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On May 12, 2025, the U.S. and China reached a pivotal agreement to pause mutual tariffs for 90 days, signifying a rare moment of easing tensions that have significantly influenced global trade patterns in recent years. However, it is crucial to understand that this temporary calm does not guarantee lasting stability. While market reactions might focus on these headline developments, astute investors should focus on a more profound and strategic transformation: the reorientation of Australian trade flows, particularly with India.
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Embarking on a career in dentistry can be daunting, given the myriad of specialties and work environments available. While clinical skills are crucial, personality traits significantly influence career satisfaction and success. This article explores how the Big Five Personality Traits can shape your work style, patient interactions, and choice of dental specialty.
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As a dentist, financial planning is a critical aspect of your career, especially given the unique challenges you face, such as high student debt, the complexities of practice ownership, and the need for effective retirement planning. Navigating these financial waters can be daunting, but understanding how your personality traits influence your financial decisions can be invaluable. Your personality not only affects your risk tolerance but also shapes your investment strategies, leading to more tailored and effective financial planning.
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Dentistry extends beyond clinical expertise; it requires strong leadership, teamwork, and business acumen. While technical skills ensure precision in treatments, self-awareness serves as the foundation for career growth and professional success. Understanding your personality can refine your communication style, enhance decision-making, and foster a thriving workplace culture.
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Your personality isn’t just about how you interact with people—it also influences which dental specialty and work environment will bring you the most fulfillment. The Big Five Personality Traits—Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism—offer valuable insights into which path may suit you best.
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Why the Big Five? Understanding the workings of our own Big Five gives us insights into and may even predict how we will react, think, decide, feel and behave when circumstances arise. As much as it is important for a share/derivatives trader, so it is for medical professionals who are involved in emergencies or critical patient care.
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Investors constantly look for the best investment ideas to deliver the returns they desire. Be it the promise of an investment instrument, or an expert's view or the best-performing fund, our hopes hinge on making the next best call. But there is one area that is usually overlooked - your "Money Personality" and how it affects your investment performance.
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As investors move towards second half of the financial year, the moving parts of the markets are moving again. By the end of June '24, as the financial year concluded, the Australian stock market saw a 12% increase (dividends included). During this same period, the S&P 500 has maintained a robust growth of 21.5%. As investors move towards second half of the financial year, the moving parts of the markets are moving again.
Read More >June 2024 expectation of interest rate paths by JP Morgan
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After a decline in April, the markets regained stability and achieved a slight increase for the month. As of June, the overall market situation appears stagnant, but beneath the surface, there are significant sector rotations and divergences.
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ProsperaMed brings attractive discounted rates for medical businesses. Speak to us about your requirement
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Are you looking to buy a clinic or start one? We can help with finance and more.
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As we move into mid May, let’s evaluate three top of mind questions: Is this positive trend sustainable, have I missed the rally and should I be investing more of the same for the rest of year?
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Unlocking the Potential of Property Purchase with an SMSF Structure
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As equities markets around the world climbed stealthily higher in March, we investigate if economic strength undergirds the Australian market. We take a bottom-up approach; starting from households to small and then listed businesses.
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Registered nurses may be eligible for Westpac's medico LMI waiver policy up to 90% LVR. Minimum income threshold of $90,000 per annum.
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Purchasing a clinic is a big commitment and an arduous task. Obtaining finance is only the start
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The month of February was about “old” highs being smashed and new highs reached. Let’s take a look at what’s been going right and what needs to be right for us to be alright.
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Are you looking to buy a medical equipment but have less than 1 year business history?
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Do you know what your Big Five Dimensions are? What is your Money Personality?
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If January 2024 was the month when Indices climbed towards their previous all-time highs and slightly more, then February would be the month mindsets were broken and a new psychological level of 7700 breached.
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Where did the year end cheer come from? Let's take a look together.
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The fall in lithium price has been severe, where to from here?
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October brought the third down month in a row for the ASX. Many of the issues markets were contending with are still being played out. Investors continue to have the need of balancing the scale of a soft landing on one side and recession on the other.
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In the month of September, we saw indices going backwards. In addition, following the FOMC meeting the US experienced a 10 year Treasury yield surge.
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If you think Sequencing Risk is that of a consideration of older investors, then you can't be more wrong - starting early has the benefit of time working on your side.
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Investors should structure their investments in a way that can help manage Sequencing Risk.
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The timing of negative returns could leave one vulnerable to Sequencing Risk, and can have a great negative impact on the value of one’s wealth at retirement.
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When you have a hunch about a stock or a sharp instinct for a trade, the first step should not be to follow it, but to make a trading plan.
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Trading is as much about knowing yourself as it is about the techniques, and once you understand yourself as a trader, you can begin making smarter, more informed trading decisions.
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Looking forward from August, we are back to focusing on the interest rate rhetoric. The timing of the US recession and China have implications for Aussie stocks beyond that of global economic growth
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In July 2023 the market moved further towards a 'Goldilocks' sweet spot.
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In June 2023, we entered a period of growth, but will earnings be resilient?
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May 2023 seemed to have been a month of low volume, with market participants' hands in the pocket.
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