With the major banks accounting for 25% of the ASX 200 you can argue that they also account of 25% of total brokerage available to brokers. Trading banks is an essential part of broking, persuading people to buy and sell banks is a foundation activity for commission generation. Is it any surprise then that the…
My article on Franking Credits on Livewire, click to read: BEST PERFORMING FUNDS We have systems that track fund manager movements. As a private investor you can track fund managers through their monthly or quarterly investment fund reports available on their websites. Almost all fund managers provide these monthly reports on their funds. These almost always…
You don’t have to be a genius to work out that if only we could avoid the losses, we would all be winners. The first rule of making it is not losing it. So here are my ten top tips on not losing money. Inside information. I have a colleague who has professionally traded all his life. It’s…
In December last year, I wrote an article entitled “Nothing Terribly Wrong” talking about the market fears being overdone. At the time the ASX 200 was down 12% from the top. In hindsight, a marvellous thing, I wrote it ten days before the market bottomed. The markets have bounced. Let us revisit last year’s fears…
The obvious post-Hayne Royal Commission comment is that Bank executives with the wrong culture will be trying not to laugh at the recommendations. The AFR cartoon on the announcement of the recommendations: Some are calling it a waste of time. I think not. In hindsight the Hayne Royal commission was never going to have the…
I don’t need to rewrite all the Royal Commission recommendations for you, so I’ll take those as understood. That said there are a few interesting observations this morning: Bank executives with the wrong culture will be trying not to laugh at the recommendations. Some are calling it a waste of time. I think not (see…
Holiday over. This year Emma and I hosted my brother’s family over from the UK, for a month. They say your relations are like fish. Fantastic when they are fresh but give it a week and they stink. Not so this time, we had a ball. But it was a lot of hard work. Sorting…
I manage a $40 million Australian equity fund. It was great in the financial year ended June 30, 2018. The market was up 12 per cent and the fund was up 23 per cent. In the funds management game, that would have put us in the top 25 long-only funds in Australia. We began to…
I have rung a few of my UK contacts overnight and here are some British views on what is going in the UK: Theresa May won out over Jeremy Corben’s no-confidence vote in the UK – it was wholly expected. Brexit is not about politics, it is about the UK extracting themselves from the clutches…
