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	<title>Money magazine Comments - Ask Paul: We've paid off our house in our 40s, what now?</title>
	<description>Mortgage-free in his 40s with $300,000 super and $300,000 invested, should Aaron take on debt again? Paul Clitheroe weighs up property versus more shares.</description>
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		<title>Comment by Geoff Mostyn Geoff Mostyn ()</title>
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<p><p>Buying an investment property should be your next step for the simple reason that shares whether they be outright or index are not sufficiently diversified in a major downturn.<p>Direct property investments gives you that cyclic diversity.<p>Adding to your super is tax effective but not at the expense of building a diversified (shares and property) portfolio outside of super that could provide of dividends and rental income, should as you suggest wish to &quot;retire&quot; early at a time when you cannot access your super.</p></p><p><a href="">Reply to article</a></p><p>For original story, <a href="">Click Here.</a></p>
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