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Speaker 2: She's on the Money Community. The incredible Miss Jess Gricci
Speaker 2: is going to be sharing our favorite money wins. Miss
Speaker 2: Becksayed as always, has a few cheeky broke tips lined
Speaker 2: up for us, and we're going to be helping to
Speaker 2: answer her money dilemma, wanting to know more about managed
Speaker 2: portfolios and whether they're a good option and something that
Speaker 2: you slid into our DMS about this week. What do
Speaker 2: you do when your partner is getting a little bit
Speaker 2: too obsessed with Black Friday? Oh mister, could you maybe
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Speaker 2: me sometimes working from home has come in clutch because
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Speaker 2: would you guys like the question of the week?
Speaker 1: Yes?
Speaker 2: Please? I feel like there's have been getting unhinged. So
Speaker 2: here's me. I'm reducing this segment. I'm thinking they're gonna
Speaker 2: ask beck on her opinion of Super. No, you guys
Speaker 2: really just took this. You can ask us anything and
Speaker 2: lead with it. The more the better, I say. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it's time for our favorite part or my favorite part
Speaker 2: of Friday Drinks, where literally you ask us questions that
Speaker 2: you are dying to know the answer to, and it
Speaker 2: literally can be about anything, even shopping tips like this
Speaker 2: one from Alisha, who says, where are your girls shopping
Speaker 2: for an affordable black tie dress?
Speaker 4: No?
Speaker 2: No, no, you have to go to the fanciest wedding you've
Speaker 2: ever been to. Where are you're going shopping? I'm going
Speaker 2: to uniclue love. But what are you picking out? Tell me?
Speaker 2: Like the vibe if I say, and I think that
Speaker 2: makes it easier, Like we're not just shopping for a
Speaker 2: black tiev it. Let's say you got hearted to a
Speaker 2: black tie wedding. You love the person, you want to
Speaker 2: look your best. What's the outfit vibe?
Speaker 5: I'm going a satin oversized teatly okay, sleigh, and I'm
Speaker 5: going to do it all the way to the top.
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's gonna be like like a button up okay,
Speaker 2: way to the top and then oversized long pant business
Speaker 2: pant ye ye.
Speaker 5: With a belt and so you can I'm pretty sure
Speaker 5: you can get. I don't know about the satin part
Speaker 5: of this outfit.
Speaker 2: I feel like Unicloid does do satin, yes, or you
Speaker 2: just get a giant shirt.
Speaker 5: Also, I never know the difference between T shirt and shirt.
Speaker 5: I'm saying shirt with the button.
Speaker 2: Shirt has like the collar and the button us. Okay,
Speaker 2: shirt is like that rounded neck that you're we you
Speaker 2: got you got to you so shirt.
Speaker 5: And then I'm just honestly for shoes, whatever the hell
Speaker 5: you want, because you make it up look nice. But
Speaker 5: I think just honestly going a kmart and getting like
Speaker 5: those school shoes.
Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good. You've got a pair of those. Yeah
Speaker 2: you look shaking them. Thank you so much.
Speaker 5: And I wouldn't be spending more than for yours, unfortunately
Speaker 5: because they can't. But if I was going to really
Speaker 5: really go out, I don't have a place in mind
Speaker 5: other than Nuklo.
Speaker 2: I'm so sorry, but I kind of love that's like
Speaker 2: Beck showing up as Beck. Thank you. Yes, I can't,
Speaker 2: And when the question came through, I'm like, I cannot
Speaker 2: for the life of me. Imagine you no getting into
Speaker 2: a black tied dress and being comfortable. Yeah, no, do that,
Speaker 2: I'll try, Jess. Where are you shopping?
Speaker 4: I think for the best price secondhand is the go
Speaker 4: Facebook marketplace deepot because obviously black tie is quite formal.
Speaker 2: My favorite.
Speaker 4: I don't want to say it's super cheap, but you
Speaker 4: can pick things up on sale. Meshki does a love
Speaker 4: really great range from more casual through to what I
Speaker 4: think is totally fine for black tie.
Speaker 2: Now they have a whole segment on their website called
Speaker 2: black Tie.
Speaker 4: They don't even realize that money wim and I think
Speaker 4: that they do sales pretty frequently. You can do cash
Speaker 4: back and things like that to help bring cross down.
Speaker 4: But relative to what you can find yourself spending for
Speaker 4: black tie, I think they're quite a reasonable price point
Speaker 4: for a lot of their pieces.
Speaker 2: Okay, I agree. A lot of my formal dresses historically
Speaker 2: have actually come from Chic. Oh she does gorgeous. Yeah,
Speaker 2: and I find I don't know why you are so planned,
Speaker 2: but like, yes, you're right deep hop, Facebook, market Place,
Speaker 2: et cetera. Well, yeah, if you've got the time or
Speaker 2: honestly hiring a dress. That's something that I have been
Speaker 2: doing a lot of recently because I just know I
Speaker 2: want a dress that I've not worn. It's black tie.
Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I know already I'm never gonna wear it again.
Speaker 2: I've got this one black tie dress that I bought
Speaker 2: during UNI that honestly I wore for every single UNI
Speaker 2: event because like, sorry, it was from Chic, which is
Speaker 2: you know, I just always was there, but like every event,
Speaker 2: I just wore that dress when it was like uniball
Speaker 2: or whatever because I was like, well, I don't have
Speaker 2: the funds to go buy a new dress, and like,
Speaker 2: I really like this one, so I just kept wearing
Speaker 2: and it looked really good. Not gonna lie, but yeah,
Speaker 2: I would go chic if I didn't have the time
Speaker 2: to source something. But you bought a formal dress not
Speaker 2: long ago. Was it racquet Club?
