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Volatility is the only thing we can be certain of today. The crazy price action in the past 3 months is enough to make any prudent investor want to stay away from the stock market. However, if we take a closer look at the market action, we can still find some safe investment strategies using [...]
Australian investors are a lucky lot when it comes to getting big dividends from our stocks. Dividend yield of more than 6 per cent is not uncommon especially when you include franking credits which can add another 43 per cent to fully franked dividends if you have an SMSF in pension phase. I remember how [...]
Everyday we read about how well the Australian economy is doing and how inevitable it will be for the RBA to raise interest rates. Like most other people, I was expecting interest rates to go up so I was very surprised to read this article Woe for savers as banks slash rates which stated that [...]
Looking at the chart above, it quite obvious that bonds have outperformed stocks in 2010. The S&P 500 (red line) is down 2 percent while TLT, the ETF for long-term bonds (blue line) has rallied 17 percent since the start of this year. The spectacular bond rally in recent weeks has become the hottest topic [...]
I would like to apologize for the lack of new posts in the past few weeks as we were away for two weeks and last week I have been busy with getting the household back in order and helping the newest member of our family (a homestay student from China) settle in. I have also [...]
Many thanks to Dean Greacen from SMSF Investor for today’s post. Dean will be sharing with us a series of posts on Hybrid Securities, which could be a great investment for SMSFs seeking high yield with capital growth. A preference share is a type of equity interest which has preferential rights over ordinary shares. The company’s [...]
Many thanks to Dean Greacen from SMSF Investor for today’s post. Dean will be sharing with us a series of posts on Hybrid Securities, which could be a great investment for SMSFs seeking high yield with capital growth. Convertible Notes are debt instruments that may be converted to an equity holding at a future date. [...]
Many thanks to Dean Greacen from SMSF Investor for today’s post. Dean will be sharing with us a series of posts on Hybrid Securities, which could be a great investment for SMSFs seeking high yield with capital growth. Hybrid securities have the characteristics of both debt and equity and the enormous growth of hybrid securities [...]
In my last blog post, I mentioned that with the rising interest rates and low inflation, cash is becoming an attractive investment option especially when compared to the increasingly volatile stock market. I started my search for good high interest savings accounts and term deposits and noticed that some of the highest yielding accounts were [...]
Today is expiration day for August 09 ASX Exchange Traded Options. By end of today, I will know if SLI Super would have become the owner of another 9360 Telstra shares. On 20 July 2009, I sold 9 contracts of Telstra 3.36 Aug09 put option for 0.15 per share. At the time of writing this [...]