The good thing about investing is that you don’t have to be the smartest person in the room to succeed.…
Human beings’ natural instincts are not conducive to investing. Investing is about reason and logic. Yet too often emotion becomes…
The eponymous 1987 movie “Wall Street” is full of investing pearls of wisdom. These gems are doled out to the…
When you look at the markets each day it can be tempting to experiment with different strategies or make short…
With investing, as with many pursuits, some parts are productive and others less so. Finding and reading the reports of…
Your cash position is not the most exciting or intellectually stimulating asset in your portfolio, but it is still an…
For a DIY investor finding your own stocks can take a lot of time, so you will probably need to…
Trying to predict what the market is going to do in the next six months or year is near impossible.…
Investing in stocks is an exercise in time. Time compounds returns, lets small companies grow into larger ones, lets mistakes fall…
Placing too much importance on the price of a stock and the history of price movements is a common mistake.…
A big part of investing is actually having the money to invest in the first place. While you cannot control…
Ethical investing is very much in the eye of the investor and there is no right or wrong way to…
There have been some high profile class actions on behalf of shareholders against ASX companies recently including; Commonwealth Bank of…
Share returns are skewed to the right. This means that you can only lose 100% on your investment in a…
The problem is not where to get the information, but what to take notice of. There is too much easily…
Shares are just like any other purchase you make in that you would like to pay less, but usually have…
With all the focus on when and what to buy, the decision to sell can often be neglected, but it is…
‘You simply cannot buy something cheaply unless there is some bad news. If there’s no bad news, then it’s already…
Do you understand the company? This is true for any investment and with an IPO there is less information to…
Do you know of anyone that has been burned by the promise of quick money later in life? The lure…