Speaker 5: Oh?
Speaker 2: Yes, rack Club are great. Yeah, I remember you being like, gee,
Speaker 2: this was like thirty dollars and I have no event
Speaker 2: to wear it too, but like I just know I'm
Speaker 2: going to get aware out of this.
Speaker 4: Yeah.
Speaker 2: Yeah.
Speaker 4: They're a consignment store, which is another really good option.
Speaker 4: So they're in Melbourne. They have I think three locations.
Speaker 4: I've sold stuff there to. It's great for that as well.
Speaker 4: But yeah, similar thing like a consignment see might have luck.
Speaker 4: And I feel like formal dresses are something that a
Speaker 4: lot of people do sell on because you wear it
Speaker 4: once maybe twice, and you go, oh, I don't know
Speaker 4: that I would wear it again, So you can often
Speaker 4: pick them up places like that really cheap.
Speaker 2: Do you know what I would also recommend if you've
Speaker 2: got a good friends group, which I know some of
Speaker 2: us don't have that. But if you've got a good
Speaker 2: friends group, shop their wardrobes. Oh yeah. Like in our
Speaker 2: office at work, it just goes, oh my god, I've
Speaker 2: got a wedding coming up. I'm always like, if I
Speaker 2: have any dresses you want, you let me know, Like,
Speaker 2: you can borrow whatever. If you've seen me on like
Speaker 2: on Instagram in it or like, you know it's in
Speaker 2: my wardrobe. It's fair game. Like I just love the
Speaker 2: idea that my cost per wear is being brought down
Speaker 2: by other people as well. I've done a few Victoria
Speaker 2: Divine specials over the years. Yeah, but like, I don't know.
Speaker 2: It's so funny because I know some people who'd be like, oh,
Speaker 2: I'd never lend out my wardrobe. I get such joy
Speaker 2: out of the fact that I picked a dress. I
Speaker 2: loved it. But then like Jess didn't just go oh
Speaker 2: yeah that was pretty nice Bee, She's like, can I
Speaker 2: borrow it? Yes, Queen, looks so good on you too,
Speaker 2: Like I love that you loved it too. Yeah, that
Speaker 2: is a good feeling. Yeah, sorrying's a great tip. You're borrowing.
Speaker 2: We're borrowing dresses. From our friends. Honestly borrowing silk shirts
Speaker 2: from our friends. Absolutely ten out of ten. I feel
Speaker 2: like we've nailed that question. Would you like to get
Speaker 2: into the money, wins and confessions of this week, Jessica,
Speaker 2: I would love.
Speaker 4: To, if that's all right. I'm going to start off
Speaker 4: this week with one from Hannah. She's actually paid off
Speaker 4: and closed her after pay after having to rye on
Speaker 4: it for the last couple of years. It felt really
Speaker 4: bloody good, Queen and everyone else who's doing the same thing.
Speaker 4: It's greats to money went from Claire, who said she
Speaker 4: went to Ikea to buy a chair cover. After picking
Speaker 4: one up, she passed through the as e Is section
Speaker 4: on her way out and found the exact same one
Speaker 4: there for half of the price. The Aussiest section is
Speaker 4: my favorite set at Ika if they're right by the
Speaker 4: checkout and it's where they sell all the stuff that
Speaker 4: was in the display rooms. I assembled properly by like
Speaker 4: someone who works in Ikia knows how to do it,
Speaker 4: and it's like it hasn't been used, it's just been
Speaker 4: sitting there.
Speaker 2: That's so good. My favorite part of Ikea is the
Speaker 2: cafeteria where you can get the meatballs absolutely.
Speaker 4: After we spoke about it, maybe a month or two ago,
Speaker 4: I went and got meatballs.
Speaker 2: For Did she actually stop it? It's so close to
Speaker 2: the studio. I'm so jealous. We can do it today.
Speaker 2: Didn't invite us? I know what the hell, let's do
Speaker 2: it today. Thats not your kids? We all secretly because
Speaker 2: I was going to go too. But if we all
Speaker 2: ready each other, let's do it after this, let's hear
Speaker 2: it after this. That sounds fair? Th mexticot.
Speaker 4: A money went from Jessica excellent name, who said a
Speaker 4: bit of an old one, but her favorite spin studio
Speaker 4: ran a specialty class and then afterwards took all the
Speaker 4: women to Lulu Lemon to get a.
Speaker 2: Free pair of leggings.
Speaker 4: Sorry, what she said, pretty epic return on a thirty
Speaker 4: five dollar class. She'd never normally spend that much money
Speaker 4: on a pair of leggings. What I'd like to sign
Speaker 4: up for this class?
Speaker 2: Please? Sorry? How do we get in on? That sounds slight?
Speaker 2: I love a little still them they all just went
Speaker 2: in and just like a HIJACKX you imagine. No, No,
Speaker 2: we don't do that, Yeah we do, we don't. Lastly,
Speaker 2: this week, I've got a money win from Adriana who
Speaker 2: said her car insurance was to you. She asked them
Speaker 2: to lower the annual price due to her having three
Speaker 2: separate policies with them, so they did it by fifty dollars,
Speaker 2: which put it back to the same price as last year.
Speaker 2: They said they were going to resent her the policy.
Speaker 2: They didn't resent her the policy, so she followed up
Speaker 2: and they took another sixty bucks off for the inconvenience win.
