IDEA OF THE DAY If we could show you how it was possible to generate a 6% return, using Top 100 equities and hybrids, would you be interested? Well, that’s what we’ve got for you today. In the last in our series of income investing articles we have constructed the GOLF PORTFOLIO – a portfolio for the investor…
I cannot tell you how many times I have read that you double your money in Australian property investment every ten years. It is the core assumption in all property marketing it seems. Of course to make any money out of that implied 7 per cent return per annum your rent has to cover your…
This was written in 2014…. A friend is trying to decide whether to send their child to the local Catholic School or the local Private School. They have a choice and have asked me to do a few numbers. Here’s the benefit of having the Lord by your side: If you assume that all other…
In bull markets (remember those) share prices move gradually in a constant reflection of earnings and value and investors enjoy a rather predictable progression in share prices. Investing is based around research and it’s all pretty straightforward. The current market is nothing like that. The current market is not being priced on value or earnings,…
YOU TOO CAN BE A FOREX TRADER So the $A goes through parity, in the other direction this time, and again every Tom Dick and Harry is suddenly a currency expert. The same thing happened when it first rose through parity in October 2010. It’s as if the Aussie dollar hitting the big figure miraculously…
1623, Tulip Mania. A single tulip bulb sells for a thousand Dutch florins, seven times the average annual wage. The average tulip trader makes sixty thousand florins a month. 400 times the annual wage. 40 bulbs sell for 100,000 florins. You could have bought 3,333 pigs for the same price. People were selling possessions to…
From 1941 to the low in 1974, the average annual compound return on the All Ordinaries Index for 33 years was 2.9 per cent per annum. Take off inflation of 4 per cent and you were going backwards. And that doesn’t include 1929 to 1941, which would have pulled it even lower. In the next…
Anyone who’s been to Las Vegas will know what I mean when I say it’s a place that everyone has to visit but no one wants to stay. I tried to get married again. Elvis was prepared to pick us up from out hotel in a stretch limo, take us to the chapel, be our…
I gave a presentation once. It was in the middle of the day so the only people there were the ones with no jobs, most of whom had given life to a baby boomer. After my hilarious dissertation on the benefits of long term investment one senior member rose to take the floor and said…
