Is there a financial bias in media and commentary towards do-it-yourself strategies? And if there is, is it disclosed or obvious or even apparent?
Do-it-yourself financial bias
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Interest rate jitters
What keeps this financial planner awake at night? Currently, it’s thoughts about “the anchoring fallacy” and the impact it can have on money and plans for the future.
Risk on, Risk off but do you want to play the game?
“Risk on, risk off” is a phrase used to denote the massive trading shifts taking place at institutional levels in the post-GFC (“global financial crisis”) world. The phrase encapsulates the skittish approach investors have taken to the day-to-day news and data feeds that are highlighted on the evening finance news segment. The question for us…
Predicting fantastic investment returns in markets
My tea-leaf prediction…. we will start to see more and more fund managers and super funds start to brag about their investment returns.
Australian Sharemarket Long Term Views
Investors and their financial planners have now endured over 5 years of turmoil since the onset of the Global Financial Crisis. The extended nature of this slump in markets of all types has sapped the energy, patience and temper of everyone connected to the world of money. As i have a number of times before,…
A hundred billion dollar error in the housing market
There are few arguments more heated than those based around the future direction for house prices. i am about to make some statements that many people will find disturbing so please, if you have a weak stomach for discussion on house prices, change channels now… A hundred billion dollar error One of the great difficulties that…
Your children, and the world of money
With all the gloomy news about falling retail sales, declining house prices, and small business access to credit, the average person can be forgiven for thinking that “things are bad”. In times such as this, it is natural for a parent to worry about the world that their children will inherit, and the financial problems…
Investment Market Turning Points
It is so easy to forget that investment markets change direction in a way that can only be identified in hindsight.
A little bit of perspective on money
There is a pointy-end of physics that studies the impact observations have on processes. One version is encompassed by the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. It is my thought that this principle should be applied to the world of money, as much as it is applied to quantum physics. Here’s why… It implies that it is impossible to simultaneously measure…
Sharemarket Update
Here is a 6 minute update on where the Australian sharemarket currently stands, including a brief discussion of the major issues currently impacting on share prices. httpvh://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HJ8ZKfQp48 Australia’s sharemarket is scaring people There is a lot of fear and misinformation out in the marketplace at the moment. A good deal of it appears to me…