Speaker 2: It pays to be inconvenience sometimes. Absolutely. Learning from this
Speaker 2: absolutely that's everything for me. This I love that. Miss
Speaker 2: becksay ed, what have you got when it comes to
Speaker 2: broke tips? So this week I got a couple of
Speaker 2: good ones. The first one comes from Katya. She says
Speaker 2: that if you hit escape really.
Speaker 5: Quickly when you're going to like read an article and
Speaker 5: a pay wall comes up escape, if you hit escape
Speaker 5: really quickly, then you can sometimes avoid the paywall. And
Speaker 5: so our gorgeous producer did some research on this and
Speaker 5: it is true. Quickly eating the escape key upon a
Speaker 5: page loading can sometimes prevent a paywall from appearing by
Speaker 5: interrupting the pages loading process, which I.
Speaker 2: Know is like it depends on the it depends on.
Speaker 5: The side, like I do feel bad, like I don't
Speaker 5: want to steal content, but also like why can't I
Speaker 5: just read the article?
Speaker 1: You know?
Speaker 2: Personal peppe is news behind a paywall.
Speaker 4: If you are a creator putting totally out, Oh yeah,
Speaker 4: I think you suck.
Speaker 2: No, not at all, but like, yeah, the nature of
Speaker 2: what it is news should be for public consumption. I agree,
Speaker 2: I agree. I don't know. That's my hot take. I
Speaker 2: completely share another one that I may or may not use.
Speaker 2: So the second it starts loading, I can't control a
Speaker 2: control C, so like can select everything control C. I've
Speaker 2: copied it because then, as you guys probably know, you
Speaker 2: can start reading the article and then the pop up
Speaker 2: comes up. So if you can get that control a
Speaker 2: control C before that happens, I then cut and paste
Speaker 2: it into a word document and read it on my
Speaker 2: own computer. Oh my god, I haven't tried the escape thing.
Speaker 2: I didn't even know what the escape key did, so
Speaker 2: I'm going to give that a crack as well. But
Speaker 2: that has been my hack for reading paywalled articles that
Speaker 2: maybe or I didn't want to pay massive God that
Speaker 2: what you will. We're not telling you how to live
Speaker 2: your life. We're just kidding. Do you think that's ethical.
Speaker 2: That's totally okay. Don't do it completely because we wouldn't.
Speaker 2: We're not doing it. We're not going to do it.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 2: I mean when I say I do it, I was
Speaker 2: just making a suggestion that I might be able to
Speaker 2: do it. Yes, it's a clever idea that you haven't
Speaker 2: tried yet. Yeah, as somebody who writes for a publication,
Speaker 2: who often puts my articles behind paywalls, I'd hate for
Speaker 2: you to have that information absolutely because you don't write
Speaker 2: that for just anyone. Yeah. Well, there you go, and so.
Speaker 4: There you go.
Speaker 2: Okay. The next one comes from Lisa.
Speaker 5: So this was like a thread asking for holiday saving STIPs,
Speaker 5: and I thought this was really interesting.
Speaker 2: Lisa said that she does a supermarket cleaning collect.
Speaker 5: Or delivery order before she leaves, like the health, the
Speaker 5: accommodation she's saying it, or like a holiday when she's
Speaker 5: going on holiday exactly, so she only has to eat
Speaker 5: out once a day. That means that she doesn't have
Speaker 5: the option of like deciding not to go shopping when
Speaker 5: she gets there, and she doesn't have to waste the
Speaker 5: time doing the shopping as well, she can just like
Speaker 5: enjoy her holiday so I'm like, trick yourself into like
Speaker 5: doing like yeah, like a click and collect or like
Speaker 5: a delivery order or something like.
Speaker 2: It's a really great idea. Every time we've ever gotten
Speaker 2: you guys already probably know this, but every time I've
Speaker 2: gone on holidays with Jess, I'm like, so, where's the
Speaker 2: new a supermarket? Not gonna lie. If we're traveling internationally,
Speaker 2: I don't want to do click and collect. I want
Speaker 2: to Yeah, that's inexperience going through an international market, getting
Speaker 2: to see their cereal aisles, like what brands they have
Speaker 2: like for me, that's part of the holiday. I love it.
Speaker 2: I love it. I'm always like, oh, do you want
Speaker 2: to go into that supermarket? Do you want to go
Speaker 2: into that deli? Like, maybe I'm not the person you
Speaker 2: want to travel with, but yeah, I always go get
Speaker 2: like a cereal and a coffee option for the mornings,
Speaker 2: for sure. I don't want to eat out every single meal. No,
Speaker 2: I know it is quite experienced.
Speaker 5: I always look for the grocery store wherever I am,
Speaker 5: even if I'm with in Australia. Something about being and
Speaker 5: woolies is so companying. This next one is from Jess Ricky.
Speaker 2: Actually, if you don't mind. So we put a whole
Speaker 2: thread in our Facebook group every single week so that
Speaker 2: our community can share. And then you just go, yeah,
Speaker 2: just give me, give me hot I think I know
Speaker 2: what this one is and it is a good one.
Speaker 2: Oh it's crazy. She's got tickets on this too.
Speaker 5: Yeah, it is right right, you know what that's actually
Speaker 5: pun and you'll soon figure out why. So to celebrate
Speaker 5: the opening of the Metro Tunnel, two months of free
Speaker 5: travel will apply every Saturday and Sunday from early December
Speaker 5: twenty twenty five to the first of February twenty twenty
Speaker 5: six for all public transport within Victoria. Isn't that amazing?
