Among the benefits of using an SMSF as a retirement savings vehicle is the direct ownership of the fund's assets.
This is...
Daryl Dixon, 23 November 2013, The Australian (subscription required)
The global economy is facing the risk of being locked into 'secular stagnation' with recovery remaining constrained.
Larry Summers and Paul Krugman are two of the most...
Max Walsh, 21 November 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
During the week the International Monetary Fund joined the ranks of commentators concerned about housing property price booms resulting from easy credit and low...
Daryl Dixon, 22 September 2013, The Canberra Times
Employment prospects, damaged by the GFC, will remain patchy at best, while economies lack the innovation and impetus for sustained growth.
Jobs, not debt, are positioned to...
Max Walsh, 13 June 2013, Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
Financial markets got it right during the week by predicting that there was a better than even chance of a reduction in the official cash interest rate. The Reserve Bank obliged with a 0...
Daryl Dixon, 13 May 2013, The Canberra Times
Excessive credit proved to be a hyper-destructive explosive that threatened those treading the easy credit path.
Bill Gross paid his way through college playing blackjack. He...
Max Walsh, 18 April 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription only)
Shortly before the US markets closed for Easter, the most closely watched US equity index, the S&P 500, hit an all-time high. The previous record high was recorded in 2007.
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Max Walsh, 4 April 2013, Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
How would our political landscape look if Kevin Rudd had survived the prime ministerial coup in 2010? Like John Howard, I believe Rudd would have won the election that year and would now...
Max Walsh, 21 March 2013, Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
After the United States left the gold standard in 1933, president Roosevelt would hold a conference from his bed with his advisers. There, he personally set a daily target for bumping up...
Max Walsh, 14 March 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
Charles Gave, of GaveKel Research in Hong Kong, wrote in a note last week that roughly a quarter of the world's financial assets are in equities and three-quarters are in debt....
Max Walsh, 28 February 2013, The Australian Financial Review
