FINANCIAL GLOSSARY If you find errors or omissions please email us – Click Here A Australian Clearing House – ACH – The Australian Clearing House Pty Ltd, the subsidiary of ASX which clears options and futures traded on the ASX. Australian Financial Services Licence – A licence granted by ASIC that authorises a person…
What are your options? After last week’s article, we now know what you get when you buy a share. But the question remains – how should we be investing our hard-earned? Before getting into the nitty-gritty of investing styles, risk profiles and portfolio construction, we need to have a look at some of our options.…
What are you actually buying? Now that we know how the stock market was born, let’s have a look at what it actually means to own a share. Stocks, shares, equities, securities. Lots of different words for a slice of the pie. We hear the words, see the news and buy the codes, but what…
The Birth of the Stock Market Us modern day investors can buy and sell stocks at the click of a button. We can see the price and details of any stock in the world with a quick google search and can get our rolling market fix daily through tv, radio or online news sources. But…
Mirvac Group (MGR) is engaged in real estate investment, development, third-party capital management and property asset management. MGR has three main segments, each responsible for the following Office & Industrial: manages the office and industrial property portfolio to produce rental income, along with developing office and industrial projects. Also manages joint ventures and properties for…
The question of existence has fascinated students of philosophy for centuries. In the fifteenth century Rene Descartes produced the famous philosophical conclusion “cogito ergo sum”. Or in English “I think therefore I am”. My wife has been thinking a lot of late, particularly about the Tax Office web site. She’s been talking to them too,…
The press are carrying articles today talking about the performance of the biggest Super Funds. Here are the biggest 20 funds by size showing the size, number of Members, average balance and growth in member numbers or otherwise. I know there is this generally accepted view that fund managers always underperform and if you look…
Listed Investment Companies, known as LICs, are effectively a managed fund with the main difference being that they are traded on the ASX like a share instead of being unlisted and traded through the fund manager’s administration system. So for one trade, on the ASX, through an LIC, you can buy a portfolio of shares…
Goodman Group is a global integrated property company, engaged in owning, developing and managing industrial property and business space in the markets across the world. The principal activities are investment in directly and indirectly held industrial property, property services, property development (including development management) and fund management. GMG’s segments include Australia and New Zealand, Asia,…