Speaker 2: That is actually very cool? And now my ticket comment
Speaker 2: does make sense, makes a lot of sense. No ticket required,
Speaker 2: you guys, that is a money win. Could we make
Speaker 2: it a little bit better? Like, can can you have
Speaker 2: your people call my people or something and talk about
Speaker 2: extending that for like even a week so that everyone
Speaker 2: can save on their my keys for work and then
Speaker 2: like really stash some extra cash. Lovely, I don't know
Speaker 2: about the weekend. I'll take what I can get. I
Speaker 2: want to be greedy, but also I'm really greedy.
Speaker 5: I think like, either never end it just weekends forever free,
Speaker 5: I would think, or yeah, make it like the whole
Speaker 5: week for a few months.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I also reckon that the Victorian Premier should call
Speaker 2: the Queensland Premier and they should talk. Yes, because for
Speaker 2: those of you not following, Queensland get fifty cent public
Speaker 2: trans yes. Do they rude? Right? Very nice? I know,
Speaker 2: I know, well fair enough. I have your people call
Speaker 2: their people and their people tell you how to do
Speaker 2: your job.
Speaker 5: It really makes me upset and I'm not going to
Speaker 5: linger on this for too long. But people that are
Speaker 5: already struggling to get by and then they're like, oh cool,
Speaker 5: I finally found a job.
Speaker 2: Oh it's going to cost me fifty dollars a week
Speaker 2: to get there and you don't have the cash, and like,
Speaker 2: you don't have it, just give us public transport for
Speaker 2: free during a week, yeah, because I feel like that
Speaker 2: take a lot of pressure off a lot of people. Absolutely,
Speaker 2: or just do it for fifty cents. Sorry, why can
Speaker 2: Queensland do it exactly?
Speaker 5: And actually, you know what we'll pay on the weekends
Speaker 5: during the week. No, we try to take my taxes.
Speaker 5: And that's my vergue tip for this week.
Speaker 2: Do you know what, that's a really good one. I
Speaker 2: will allow the fact that you got Jess to do
Speaker 2: your job. Thank you Jess anytime. Okay, don't cut this out.
Speaker 2: That is naughty. I actually like your opinion. Beck, stop
Speaker 2: trying to steal Jess. Yes, Sam, or let's go to
Speaker 2: a really quick break because on the flip side, we're
Speaker 2: going to be talking about a money dilemma. Wanting to
Speaker 2: know more about managed portfolios not managed funds, and something
Speaker 2: that you slid into our DMS about what do you
Speaker 2: do when your partner is getting a little bit too
Speaker 2: obsessed with Black Friday? And it's definitely not from Jess's partner,
Speaker 2: So you'll see you on the flip side. Guy.
Speaker 4: Welcome back, everybody. Let's take a listen to this week's
Speaker 4: money dilemma.
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Speaker 7: Hi, she's on the money. I have a question regarding
Speaker 7: our favorite topic of investing. I currently have two different
Speaker 7: apps for investing. I have a Chez's account and Better
Speaker 7: Shares account. With the Chas's, I'll just have a few
Speaker 7: ETFs and direct shares that I put money into when
Speaker 7: I can, and the Beta shares are recently opened up
Speaker 7: a high growth managed portfolio and I aim to put
Speaker 7: two to three hundred a month into that. My question is,
Speaker 7: are these managed portfolios actually worth it? I pay three
Speaker 7: dollars a month. I know that changes per platform, per portfolio,
Speaker 7: and how much you've gotten it, but I was doing
Speaker 7: a bit of overreading, we would say, a bit of
Speaker 7: analysis paralysis into these managed portfolios, and people say that
Speaker 7: it it is not worth it, and you can just
Speaker 7: kind of buy their ETFs or shares yourself.
Speaker 6: Yeah.
Speaker 7: I just wanted to know what your thoughts are on
Speaker 7: these managed profolos and if they're were it.
Speaker 2: Thanks? I love this. I think that's a really good
Speaker 2: question because like, these managed portfolios online are incredibly transparent,
Speaker 2: so you can go to and she mentioned Beta shares
Speaker 2: and I've just gone to their website, just to make
Speaker 2: sure that I've got, you know, a really good handle
Speaker 2: of what's going on. And it reminds me a lot
Speaker 2: of our friends at Life Sirpa. They do something really
Speaker 2: really similar. I feel like they might hold your hand
Speaker 2: a little bit more than just a Beta shares like
Speaker 2: managed portfolio. But anyway, we can get back to that.
Speaker 2: We can talk about that later. But the cool thing
Speaker 2: about this is, yes, you could go in today and
Speaker 2: replicate the beta shares platform, like you could log in,
Speaker 2: go have a look at their website exactly like I am.
Speaker 2: Have a look at their managed portfolios. They are super transparent.
Speaker 2: They're like, okay, cool. If you're an aggressive investor, these
Speaker 2: are the ETFs we would pick with you. The problem
Speaker 2: with you going in and going, well, I don't want
Speaker 2: the fees. I don't want to be associated with that.
Speaker 2: I wanted, you know, do it myself. That's fantastic. You
Speaker 2: could absolutely do that. But the managed portfolio part means
Speaker 2: they ongoingly manage the rebalancing the construction of that portfolio.
Speaker 2: They are going to choose when an ETF exits your portfolio.
Speaker 2: So if they're like, oh, this one's not performing as well,
Speaker 2: we're going to drop that out. They're going to pick
Speaker 2: up another option and just put it into your portfolio
Speaker 2: without you lifting a finger. So today, yes, they are
Speaker 2: being very transparent on what they would pick, but that
Speaker 2: doesn't mean it wouldn't change and be ongoingly managed. And
Speaker 2: the fees are reflective of that. So that's why people
Speaker 2: might ask questions like, oh, you could just do yourself.
