The global financial crisis and a series of scandals have turned a critical light on much of the investment industry and led to public questions about the role and value of financial advisors.

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The family home or as described for tax purposes, the main residence is one asset that is provided an exemption on capital gains tax where certain criteria are satisfied.

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It wasn’t all that long ago that the financial dream of most was to be a millionaire. Although the term millionaire still seems to have some cachet, in the year 2011 it hardly constitutes immense wealth. If fact even Dr Evil in those Austin Powers films had a 1950’s view of millionaires when his price for not destroying the world was “a million dollars” – until he realised he needed to radically inflate that figure.

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It's very tempting to try to time the market, but very few people, not even the professionals manage to profit from it consistently.

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