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How close were we to a credit disaster last week?
I was surprised by last week’s announcement by the major central banks to pump liquidity into the global financial system so I spent a fair bit of time on the weekend researching to find out the reason behind this unexpected move. While it is common knowledge that European banks were experiencing an onset of a [...]
How to have a worry free retirement – Part 3
Thursday the 24th of November was Thanksgiving Day and this year we had something very special to be thankful for, as it was also settlement day for the last of our investment properties and the proceeds from the sale was enough to pay off our home mortgage. When we prepared our 10 year goals in [...]
End of Bull Market – Will the Bears finally get it right this time?
Short-term traders have been watching the triangle pattern on the daily chart of the SPX (see chart below) for the last few weeks and this has clearly been resolved to the downside, with prices not only breaking below the triangle but even breaching the 50 day moving average. This quite clearly signals the end to [...]
How to have a worry free retirement – Part 2
Kingsley and I started doing our 10 year goals in 2005. We had very ambitious financial goals which included having a stock portfolio worth $1.5 million and a property portfolio worth $2.5 million because we thought this was what we would need to be financially secure. We saved aggressively by putting $50,000 into super every [...]
How to have a worry free retirement – Part 1
I am tired of the fear mongering about not having enough super to retire on. When I was working at the bank I would cringe every time I heard my colleagues echo what they had been told by the financial planners which was “if you don’t have at least $2 million dollars, you will be [...]
Greek Endgame Drags On
I started writing this post from the Kuching airport, after a ten day visit to my parent’s house. This visit is vastly different from my last one in March this year when I first discovered the full extent of my parents’ dementia. After the initial shock, all the siblings have put our heads together to [...]
Growth vs Income Investments
A number of events in recent days have made me reflect on our conventional thinking of growth vs income assets. Growth assets such as stocks and properties have always been associated with savvy investors who dare to take risks and are usually rewarded with bigger returns. Income assets are usually associated with risk averse investors [...]
Why Australians should care about Dexia
You are not alone if you are asking who the heck is Dexia, let alone why should anyone care about this European bank that nobody has heard about? Well, Dexia was the reason behind the latest round of share market panic. It is a major player in the $2.9 trillion global municipal debt market. To [...]
Endgame
I believe 21 September 2011 is a watershed day which we will all remember in days to come. Yesterday, the US Federal Reserve announced Operation Twist which is the equivalent of a QE3 and the US stock market tanked instead of rallying hard like it did when QE1 and QE2 was announced. All the major [...]
Should we worry more about the US or Europe debt crisis?
The stock market volatility in the last two weeks has been mainly due to worries over debt defaults in the US and Europe. Last week our stock market followed the US market in falling over 10 percent in one week over worries about the US debt ceiling and the downgrade of their AAA rating by [...]