Speaker 2: You totally could. I do it myself. But every single
Speaker 2: six months ish, I go back in and I analyze
Speaker 2: every single one of my ETFs and I make sure
Speaker 2: that they're performing the way I want. You know, I
Speaker 2: might sell down some to rebalance it over because I have.
Speaker 2: And we've spoken about this before, and this is probably
Speaker 2: a good plug to go back and listen to the
Speaker 2: episode that I did with Brooke on her investing portfolio.
Speaker 2: We talk about how we have It's basically a pie chart,
Speaker 2: and I know that I want fifty percent of my
Speaker 2: portfolio in this particular asset, and then I break up
Speaker 2: the rest of my portfolio across different assets. And then
Speaker 2: every six months, I get that pie chat out and
Speaker 2: I sit it in front of me and look at
Speaker 2: my portfolio and go, is this still replicated? Am I
Speaker 2: still comfortable with this breakdown, Do I want any changes?
Speaker 2: And then, because the market always ebbs and flows, like, yes,
Speaker 2: I have for this period of time invested fifty percent
Speaker 2: of the amount I invest into that ETF. But let's
Speaker 2: pretend it performed really well. Okay, Now my portfolio is
Speaker 2: actually more than fifty percent of that ETF because it's
Speaker 2: been performing so well, and I have a dividend reinvestment plan,
Speaker 2: so I often will make the decision to sell down
Speaker 2: some of that stock and redistribute it into the other
Speaker 2: parts of my portfolio so I can maintain the percentages
Speaker 2: I have chosen. They do that for you, Yeah, so
Speaker 2: they're going to have the finger on the pulse and
Speaker 2: all you have to do is keep sending money their way.
Speaker 2: They are going to charge a fee for that service,
Speaker 2: but for most people, that is a fee that is
Speaker 2: worthy of paying. And I won't talk about beta shares specifically,
Speaker 2: that's just what this community member has written in about.
Speaker 2: But there are lots of different managed portfolio options on
Speaker 2: the market where they say, hey, JS, we'll manage it
Speaker 2: for you. Yeah, and like to me, if you don't
Speaker 2: want to have as high a touch option as you know,
Speaker 2: when I go into my shares is account and I
Speaker 2: have to look at my portfolio and go, oh, what's
Speaker 2: that looking like? Perfect? Some of us don't want that,
Speaker 2: but we want that middle ground between. Well, I'd love
Speaker 2: to do it myself because I love the idea of
Speaker 2: those fees. I don't want to go see a financial
Speaker 2: advisor because I don't want to pay those fees, but
Speaker 2: I still want more support than DII. Does that make sense, Yeah, totally.
Speaker 4: Yeah. My only thing with the an issue that I
Speaker 4: would just flag is that I think the beta shares
Speaker 4: one from a cursory look, I'm not super familiar with
Speaker 4: it personally, but I think it's just ETFs they manage.
Speaker 2: Yeah, so that's just what they've constructed their portfolio of.
Speaker 2: For some other managed funds, you might find that they
Speaker 2: are a managed fund and they hold twelve different direct
Speaker 2: shares that they manage, and they would chop and change
Speaker 2: out of that, and it would really depend on the
Speaker 2: company issuing them. I'm not surprised, and I quite like
Speaker 2: Beta shares as a business. They are fantastic. But if
Speaker 2: you've not heard of them before, they are one of
Speaker 2: the biggest issuers of ETFs in Australia. So they've clearly seen, well,
Speaker 2: we construct ETFs all the time, let's put this product
Speaker 2: over the top and have a different team pick from
Speaker 2: basically all our ETFs to create a portfolio that ongoingly
Speaker 2: is managed for a client. It's good business from them
Speaker 2: from my perspective. But then the other thing I would
Speaker 2: say there is if you're going to go to a
Speaker 2: beta shares, it's like going and seeing a mortgage broker
Speaker 2: who works for a bank. So you're only going to
Speaker 2: get beta shares ETF options. They're not going to go
Speaker 2: pick a vanguard option because that's not in their best interests.
Speaker 2: So that's where if you're looking at this and going, oh,
Speaker 2: that actually sounds really good, v Like, I love the
Speaker 2: managed portfolio idea, but you're going to go direct to
Speaker 2: an ETF, I can guarantee all of their managed portfolios
Speaker 2: are just made up of different selections of their product.
Speaker 2: You're not getting the whole market, whereas a product like
Speaker 2: life Sherpa would be able to actually just they might
Speaker 2: have a beta shares, they might have a vanguard that
Speaker 2: might be looking at a black rock over here, and
Speaker 2: they kind of take everything on the market and then
Speaker 2: construct your managed portfolio.
Speaker 4: Yeah, and they're a nice middle ground two in terms
Speaker 4: of price point because they don't do like a full
Speaker 4: written advice and it doesn't come with the expense that
Speaker 4: we know is really prohibitive.
Speaker 2: To a lot of people.
Speaker 4: Whereas you know the way that they do it. They
Speaker 4: do a little bit of robo but they also have
Speaker 4: people there that you can pick up the phone and
Speaker 4: speak to. So it's a little bit of a step
Speaker 4: further than the managed fund with beta shares, where I
Speaker 4: think you just buy it, or any managed fund, you
Speaker 4: just buy it and you know, let it tick away
Speaker 4: in the background. Sometimes you know, people want a person there.
