profiting from ‘mispricing’ is not easy. (4 mins read)

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Rick WalkerJune 1, 2022Investment Education, All
The Perils of Buying Direct Stocks

It can be a roll of the dice guessing which stocks will be the ‘winners’. We go back 20 years to see how a portfolio of blue-chip Australian stocks with strong growth prospects actually performed against simply buying the market (3 mins read).

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Rick WalkerMay 6, 2022Investment Education, All
Staying the Course

Market volatility, inflation and geopolitical risk are leading many of us to feel some anxiety at present. The four most dangerous words in uncertain times are ‘this time is different’ (3 mins read)

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Rick WalkerApril 28, 2022All, Investment Education, Financial Market Updates
Do you really want to retire?

A Canadian psychologist we collaborate with provides his 6 questions you should ask yourself before making the decision to retire from the workforce (3 mins read)

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Brendon VadeApril 1, 2022All, Retirement and Estate Planning
2022 Federal Budget

This article covers announcements most likely to impact clients of Lorica Partners and their families (3 mins read)

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Rick WalkerMarch 30, 2022All, Financial Market Updates, Federal Budget Updates
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