Added on: Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 15:45 pm
Keywords: Diversification, dollar cost averaging, Fees, investment portfolio, risk profile, Volatility, wholesale managed funds
In recent blogs I have touched on the impact and upside of volatility and whether or not now is the right time to invest in managed funds. The focus of these blogs was typically providing traditional defensive techniques to be used when investing during volatile markets cycles and when constructing diversified portfolios. … more
Added on: Wednesday, June 11th, 2008 15:24 pm
Keywords: Consumer Sentiment, Credit Crisis, Food Shortages, Household Debt, Interest rates, Monetary Policy, Official Cash Rate, RBA, Recession
Despite the recent and sporadic optimism of the Australian Sharemarket, the bad news is far from over.
You only have to pick up the weekend newspapers to realise that things are getting worse, not better! … more
Added on: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008 16:13 pm
Keywords: Budget, Economy, Fiscal policy, Superannuation
Whilst recent blogs have canvassed the issues of the K.Rudd Government Budget not delivering sufficient fiscal reform to propagate a soft landing or the required substance to deliver the level of support required to alleviate the here-and-now issues faced by ‘working Australians’, I will admit that the Budget does deliver (at least in principle) on much need infrastructure development funding. … more
Added on: Friday, May 30th, 2008 16:29 pm
Keywords: Budget, Economy, Fiscal policy, inflation, Interest rates, RBA
In what Treasurer Swan described as a ‘tough but fair Budget’, at first glance it appears as though it will be the ‘working Australians’ who will receive the most benefit.
Designed as a Budget to “tip the scales in favour of working families”, a $55 billion tax package (including $46.7 in tax cuts over the next 4 years) certainly appears to best serve the “backbone of the economy”. … more
Added on: Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 17:41 pm
Keywords: Bankruptcy, Budget, Economy, Fiscal policy, Government, inflation, Interest rates, RBA
No it’s not a typo, just a play on words. And I mean feral it in the full sense of the word’s Latin origins meaning ‘a wild beast’!
It is possible to draw some clear parallels between the Budget and an undomesticated (wild) animal that typically causes disruption to its fragile surroundings. … more