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Short Seller Taken to Court

Posted by Debbie on Nov 9th, 2008

We have no idea who Giovanni Spagnolo is. We don’t know whether he is a professional trader, a small investor, a fund manager or anything else. But what we do know is the Australian Securities & Investment Commission (ASIC) has taken him to court for short selling. To be more precise, for naked short selling. [...]

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Money Tip without the Boring Stuff

Posted by Ask_Josie on Nov 2nd, 2008

It is a tough world out there.   How do you find a financial planner that you can trust?   First and foremost, we are not demigods (although I think I have met some that believe they are half human, half God). It is not the first time you have heard me say that finance professionals cannot predict the future (obviously).   It [...]

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ANZ Bank Writes Off $1.9 Billion

Posted by Debbie on Oct 24th, 2008

There’s a phrase going around at the moment. Something about a pig wearing lipstick. The gist of it – quite cruelly – is that pigs are still ugly even if a Revlon “Super Lustrous” lipstick is applied to the kisser. We think we can safely say that the ANZ Bank [ASX: ANZ] profit results this [...]

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Reasons Why This Market Hasn’t Bottomed Out Yet

Posted by Debbie on Oct 13th, 2008

The crash on equity markets is not over. As for the S&P/ASX 200, the All Ordinaries Index price action has cleared one after the other its intermediary support levels that may have temporarily stopped the current continuous decline. First, a few figures to clearly understand the strength of the turmoil: since the historical high posted [...]

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What Is The Hardest Thing Any Trader Will Face?

Posted by DeanWh on Sep 1st, 2008

Visit forums, join memberships, purchase tuition with member areas for support, read books, talk to fellow traders etc and you can be guaranteed you will come across many who will be struggling with a whole host of reasons why. Some will even appear as experts but beneath the surface are struggling with some aspect of [...]

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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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Sound Investing Podcast – Well worth a listen

Posted by Scott Keefer on Aug 2nd, 2008

This blog provides a summary of a great podcast of a regular weekly radio segment on investing.

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Investing for income

Posted by Scott Keefer on Jul 2nd, 2008

This blog looks at the topic of investing for income

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Moving to a more defensive position. Can it work in tough times?

Posted by Scott Keefer on Jun 29th, 2008

Robin Bowerman, Principal and Head of Retail at Vanguard, has written a recent article for Vanguard’s Smart Investing e-newsletter – Playing defence: can it work in tough markets. In the article Bowerman refers to a Vanguard study looking at whether investors would be better off using economic / market signals to move portfolios into a [...]

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It pays to get good quality financial advice

Posted by Scott Keefer on Jun 19th, 2008

Two pieces of reading came to my attention over the past week that both give some prudent insights into why it pays for investors to get “good quality” financial advice. The first was an article in the Australian’s Wealth supplement that is published every Wednesday. The lead story for this week started with the following [...]

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