October was a bad month for shares with global shares losing 6.8% in local currency…

Introduction Some commentators claim shares are way overvalued and so a crash is inevitable. As…

Australian capital city home prices have fallen for 12 months in a row and are…

Introduction Every so often shares go through rough patches. We saw this most recently around…

“Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom – Frank Zappa (and maybe some others)”…

The period August to October is a time for anniversaries of financial market crises –…

For years now, many have told us that Australia is heading for an imminent recession.…

For the last two calendar years the Australian dollar has defied our expectations for weakness.…

Earlier this year the big fear was that inflation was going to surge led by…

In the rough and tumble of investment markets its very easy to get distracted: by…