Speaker 4: So that makes it a really good I guess next
Speaker 4: stepping option across the spectrum.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and the last thing I want you guys to
Speaker 2: take from that is like, oh, the beta shares is
Speaker 2: not a good option. It is, but that's why I
Speaker 2: want you to look at all of your options on
Speaker 2: the table, but then also have the pros and cons,
Speaker 2: Like beta shares do great ETFs, they have really good performance,
Speaker 2: they have a really good track record. They may have
Speaker 2: top five every year, yeah, but they're always in our
Speaker 2: top five. I've met with so many people on their
Speaker 2: team before they are so delightful. But it would be
Speaker 2: a miss of me to not be really pragmatic about going. Okay, cool,
Speaker 2: but it is like going direct to the bank for
Speaker 2: a loan and not looking for the rest of the
Speaker 2: options that might be on the table that maybe suit
Speaker 2: you a little bit better. But you could also go.
Speaker 2: But I really like be I'm the same as you.
Speaker 2: I really trust them, I'm miss I'm that. So you
Speaker 2: just go with the beta shares option. It's not necessarily
Speaker 2: going to impact your performance because every ETF issue are
Speaker 2: is going to construct them in a way where they're
Speaker 2: trying to perform their best too. Yeah, so is it
Speaker 2: the worst? No, But I also want you to have
Speaker 2: like the black and the white and make the decision
Speaker 2: for yourself. I'm not going to be like, yep, fantastic option,
Speaker 2: off you go. Yeah, but yeah, you'll never get that
Speaker 2: from me. I'm so sorry. No, it's so fair.
Speaker 5: That's great advice. I this is in my wheelhouse. But
Speaker 5: I trust everything you say. Oh thanks, babe, always haven't
Speaker 5: always will.
Speaker 2: The next ones for you? Don't you? Would you like
Speaker 2: to hear the next one? Absolutely? All right, So we're
Speaker 2: going to slide on into our DMS and read out
Speaker 2: one of the spiciest ones we got this week, which surprisingly,
Speaker 2: my favorite part about this is it's anonymous for you
Speaker 2: guys and every single one of our listeners. I know
Speaker 2: who you are already looked at your Instagram profile. It's James.
Speaker 2: Imagine that's where I go and to ruin our own fun,
Speaker 2: Beck was it wasn't James. But that's okay, so hey,
Speaker 2: she's on the money. I'm starting to get anxious about
Speaker 2: Black Friday. Normally, my partner and I are on exactly
Speaker 2: the same page with money. We share finances and we're
Speaker 2: not big spenders. We've got other goals that we're currently
Speaker 2: working towards. But it's like something flips in him every
Speaker 2: single year. Every time something he wants comes up, he says,
Speaker 2: I'm going to add it to the Black Friday list,
Speaker 2: and then his lips get out of control. I get
Speaker 2: that technically we save money if we shop during Black Friday,
Speaker 2: but to me, the list is not essential things that
Speaker 2: we actually need. I don't want to come across as
Speaker 2: controlling or like I'm telling him what he can and
Speaker 2: can't spend money on. But I also feel like he's
Speaker 2: falling right into what the sales are designed to make
Speaker 2: us do, which is overspend. How do I get him
Speaker 2: to see that? And what would you do for you?
Speaker 4: And me?
Speaker 2: Well, how the tables have turned?
Speaker 3: Who and I love it?
Speaker 2: You're like, the guy's the bigger spender. Oh yeah, yeah,
Speaker 2: that's a silly little girl thing. Men do it too, Absolutely.
Speaker 2: Men spend money and they go, oh, good on you, mate,
Speaker 2: you deserved that, or good investment. I spend a boat frivolous. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 2: So what would I do?
Speaker 5: I think, first of all, the fact that this person
Speaker 5: has enough self control, your partner has enough self control
Speaker 5: to be like, I'm going to add this to the
Speaker 5: list of things that I want to buy when it's
Speaker 5: really heavily reduced. I think that is incredible. It's an
Speaker 5: incredible place to start. But I also think, like, in
Speaker 5: the it probably feels like there are things that you
Speaker 5: guys don't need, but like maybe because there are so
Speaker 5: many things that bring us joy, and the fact that
Speaker 5: he's putting these on a like in a list of
Speaker 5: things to buy in the future means that it's very likely.
Speaker 5: I don't know if this happens, because you see, you
Speaker 5: do seem to be worried that it's all all everything
Speaker 5: in the list is staying in the list. But I
Speaker 5: think if you spend you kind of wait a long time,
Speaker 5: like as you say, VD, like leave twenty four hours
Speaker 5: between you and your purchase, then you kind of end
Speaker 5: up being like, oh, I don't really need that anyway.
Speaker 5: So I feel like having a list of things that
Speaker 5: are just like luxury items is a good idea to
Speaker 5: have anyway, because it's probably they're probably not all going
Speaker 5: to make it when it comes to Black Friday time.
Speaker 5: But I think like allow each other those little treasures
Speaker 5: and honestly thank your lucky goddamn stars that they are
Speaker 5: not like me, and just like, oh my god, I
Speaker 5: want that. I'm going to buy that right now. I
Speaker 5: don't even care to take a line of credit out.
Speaker 5: I don't have to get a credit card or after pay.
Speaker 2: I do not care. There's nothing that's stopping me from
Speaker 2: And then Matt go back up, we're working on that
Speaker 2: right now.
Speaker 8: No judgment, Yeah, I would just say, but obviously, like
Speaker 8: if these things are like if it's kind of gotten
Speaker 8: to the point where it's like I don't care if
Speaker 8: it financially ruins us, I'm buying these at Black Friday,
Speaker 8: no matter what.
