How To Make Over 8% On Your Portfolio This Year
There’s no such thing as a free lunch in investment, but with low interest rates prevailing across much of the stgeloped world, Australian income investors are at least sitting down to a lunch that is relatively well-stocked. Using the ASX-listed interest-bearing securities market, Australian retail investors can pick up double-digit portfolio yields without taking on…
Are You Investing Or Gambling?
Merriam-Webster dictionary defines gambling as: 1. a: to play a game for money or property b: to bet on an uncertain outcome 2. to stake something on a contingency : take a chance. When trading is looked at, gambling takes on a much more complex dynamic than what is presented in the definition. Many traders…
How to choose investment software
Using a software package to select, track, and manage your investments can be a great help to most investors but with so many software packages available and all sorts of confusing claims from producers, choosing the right investment software can be an extremely difficult decision. Below we outline what investment software can do for you,…
How negative gearing works
By Jimmy B Prince, author of Tax for Australians for Dummies There are two ways to build wealth and more particularly a share portfolio. You can either wait until you’re saved a sufficient amount or you can borrow. If you decide to adopt the save and wait option, there’s a risk you could miss the…
Important facts to get right when choosing a stock
A little logic goes a long way in successful stock picking. It’s easy to get caught up in indicators and share prices and to overlook the most important facts to get right when buying any company. Purchasing a share involves taking part-ownership in a business. Think of it like buying a stake in the local…
Strategies that can turn sharemarket losses into gains
Strategy, firm decision-making and flexibility can help investors reverse unrealised losses in their share portfolios, according to finance experts that TheBull spoke to. The first step is to examine your share portfolio and separate the gains from the losses. So if you are currently nursing losses on a stock that you believe has strong fundamentals…
PEG ratio gaining in popularity against the P/E, but beware of its flaws
A common method used to establish the best value for money when comparing shares in different companies is to look at their respective price earnings ratios. This ratio is defined as the current market value of a share in cents divided by its earnings per share for a year in cents. Other things being equal,…
Check out the investment portfolios of the nation’s heavyweight finance experts
Are stocks going cheap? And what about the property market – should we be selling out before it’s too late, or buying on the dip? Everyone has an opinion on current market conditions, making it difficult to discern what’s fact and what’s fiction. So let’s get to the heart of the matter: where are Australia’s…
Stockmarket courses can be pricey, but do they offer the secret to investing success?
How do you become a great trader or investor? Must you shell out thousands on a course, or can you learn the art by going it alone? Talk to anyone in the investing world, and they’ll surely give you a different answer. While some investors praise the merits of attending a structured course, others recommend…
How to insure your investment portfolio before it’s too late
There’s nothing like a 23 per cent fall in the sharemarket to focus investors’ minds on protecting their portfolio. Arguably, it’s a bit late to think about this now but for those who have used the slump to establish new shareholdings, the summer’s experience should have portfolio insurance high on the agenda. You can get…
