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- Opinion
- Bonds
Bonds blow up equity market – again
The assumed defensive hedge of fixed-rate bonds against equities has broken down, forcing investors to consider other options.
- Christopher Joye
Buy, hold, sell: Three outstanding results and two shockers
Simon Shields from Monash Investors and Michelle Lopez from Aberdeen Standard on Pinnacle. It’s a new Magellan. It can’t do anything wrong. Buy, hold, or sell?
BHS: Three oustanding results and two shockers
Reporting season is done. There are winners, there are losers, we own a bit of both of them. And to talk about how it all went and a few stocks, we've got Simon Shields from Monash Investors and Michelle Lopez from Aberdeen Standard.
- Opinion
- How to invest
Why your smartphone is probably your enemy when it comes to investing
Research on the trading activity of tens of thousands of brokerage app users finds a pattern of higher risk-taking and ‘herding’ that leads to big losses.
- Carla Fried
Subreddits r/ASX_Bets and r/AusFinance have very different outcomes
A doctor is investigating which Australian approach on the Reddit platform would make you the most money – and it seems one is a clear winner in the short term.
- Can Wilson
- Opinion
- Strata
Apartment builds are crumbling while townhouses are on the rise
Problems with high-rise buildings and the need for space because of COVID-19 are drawing dwellers to bigger strata spaces.
- Jimmy Thomson
Wealthiest Australians
Rich Lister family sells Byron pub to focus on resort
The time is right – the Rich List Flannery family is selling its Byron Bay pub, The Sun Hotel, to focus on running the booming Elements of Byron resort.
- Martin Kelly
Gupta’s Whyalla steelworks reverses losses
Unions are worried about the potential fallout of the strife at Greensill Capital on the Australian operations of GFG.
- Updated
- Simon Evans
Forrest cashes in on the ‘corona-crash’
One year on from financial markets’ pandemic meltdown, a counter-cyclical buying spree by rich-lister Andrew Forrest is in good shape.
- Peter Ker
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
Carbon capture technology for a clearer future
There is big potential in delivering a CCS system that works, is reliable and helps bring net emissions to zero. This is how some ASX-listed companies are progressing.
- Elio D'Amato
This Month
This 20-year-old investor is planning 10 years ahead
Gen Zer Christopher Moeller’s investing strategy involves finding companies whilst they’re micro and small caps and holding onto them.
- Aleks Vickovich
Three reasons it’s worth recontributing a super pension
They include topping up super when the income is not needed, tax savings if you’re still working and less of a tax imposte when adult kids inherit.
- John Wasiliev
How to make the most of higher super contribution caps
Depending on your age and how much you’ve already got in retirement savings, after July 1 the new pre-tax cap will be $27,500 and the after-tax cap $110,000.
- Colin Lewis
Bitcoin ETFs could happen in Australia
Canadian regulators have approved the first bitcoin ETF and the Chicago Board Options Exchange has applied to launch a VanEck product in the US.
- Tom Richardson
- Explainer
- Wealth Generation
How ‘free’ trading platforms like Robinhood make money
Millennial and Gen Z investors should remember that, much like Facebook, if you’re not paying for it, you are probably the product.
- Aleks Vickovich
Rich Asian families are pouring millions into impact investing
A company set up by Warren Buffett’s grandson is among those helping wealthy investors to back sustainable businesses and climate change technology.
- K Oanh Ha
Woolworths, Afterpay and Stockland are still key picks
Analysts like the outlook for the grocer, point out rising competition for the buy now, pay later leader and say residential settlements will buoy the property developer.
- Sue Mitchell
- Opinion
- SMSFs
Do the maths before SMSF rejig
Tempted to change plans thanks to the new $1.7 million transfer balance cap? Be sure this suits your financial circumstances.
- Ben Smythe
- Analysis
- Bitcoin
Crypto exchange risks laid bare by Coinbase float
Crypto’s price may be rising as fast as the positive publicity, but this combination may elevate spectacular risks building in the system.
- Tom Richardson
- Opinion
- Inflation
The great reflation trade in global bond markets
How should central banks respond to the surge in rates and are there any circuit-breakers that could stall – or reverse – the recent rate rise?
- Nathan Sheets
- Opinion
- Commodities
Resources stocks much further to run in commodities supercycle
In the last two commodities bull markets, major global resources companies rose four- to five-fold, far outstripping the broader share markets.
- James Weir
- Opinion
- Cryptocurrencies
Why I stopped worrying and learnt to love crypto
What can you do to protect against the real risk to savings when every country is printing currency as fast as the presses will go?
- Mark Carnegie
- Opinion
- Family finance
Bank of Mum and Dad – beware the risks
Be sensible about what you promise, especially if there are other children who will expect the same support.
- Michael Hutton
February
Warren Buffett warns of ‘bleak future’ for debt investors
The 90-year-old chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway told shareholders in his closely followed annual letter that it was best to eschew the fixed-income market, in which the company is itself a large player.
- Updated
- Eric Platt
The survival guide to income investing
In a world of near-zero cash rates, minuscule bond yields and government hyper-stimulus, we highlight yield opportunities you may not have thought of.
- Tony Featherstone
Buy, hold, sell: Tesla, Tencent, Microsoft, Estee Lauder, CME Group
Two fund managers discuss giant global names and whether they still have giant returns in their future.
- Opinion
- Bonds
Worst bond bloodbath since 1994
A critical question is why Australians are being battered by interest rate movements more than anyone else, writes Christopher Joye.
- Christopher Joye
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
Sony valuation ‘undemanding’ even after share gains
The multinational conglomerate is focusing on higher-margin and recurring sources of revenue, with content – music, movies and games – as the key driver.
- Greg Smith
