7 Stocks with High Yield and High Growth
Aussie punters seeking a safe haven investment have enjoyed the advantage of stuffing their money into term deposits offering relatively high rates compared to elsewhere. However the problem with this strategy is that the RBA has slashed the cash rate by 1.2% over the past year and more cuts may be in the offing. While…
7 Stocks with High Yield and High Growth
Australian investors have enjoyed the advantage of relatively high term deposit rates compared to other countries as a safe haven. The RBA has cut the cash rate by 1.2% over the last year and more cuts may be in the offing. While still higher than rates in most of the industrialized world, the possibility of…
6 Rare Earth Stocks for the Future
What do LED televisions, hybrid cars, iPhones, aircraft engines, wind turbines, cubic zirconias, loudspeakers, commercial lasers, and cancer drugs have in common? All these products need rare earth element minerals in their manufacture. Rare Earth Elements (REEs) have unique properties that are ideally suited for high tech products in a wide variety of fields, with…
Can Self-Managed Super Funds trade shares? Are there any restrictions?
By Stephen Karpin, managing director of CommSec Question: Can Self-Managed Super Funds trade shares? Are there any restrictions? Response: Self-Managed Super Funds (SMSFs) are the fastest growing area of the superannuation industry in Australia. This is because they offer a range of possible advantages over other super funds, including greater control over how their assets…
Dividend imputation and super funds: debunking the myth
By Wealth Foundations Many investment advisers and accountants who provide advice to self managed super fund clients insist on investing in shares that pay fully franked dividends. We’re not sure why. Perhaps they believe in some magical additional benefit that dividend imputation credits offer super funds. It’s a pretty simplistic approach to investing which has…
Beware Of Mining Stocks With Too Much Debt
Many Aussie miners are sitting on scary levels of debt – so when Fortescue Metals went into a trading halt over its burgeoning debt less than two weeks ago, investors in mining-related stocks watched closely. The day before the trading halt, Fortescue’s share price fell considerably and the ASX queried the drop. Some speculated that…
Economics and the brain: how people really make decisions in turbulent times
By Paul Harrison, Deakin University In a 2008 paper on neuroeconomics, Carnegie Mellon University economist George Loewenstein said: “Whereas psychologists tend to view humans as fallible and sometime even self-destructive, economists tend to view people as efficient maximisers of self-interest who make mistakes only when imperfectly informed about the consequences of their actions.” This view…
Is it more risky to short a CFD than go long?
Question: Is it more risky to short a CFD than go long? And how do you trade a CFD short, for example, what happens to interest charges, dividends etc? Thomas Roberts, Financial Writer, IG Markets Answer: There are some traders who are bound to feel slightly insecure about going short on a financial asset…
Creating a trading plan
Bradley W. Gareiss, Technical Analyst, GFT A trading plan is a must. I would be will to bet that virtually all successful traders have one. However, most new traders have no plan. In fact, I bet most new traders barely even have actual reasons for entering a trade. Imagine that you are planning to loan…
Mining Boom To Bust – Why The Experts Disagree
The Canadian and Australian economies are the envy of the industrialised world. Both countries share the common feature of benefiting from booming demand for their resources driven by emerging market economies. In Australia we have an abundance of resources but it is iron ore bound for Asia that has driven our economy. It stands to…
