Although the Australian options market as we know it commenced operations in February 1976, options have been around for many hundreds of years. In...
The long term drivers of lithium look very promising with the inevitable increase of electric vehicles (EV) given government incentives/policies, the...
I have recently had a lot of people asking me if they should buy a Medical Marijuana company in their Super Fund so I thought we should initially...
We have fielded numerous questions about the impact of Amazon’s imminent entry into the Australian retail market. Given most Australian...
Just like you and I the Government has to work out how much income they are going to earn for the year (taxpayers money) and what they are going...
As part of attending the launch of Gker, a new fintech incubator in Shanghai last week, I was asked to give a presentation on the Australian fintech...
At the peak of the market pre-GFC, RBA data reveals Australian investors held over $40 billion in margin loans – at the end of 2016, despite several...
I must confess that I’m writing this blog from a position of ignorance. Contrary to the adage, it’s not bliss; it makes me uncomfortable to know...
I’ve written a couple of times about the emergence of the Exchange Traded Managed Funds – which to complicate things, have also been going by the...
My first brush with a lack of ethics in financial advice was some years ago, before I worked in the industry. I’d received an inheritance that was to...
Scrolling through LinkedIn last week, I was shocked by a headline – ‘Passive to overtake active in US by 2024, says Moody’s’. Wowza! A fair chunk of...
Anything with the word social in its name gets my immediate attention. Social investing conjures an image of a group of like-minded people sitting...