3 portfolio questions to keep you afloat
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Questioning the composition of your share portfolio? Professional investor Elio D'Amato outlines how to do it.
Questioning the composition of your share portfolio? Professional investor Elio D'Amato outlines how to do it.
A huge increase in hedging costs could lower US returns for Australian investors, writes Christopher Joye.
CBA's treasurer says criticism that hybrid securities are complex products sold to misinformed investors is "misplaced".
Retail investors who poured $1.45 billion into the latest Westpac hybrid may regret doing so after the mooted launch of a more generous CBA security next week.
Policymaking hubris sowed the seeds of the last financial crisis, and gives one pause when considering whether Australia is prepared to deal with the next one.
"Interest rates are the virus that affects all assets," says the head of research at Jamieson Coote Bonds, which warns the pain will be worse in equities.
Is the fixed-rate government bond market – to be distinguished from floating-rate securities – in the mother-of-all bubbles? Very likely.
The story of 2017 was how markets shrugged off everything geopolitics could throw at them. Can the synchronised growth across regions last?
It makes sense for retail investors have a larger allocation to other asset classes like corporate bonds. But it never happens.
The real unemployment rate is a critical variable for the Reserve Bank to get right - but it's not achieving this.
Charlie Jamieson is a contrarian who believes rates won't do very much for three to five years. If he's right, now could be a good time to b...
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