Do Australians spend too much on housing?
By Wealth Foundations For those who own their own home and don’t have a mortgage their sense is often that other than for costs like council rates, utilities, building insurance and maintenance they don’t spend anything on housing. For those with a mortgage, they may add in the cost of their loan repayments. But this…
Using Divergence To Detect Bottoms and Tops
By Vito Henjoto, Technical Analyst, GFT Divergence is a fantastic tool to use if you can spot it – but for some people, they miss out and just can’t see the wood for the trees. Considering that the trading world is mostly sentiment driven, price itself does not filter out emotions, sentiments and bias of…
18 Share Tips – 18 February 2013
James Samson, Lincoln Indicators BUY RECOMMENDATIONS RCG Corporation (RCG) Chart: Share price over the year to versus ASX200 (XJO) Despite a lull in the Australian retail market following a surprisingly weak December retail sales figure, footwear company RCG has continued to report strong company fundamentals and, more importantly, consistent growth throughout the cycle. We believe…
Dividend Stability in 5 Top Performing Income Stocks
Income investors brave enough to return to the sharemarket in 2012 were well rewarded by increased total returns through dividend payments – and the trend towards higher yields should continue into 2013. A search strategy favoured by some income investors is to look for stocks with the highest yields. More experienced investors know dividend stability…
Dividend Stability in 5 Top Performing Income Stocks – page 2
JB HiFi (JBH) is a favorite stock for short sellers. The stock has 19.16% short interest and appears to permanently sit at the top of the list of the most shorted stocks on the ASX. Its share price is down 20% year over year but a ten year time horizon looks much better. Here…
Fear the no-grow zone: has technological innovation reached its final frontier?
By Fabrizio Carmignani, Griffith University The economic profession lacks a unified theory of economic growth. Textbooks and academic journals contain a plethora of models and paradigms which generate different (and sometimes contradictory) predictions about the mechanics of the growth process. Amid this intellectual confusion, an element in common to the bulk of modern growth models…
Retirement planning: more than a financial exercise
By Wealth Foundations The non-financial aspects of retirement planning may be critical In our work with clients, our primary focus is the effective accumulation of wealth over the period to a nominated retirement date (or desired date for financial independence) and then the drawdown of that wealth to meet a desired retirement lifestyle. It is…
How To Build A Trading Plan From Scratch
How do you go about building a trading plan? What do you need to consider, and what type of trader should you be? The last question is a logical place to start – deciding the type of trader you want to be, and understanding why. Type of Trader When creating a trading plan, a trader…
A rebound in iron ore prices? Who knows?
By Jason West, Griffith University Forecasting commodity prices is like buying a second hand car. Only the car’s previous owner and perhaps the dealer really know what the car is actually like. In contrast you, the buyer, are an outsider with very limited insight and can only judge the car’s true value by what you…
How To Calculate Your Net Wealth
“Living for today” has future consequences We often hear people say that they don’t plan too much for the future. They’d rather live for today, as they argue you don’t know what’s going to happen tomorrow. And many of these people spend today as if there isn’t going to be a tomorrow. Also, it’s not…
