You may have heard of a company called Bellamy’s Organic. It was the darling of the ASX last year as the Chinese took a liking to its organic baby formula. Tins of the Tasmanian company’s formula were flying off the shelves in Australia as it was sold into China in what was termed a “white […]
Our files say they wandered into our offices looking for retirement guidance nearly 17 years ago. Records say their current portfolio began with a rollover in 2002. They’re now veterans of investing and an example of not listening to the weenies who tell you to time the market or pick stocks. That rollover in 2002 […]
November 4 2016, four days BD (Before Donald). The ASX had wormed its way down to 5263 and the Dow Jones was at 17,888. Market timers had driven both indices down, selling their own assets and their clients’, so they could sit in cash and safely ride out any uncertainty. A day earlier in the Australian […]
Well here we are again. After the Brexit vote earlier in the year we’ve again witnessed a public vote having a real-time impact on financial markets. The US voting to elect Donald Trump as President. Markets spent the last week before the election reacting to polling numbers. Firstly, there was a sell off when Trump […]
Part of being a financial advisory business involves jobs clients want to delegate or don’t want to do. Modelling financial outcomes, monitoring government legislation, compiling decades of data to formulate an investment philosophy – most recently it was reviewing ASIC’s 120-page report into Australia’s life insurance industry. It’ sounds a snooze, but it’s not when […]