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.
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Don’t listen to the panic merchants
The world is going to end but you can save yourself by subscribing to… These self-help newsletters, websites and email lists are getting a little bit carried away with themselves.
The Gold price and investment markets
Gold, like diamonds, holds a fascination much greater than its simple financial value. It is malleable, resistant to tarnishing, highly conductive and a fantastic metal to work with (in a previous life i completed a jewellery making course and came to appreciate just how easy gold is as a medium). In some countries, the open … Read more
Trader Update – black boxes are running markets
A quick look at how short term speculation impacts on Australia’s sharemarket.
Comparing House and Share Prices
Many, many people get hung up on whether houses are better than shares as long term investments and vice versa. Logic would dictate that over the long term, houses are a depreciating asset requiring substantial capital to buy or maintain with high transaction costs, and therefore are likely to underperform listed equity, which should overcome these hurdles. However, this ignores key characteristics of the property market as well as issues specific to Australia…
Ever been told the story about ‘the Herd’?
It is not a new story. It’s just the old adage about investors and the trends of markets resembling a “herd” of like-minded folk. Most often portrayed as sharing a common delusion in regards to where they are headed. Quite often the story includes images of the herd merrily stampeding off a cliff, while a … Read more
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Musings on Markets and Mayhem
Sitting here on a Tuesday morning, pondering what financial outcomes are likely to flow from the 7th April moving to the 8th April. Will it be “just another day”?