Speaker 2: That's a different story. But if it's like.
Speaker 5: They're not going to financially cripple us, it's just like, hey,
Speaker 5: you don't need to be like buying these luxury items.
Speaker 2: We don't need them.
Speaker 5: Then you know, maybe whittle it down to two or
Speaker 5: three things that bring you joy and then just stick
Speaker 5: with those per year. But I wouldn't worry too much personally.
Speaker 2: I would be interested to know. I want to see
Speaker 2: the list. I'm so desperate. I would love to see
Speaker 2: the list.
Speaker 4: I totally agree our listeners on the money in the
Speaker 4: sense when they say that, you know, the marketing sales.
Speaker 2: Periods are designed.
Speaker 4: You know, they're built with strategies that utilize psychology and
Speaker 4: things like that to make us spend as much money
Speaker 4: as possible. Like, let's be really upfront, that's the ultimate
Speaker 4: goal of all of these companies is to sell as
Speaker 4: much product as they can and make as much money
Speaker 4: as they.
Speaker 2: Can, and they're doing it really well. It do me
Speaker 2: really well.
Speaker 4: I think that, as we have said on the show
Speaker 4: many times, you can utilize these sales to your advantage.
Speaker 4: Something that you are going to buy anyway, whether it's
Speaker 4: a necessity, whether it is a little treaty treat we
Speaker 4: were talking about, like the Ninja products on like.
Speaker 2: The Amazon Prime Day sales.
Speaker 4: If that's something that you knew was on you know,
Speaker 4: Christmas list for the kids or something like that, and
Speaker 4: you were going to make the purchase anyway, it does
Speaker 4: make sense to buy it on sale. What I would
Speaker 4: be interested to know is is your husband keeping this
Speaker 4: list throughout the year not spending incidentally throughout the youngs
Speaker 4: fun money is banking up and going hard during Black Friday,
Speaker 4: because in that instance, I actually think that it may
Speaker 4: not be so bad. And the way that you can
Speaker 4: crash check this is do you have a budget. If
Speaker 4: you have a budget, do you have fun money allocated?
Speaker 4: If you do, you maybe spending your fun money every month,
Speaker 4: Like this's what I do. I we have a certain
Speaker 4: amount that I say I can spend this every month,
Speaker 4: and I do.
Speaker 2: Every month I spend it. She's really good at it. Actually,
Speaker 2: we talk about it in the office like the other
Speaker 2: day one of our team members, because we've been on
Speaker 2: work trips and like in and out of the office
Speaker 2: a lot recently. She's like, be my fun money from
Speaker 2: the last few weeks has banked up now I have
Speaker 2: extra fun money dream and now I have analysis paralysis
Speaker 2: over how I can spend it.
Speaker 4: That's what I mean, right, So if he had fun
Speaker 4: money throughout the year and he wasn't spending it, yeah,
Speaker 4: you know, if you guys don't have a firm budget
Speaker 4: system in place, it might be a little bit harder
Speaker 4: to track.
Speaker 2: But I would just keep that as a consideration because.
Speaker 4: I think if one of you is maybe spending within
Speaker 4: your means throughout the year and one of you isn't,
Speaker 4: it's not the worst thing. If that's all then being
Speaker 4: spent during sale time. If that's not the case, then
Speaker 4: he has just gone a little bit buck while going whoa,
Speaker 4: it's all on sale, which, like I mean, we've all
Speaker 4: been there. I think it is just a matter of
Speaker 4: maybe sitting him down, running the numbers a little bit.
Speaker 2: I feel like that's what I always come back to you.
Speaker 2: I just want to know what's on the list, Like
Speaker 2: only you're not saying it's essential, but like why is
Speaker 2: it on a list ongoingly? It's not like an impulse
Speaker 2: purchase from the way that you've written it. It's like
Speaker 2: a list that he's been tracking, like it might be
Speaker 2: you know, like Jess the Ninja and you really really
Speaker 2: want it. It's been your list for ages and you've
Speaker 2: been thinking about it and thinking about it, and you're like, no,
Speaker 2: I'm happy to spend that couple of hundred dollars and
Speaker 2: I want to get the best steal. Is that what
Speaker 2: it is? Or is it just like he just sees
Speaker 2: it as free money and he's been making this laundry
Speaker 2: list of luxury products you guys genuinely do not need
Speaker 2: and you don't even know if he's going to use them,
Speaker 2: and he doesn't check the list twice. He's like, I'm
Speaker 2: just going to buy the list when it comes up,
Speaker 2: Like I want to know the mentality around that. But
Speaker 2: same as Jess, Like what's your budget look like? And
Speaker 2: what does your fun money allocated look like? And maybe
Speaker 2: we're not even questioning the list, Like maybe we're sitting
Speaker 2: down and being like, hey, like we're planning on doing
Speaker 2: some spending in the future or around Black Friday, Like
Speaker 2: what do we actually have budgeted for this? Like what
Speaker 2: off the list can we afford to get or not?
Speaker 2: As opposed to like breaking down his list in his
Speaker 2: middle ground, only carefully curated for a specific purchase and
Speaker 2: you know, you might come to the conclusion together. You
Speaker 2: know what, you don't need a new TV. You already
Speaker 2: have a TV and that one works really well. But
Speaker 2: to him it might be a more of a priority
Speaker 2: than you thought it was, So I don't think breaking
Speaker 2: down the list first is maybe the wisest decision. Then
Speaker 2: you're telling him kind of that his values aren't as
Speaker 2: valid as what you think they are. And I wouldn't
Speaker 2: want anyone to feel bad about their decisions around money,
Speaker 2: especially sorry you're starting a list, you're checking it twice
Speaker 2: a find out who's not or not exactly what we
Speaker 2: got to exactly. And the other additional layer is maybe
Speaker 2: you could open the conversation up about, hey, how do
Speaker 2: we make the most of these sales? Christmas is coming up?
