Its a new year and it's welcome, but investors can't look forward to much of a change. Uncertainty about the progress of both the Australian and world economies will continue and...
Daryl Dixon, 12 January 2014, The Canberra Times
The costs of the Coalition scheme will probably not be significant.
Widespread concern about major costs for share investors if the Coalition wins the election and implements its...
Daryl Dixon, 31 August 2013, The Australian (subscription required)
Continuing high rates of clearance at recent auctions and many sales at prices considerably above vendors' reserves indicate lower interest rates are contributing to a boom in...
Daryl Dixon, 18 August 2013, The Canberra Times
Japan is ageing faster than any other developed economy. It is also shrinking. Abenomics may turn out to be a trick without a treat.
Japan has posted its highest level of...
Max Walsh, 1 August 2013, The Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
Tuesday's budget, as would only be expected in an election year, contained no nasty surprises to upset ordinary taxpayers.
Thanks to the...
Daryl Dixon, 15 May 2013, The Canberra Times
World sharemarkets were upset this week by the terms of the long-awaited bailout of the Cypriot banking system. The major concern of investors was not with the bailout, which was widely...
Daryl Dixon, 24 March 2013, The Canberra Times
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
Share prices and investor confidence, interest rates, the effect of the Italian election on stock markets and possible returns for super funds this year were among the wide range of...
Daryl Dixon, 26 February 2013, ABC Nightlife
Since 1900 Australian equities have arguably been the best performing of all the stock markets around the world.
The risk premium, the return in excess of the real bill rate, has...
Max Walsh, 14 February 2013, Australian Financial Review (subscription required)
Data released this week provides welcome news for super fund members. After five long and worrying years, balanced and growth super funds have recovered all the losses suffered during...
Daryl Dixon, 27 January 2013, The Canberra Times