“Sophisticated investors are people who have a level of wealth and or expertise in the market that excuses the seller of a financial product from the regulatory duty of care. Sophisticated investors are deemed to be smart enough or big enough to look after themselves. Someone with savoir-faire”. Well, in many cases, that’s a laughing…
Tom Wegner It’s a pleasure to write for you all this morning, my name is Tom and I have been working alongside Marcus, Henry and Chris for 3-years now (I do all the hard work, they take all the glory). I am 25 and I live with my twin brother Liam. At the moment I…
The oil price is ticking up after the OPEC+ (OPEC plus Russia) meeting in early December, which saw Saudi Arabia push for the deepest production cuts in a decade. Oil up 2%. OPEC pumps 40% of the World’s oil. They increased production cuts by 500,000 barrels to 1.7m barrels a day – 372,000bpd by OPEC…
I know a lot of you hold big holdings in banks for income, so have we, but it has, in hindsight, been one of the biggest Australian investment mistakes of the last five years. In the last five years, as you know, the banks have been pummelled. It all started with a Commonwealth Bank rights…
One of the many US newswire articles put out a list of 10 reasons why the Dow Jones fell 849 points (which is only 3%) from top to bottom in three days. Here they are with comments from us: Trump upended the US-China trade deal forecast with a single comment. We have to get used…
Season’s greetings, we hope you enjoy our MT Christmas reading list which the team have put together for our members. This is a list of books that have been of great influence, helpful in their investing and research process or have been a great source of wisdom. Not sure what to buy your loved one’s…
A question from the Stock Discussion Group: “Silly question but what would you consider to be a great, an average, and a poor return, from the stock market”. After two days of writing about that (CLICK HERE) and a night infront of the spreadsheets with a bottle of red wine for company, this table turned…
I received an email from a financial adviser once. The email went along the lines that “If you can show me that market timing has produced superior results compared to something as simplistic as buy and hold over a 10 plus year time frame I’ll be shocked and very impressed. Should you have such results…
IDEA OF THE DAY WESTPAC BANK (WBC) Henry: ABC News Breakfast, 26th November To hear more from Marcus Today, sign-up for a FREE 14-day no obligations trial HERE. Events are moving fast this morning. I was on air on the ABC as the news broke that Brian Hartzer had resigned. Hardly a surprise given…
