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The media is rife with stories of the negative impacts of the Global Financial Crisis, but there have been many new developments of a more positive nature that do not get coverage in the tabloids or gain airtime in the electronic media. Upside to the GFC - Lower Interest Rates Increase Housing Affordability Interest rates are down, considerably. The cost of a mortgage is well down on the rates being charged just eighteen months ago. Monthly repayments on variable mortgages are lower in line with lower interest rates, and if the repayments have remained the same the principal of the loan is reduced as the interest component of the repayment is a lesser proportion of the monthly installment. This allows the homeowner to get ahead, and create some contingency to delay payments for a whi...

The 2008 financial crisis was a wake-up call for anyone with money in the stock market. The crash took off nearly 40% of the S&P 500’s value and everyone who had most of their money in stocks or mutual funds took a major hit to their finances. It would be years before indexes rose again to match what had been lost that year. The shakeup became a pivotal moment for high net worth investors and anyone who wasn’t content to watch their wealth disappear in the blink of an eye like that. Knowing that economies are cyclical, and the next market crash is always waiting around the corner, savvy investors started looking for alternative assets. Although prone to their own cycles and speculative bubbles, these had to be assets that operated differently than the stock market. They needed to...

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