What a week in banking, but has anything changed

Posted by NathanK on Sep 20th, 2008

Commercial Lenders go back to basics, where perhaps they should never have strayed….

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Time to have a look at your asset allocation?

Posted by Scott Keefer on Sep 20th, 2008

After 9 months (or more for listed property investors) of really tough conditions the question to be asking yourself is how have you gone handling not only the 25% or more falls on equity markets but also the significant turbulence (volatility)?

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Bank of America Offers to Buy Merrill Lynch

Posted by Debbie on Sep 16th, 2008

Bank of America has offered to buy Merrill Lynch in an all-share deal valued around USD$45 billion. In return it gets everything - good and bad at Merrill’s, including all of Merrill’s 16,500 “financial advisers”, its brokerage revenues and its collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).
This isn’t the first takeover by Bank of America. In fact they [...]

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How to stop investment markets dictating your retirement date

Posted by Scott Keefer on Sep 16th, 2008

Numerous media items over the past few months have focussed on the doom and gloom being experienced by superannuation returns. In this article we look at the long term returns from balance style superannuation funds and suggest how to protect against having investment markets dictate your retirement date.

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Somethings to Consider When Buying a Stock.

Posted by strudy on Sep 15th, 2008

I always employ a stop loss whenever I buy a stock. I see it is a form of insurance.
But it has a twofold purpose as it stops you having a too great a loss and you can use it to lock in those profits by using a trailing stop loss as the share [...]

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The ABC Sneers at Small Business

Posted by Greg on Sep 14th, 2008

As the self appointed mouth piece of state enterprise (is that an oxymoron?), it is well known that the ABC deeply dislikes big business. Now it is showing what it thinks about small business in their new program “Very Small Business”.
This is a missed opportunity. The program could have shown how the little guy puts [...]

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Consumers Expect Inflation Rate to Fall

Posted by Debbie on Sep 14th, 2008

At the same time the Melbourne Institute released its survey of consumer inflation expectations. It shows that consumers are feeling quite positive about the direction of inflation. The survey tells us consumers believe inflation will fall in September to 4.4%. We will wait to see how accurate this survey is. In the same survey 9.8% [...]

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Property 2009: Crash, Boom or Stagnate?!

Posted by cij on Sep 7th, 2008

Property has been a popular route to wealth for many Australians for many years. Buying their own home is often the first investment many people make; purchasing another property may well be the second even before shares and other assets. It has been said that property prices can be less volatile than share prices though not always and it tends to be regarded as a safe haven when other assets are declining in value.

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US Labour Market Continues to Deteriorate

Posted by The Fundamental Analyst on Sep 7th, 2008

On Friday, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics released the monthly non-farm payroll report which showed a net -84,000 jobs were lost in the month of August. That makes the 8th straight month of job losses for the US economy. Below are the main job loss and gain catergories;

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The Reality of How Investment Markets Work

Posted by Scott Keefer on Sep 5th, 2008

We have all experienced or witnessed a torrid time on investment markets in recent times starting back with listed property mid 2007, carrying over into global equity markets and then Australian equity markets. Emerging Markets have not been spared with some of these markets, China for instance, falling the furthest. Fortunately, August has seen a slight rebound across the board but the verdict is still well and truly out on whether the worst is over.

In such times it is really important to sit back and consider the reality of how investment markets work. To assist with this our firm have put together a document setting out the five key realities.

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