Buying and Selling on Price

Posted by Greg on Aug 29th, 2008

All businesses should endeavour to create points of differences for their product or service, but what about if you are selling an undifferentiated product, something that is truly a commodity, such as petrol or even bottles of Coca Cola (which of itself is not a commodity, but you will get exactly the same product whether [...]

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Financial Topic Explained - Emerging Markets

Posted by Scott Keefer on Aug 29th, 2008

I wrote the following brief article on Emerging Markets for my most recent email newsletter and thought it may be of interest to the readers of OurFinanceBlogs.
Australian investors tend to have a very strong home bias towards Australian equities. We often see prospective clients seek advice and they have predominantly Australian investments. Over the past [...]

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Beware of the Pump and Dump.

Posted by strudy on Aug 29th, 2008

All too often we jump in and suddenly find ourselves out of our depth.
The stock we have just bought because it was going upwards in price quite nicely. And of course we did not want to miss out did we? So we dived in as quickly as we could.
It has now suddenly stopped, [...]

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US House Price and Sales Declines Slow

Posted by The Fundamental Analyst on Aug 27th, 2008

Case Shiller Home Price indexes continued their record declines in June, the 10 city composite showing a year over year decline of -17.0% from a year earlier and is now down -20.3% from the peak whilst the 20 city composite showed a year over year decline of -15.9% and is now down -18.8% from it’s [...]

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GDP Adjusted Olympics Medal Tally

Posted by Scott Keefer on Aug 26th, 2008

Now that the Beijing Olympics is done and dusted I wanted to put an economic spin on the results. (This might be particularly useful to quieten down annoying friends from the UK, USA or Germany but not to be used with kiwis unfortunately!!)

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Research is the Name of the Game.

Posted by strudy on Aug 18th, 2008

I do most of my research after the day’s trading has finished. Firstly I look for stocks that have performed well today and add them to my prospect list. This number varies from time to time but the average number can be as high as 50 or so.

The reason for so many prospects is [...]

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Analysts Still Playing Catch-up on Earnings

Posted by The Fundamental Analyst on Aug 18th, 2008

A theme that I have been harping on for the best part of a year is earnings. Earnings cycles never last much more than about 5 years. However, analysts being the optimistic bunch they are, often project 10 or more years of steady earnings growth into their models.
Thus they never anticipate turning points in the [...]

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Why are Australian banks not willing to lower mortgage rates?

Posted by cij on Aug 17th, 2008

Australian banks have been under pressure from many fronts to lower their mortgage rates in response to a possible interest rate cuts from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA). The government and opposition parties are demanding that the banks should do the ‘right’ thing by easing the strain of the working majority. The RBA added to the pressure by declaring that it sees no reason why mortgage rates should not lowered in response to monetary easing. The media poured fuel into the fire by accusing the banks of greed.

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Sharemarket volatility & how markets rebound from lows

Posted by Scott Keefer on Aug 15th, 2008

There is a lot of commentary around at the moment about volatile share market returns and how to pick when or if we have reached the bottom of the decline. No matter whether you are a proponent of market timing or not, history tells us that now is not the time to be thinking of switching out of equities into cash and fixed interest.

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Impact of a Falling Dollar

Posted by Scott Keefer on Aug 15th, 2008

The recent fall in the Aussie dollar exchange rate will inevitably cause investors to consider how best to invest in international markets. This blogs provides an understanding of the concept of hedging and discusses the decisions that need tobe made when considerig whether hedging is the right way to go.

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