Lower Oil & Interest Rates No Market Panacea

Posted by The Fundamental Analyst on Aug 12th, 2008

The bottom is in for the stockmarket, didn’t you know? Oil has shed more than 20% in the last month. Add to that the RBA now has an easing bias and you have a powerful catalyst for stocks. If only it were that easy. As is my penchant, I will take the opposite side of [...]

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Lessons from the ANZ Staff Superannuation Scheme

Posted by Scott Keefer on Aug 12th, 2008

An interesting development within the ANZ Staff Superannuation Scheme provides some lessons for investors – keep investment costs low and don’t follow the highly active, high fee approach promoted by ANZ and the other big banks.

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Along For the Ride, Just Like a Flea on a Dog’s Back.

Posted by strudy on Aug 11th, 2008

In the share market I do not mind hitching a ride with strangers because I understand that I am not a partner in that business or company. Thinking you are a “Partner” just because you own some shares in the company is one of the most “FATAL” beliefs in the market. Accept who you are [...]

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Refuting Michael Pascoe’s optimism about continued growth

Posted by cij on Aug 11th, 2008

This article was originally published in at the Contrarian Investors’ Journal. If you have any comments, please direct them to the original article here. As we all know, there are a lot of chatters about recessions in the Australian media recently. As always the case, there are two opposing camps of perennial optimists and committed [...]

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Use Your Equity to Invest

Posted by admin on Aug 10th, 2008

This is the second article of our educational  finance tips series from our friend at BoringBanker.com that talks about equity and leveraging to increase your wealth. I previously talked about equity in “use your equity” and looked at using equity to minimise your interest costs. Here, I’ll take that a bit further and talk about [...]

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Dollar Cost Averaging – Well worth consideration

Posted by Scott Keefer on Aug 8th, 2008

There is no hiding that share markets around the world have had a poor year to the end of June 2008, and July has not provided any real comfort. History tells us that there will be an upswing in returns but unfortunately it does not provide us a guide to the exact date of that turn around. It could be tomorrow, in a month, the next quarter, a year or even multiple years time.

A number of investors may be now sitting in the position where they have accumulated cash and are pondering whether it is time to be buying into growth assets. This could be through accumulated savings, hesitancy to invest over the past 9 months or you may be the holder of managed funds and have recently received income distributions into your portfolio.

If you take the decision to buy into growth assets a wise option would be to undertake a dollar cost averaging approach. So what is dollar cost averaging and how might it protect you from downside risks?

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A Criteria For Picking Profitable Stocks.

Posted by strudy on Aug 7th, 2008

This week our friend at ASXNewbie.com brings you a couple of smart tips on how to pick profitable stocks. The guidelines provided are brief and suitable for beginners and would serve as a good reminder to seasoned investors. Are there any other important tips you want to offer for the young’uns ? Let us know.

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Turning Bad Publicity into Good

Posted by Greg on Aug 7th, 2008

Imagine you have a business which is constantly criticised by the politically correct who seem to be able to get airtime effortlessly. How do you compete? You can advertise, but this is just dismissed as self promotion, and of course the largest outlet for the politically correct, the ABC doesn’t allow advertising (unless you are [...]

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Get Ready For Rate Cuts

Posted by The Fundamental Analyst on Aug 7th, 2008

Back in mid-June I posed the question, Is the RBA Done? Yesterday I think we got an answer. Whilst the RBA left the cash rate unchanged at 7.25%, the accompanying statement gave a hint of what was to come. Here is the money quote: Weighing up the available domestic and international information, the Board judged [...]

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Use your equity

Posted by admin on Aug 6th, 2008

This is the first article of our educational  finance tips series from our friend at BoringBanker.com .Today we find ourselves with the topic on Equity and how we can take advantage of it with sensible planning. The other day a friend asked me to help her with a personal loan to pay for her upcoming [...]

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