Speaker 2: You know, it's my friend's birthday coming up, and I
Speaker 2: know that it's like her thirtieth, so I know I'm
Speaker 2: going to be buying a present. Should we be talking
Speaker 2: about all of those things now, so that the sales
Speaker 2: are not just you know, benefiting us and luxury items
Speaker 2: that we want to buy, but also putting us in
Speaker 2: a better financial position. Because I don't think a lot
Speaker 2: of people and I have this year right there, Christmas
Speaker 2: lists early enough to then go oh, I've picked up
Speaker 2: Becks and Jesses and this and that during a sale,
Speaker 2: because the closer you get to Christmas, the less sales
Speaker 2: there are going to be. There's going to be a
Speaker 2: whole heap of promotion. They're going to say that things
Speaker 2: are discounted, but they're never as discounted as they are
Speaker 2: during Black Friday or host Black Friday, just because they
Speaker 2: know that you're more desperate for it and you're going
Speaker 2: to pay for it. Yeah, you're not going to find
Speaker 2: sales on Christmas Eve, baby cakes, that's not going to happen.
Speaker 2: They know that you're now desperate buying yeah, and that
Speaker 2: wasn't maybe a planned purchase, and they're going to make hey,
Speaker 2: well the sun is shining basically. So we obviously also
Speaker 2: asked the community because sorry, my favorite thing is your opinion.
Speaker 2: Couldn't agree more. Oh I love reading through this and
Speaker 2: being like, oh, that's spicy. So we first said what
Speaker 2: would you do if you were our community member? This
Speaker 2: was pretty split. Forty five percent of you said separate spending,
Speaker 2: budget limits and the other forty five percent said compromised
Speaker 2: with a shared agreed list seven percent of you said
Speaker 2: leave him to spend however he wants, and two percent
Speaker 2: said I'd push to skip Black Friday altogether. Okay, fine.
Speaker 2: Next question I asked was what are your Black Friday vibes?
Speaker 2: Thirty eight percent of you very she's on the money,
Speaker 2: said I'm going to use it for Christmas gifts only gorgeous.
Speaker 2: Thirty five percent of you said managed to stick to
Speaker 2: my list and my budget. Seventeen percent of you said
Speaker 2: I'm actually unsubscribing from everything Black Friday, and then ten
Speaker 2: percent of you said get carried away and I am overspending. Yeah.
Speaker 2: We then said, all right, what's your two cents on
Speaker 2: this question? First person said, I put money away each
Speaker 2: month for Black Friday sales. I do have a list
Speaker 2: of essentials for myself, and I also have a plan
Speaker 2: for my Christmas shop. Brilliant. Next person said, spending on
Speaker 2: something you don't need because it's on sale is not saving.
Speaker 2: It is still spending. I love that quote. That's one
Speaker 2: of my favorite quotes because it you're true. I feel
Speaker 2: like we say it in the office all the time
Speaker 2: and people are like, oh my god, it was like
Speaker 2: forty percent off, and we're like, was it or did
Speaker 2: you play sixty percent true. Oh, if you were in
Speaker 2: the office more often, Beck, I think you would be
Speaker 2: horrified at the conversations we have. Like the other day,
Speaker 2: I was talking to one of our team members who
Speaker 2: really wants the new iPhone, and I was just like same, yeah.
Speaker 2: I was like, you don't need it. She's like, yeah,
Speaker 2: I do. Like it's got a better camera. And I
Speaker 2: was like, you've got a camera. You do not need
Speaker 2: another one camera. Yeah. No, sorry, I'm just no, no, no,
Speaker 2: You've got a phone that works. And these things come
Speaker 2: out every single twelve months, So another twelve months from now,
Speaker 2: you're going to be wanting the iPhone eighteen? So do
Speaker 2: you want that one? Like, let's just put it off, Like, well,
Speaker 2: you've got something that works. Yeah. Oh yeah, we're savages
Speaker 2: in the office. That's a great point. We're much kinder
Speaker 2: to the community than we are to each other in
Speaker 2: the office. Down. Yeah, we're like Jessica, put it down,
Speaker 2: just step away from the next person said the over
Speaker 2: consumption and american ness actually just gives me the ex
Speaker 2: so I skip. Next person said, do you have a
Speaker 2: shared goal that his spending is going to interfere with
Speaker 2: or are you better? And I'll do two more. Next
Speaker 2: person said, it's not a sale if they hike the
Speaker 2: price for the month before, then bring it back down
Speaker 2: for like Friday.
Speaker 4: That's always worth checking because some people do do that
Speaker 4: some places.
Speaker 2: True. And then someone said, I will only ever order
Speaker 2: something if it's like fifty percent off, not the silly
Speaker 2: five to twenty percent. Impletely agree. Do you get that anytime? Yeah? Absolutely?
Speaker 2: All right, Well That's where I'm going to leave it there.
Speaker 2: But I do feel like I just need to have
Speaker 2: a values conversation. What's a comeback to jess communication that's
Speaker 2: been so wild for a wild all right, will have
Speaker 2: a good rest of the day, guys, and we'll see
Speaker 2: you bright and early on Monday morning for a money
Speaker 2: Darry Bye, Bye, guys. Bye.
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