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Investment in telco companies: broadband and mobile data growth plus low valuations and low expectations? 13 Jun 2010 | 11:36 pm
Telcos: the dotcom crash all over again? One of the market themes that is starting to looking interesting is telcos. You know, those boring mature industries, whose fixed phone line legacy business is...
K Rudd magic & why the mining super-profits tax is a superannuation tax 1 Jun 2010 | 06:39 pm
My utmost admiration for the government on the Miner’s Super-tax. There’s a true symmetry to this which just has to be mentioned. It’s called a Super tax because it’s a tax on ‘Super-profits’ in the m...
The volatile world of the video games investor 14 Dec 2009 | 05:25 pm
Video games: still a long term growth story For a few years now the video/computer games sector has looked attractive as an investor. As most people would now be aware video games have passed movies ...
Commercial property trust / REIT investment using an Exchange Traded Fund (ASX:SLF) 8 Aug 2009 | 06:34 pm
In the never-ending quest for the unpopular asset class that you might be able to pick up on the cheap it is difficult to go past commercial real estate at the moment. But there are a few problems: co...
Dollar cost averaging in volatile equity markets 22 Jul 2009 | 12:47 am
Does dollar cost averaging really work better in a volatile equity market? Say that your equity market outlook assumes that one of two scenarios is true. Either: You expect equity markets to be volat...
Cheapest online supermarket shopping: Coles Online or Woolworths Homeshop? 14 Jun 2009 | 10:46 pm
Why Woolworths and Coles pricing matters Supermarket expenses account for about 16% of our annual household expenditure for our family of 4 (2 adults, 2 children excluding mortgage costs). In cash ter...
Public beliefs about long term investment returns from different asset classes 3 Jun 2009 | 11:03 pm
Staggering (to me anyway) study out from Gallup a couple of weeks ago about the public’s beliefs about which asset classes offer the best long term investing returns. When asked “which of the follow...
Superannuation & government deficits: political risk is back 18 May 2009 | 03:13 pm
Watching the Obama government fiddle around with the various creditors in Chrysler (and in other government bailouts where political calculations are coming into play in Australia and the UK) it’s pre...
Superannuation & government deficits: political risk is back 18 May 2009 | 11:13 am
Watching the Obama government fiddle around with the various creditors in Chrysler (and in other government bailouts where political calculations are coming into play in Australia and the UK) it’s pre...
How to create a bear market rumour: US bank ‘stress test’ results 25 Apr 2009 | 04:29 pm
In the old (pre-internet) days to create a market rumour you actually had to go to the trouble of making a phone call to a broadsheet journalist. As a university prank we rang a major newspaper’s Prop...
