How can you continue to generate enough income for your needs as your capital diminishes with increasing speed despite belt-tightening in retirement. Financial advice may no longer be affordable. Capital is critical to wealth-building and saving enough for retirement. It… Read More ›
Investment
Rural Funds Management – the 1st Australian Fund for Australian Farms
This post takes another look at the progress of one of this years IPOs. It seeks to inform readers of relevant information, and is not professional investment afvice. The writer has a small share-holding in his retirement fund portfolio. Market appraisal … Read More ›
Australia’s Bull Run Continues
The quote below from Credit Suisse analysts Hasan Tevfik, and Damien Boey was featured in a news item on the Home page of the “nab-trade” website today. It arrested my attention because it suggested a target for the XJO of 6000 by… Read More ›
Melbourne IT. A chart review
Five weeks ago Melbourne IT was identified in a post written up in the Traders’ Community Website “Ten Bags Full” as being on an upward recovery trajectory, and about to test long-standing resistance at $1.50. http://tenbagsfull.com.au/mlb/prediction/2014/5/10/on-a-recovery-trail/518 This… Read More ›
Market Outlook for 2H 2014
https://technicality.me/2014/01/01/charting-an-investment-strategy-for-2014/ It is now six and a half years since the global financial crisis bombshell exploded on the unprepared stock-markets of the world, sending asset values into free-fall. Retirees exposed directly or indirectly to equity markets were severely affected, having to sell oversold shares… Read More ›
Deep-Value v Technical Analysis Investment
Deep value investing A year or two ago one of Australia’s most highly respected “deep value” analysts and investors stated on the Sky Business channel that he had at that time been only able to find a half-dozen or… Read More ›
The Stanley Kaplan Legacy
Stanley Kaplan was born at the end of the first World War (in 1919) of migrant parents from Latvia and Belarus and grew up in Brooklyn, New York. He wished to study Medicine but was denied entry to all five… Read More ›
How much will you need to save for your retirement?
A reader from “Ten Bags Full” of “C’mon you old codgers! Its time to get back to work!” http://tenbagsfull.com.au/tweet/show/11088 suggested the Rule of Twenty” as a guide to how much a retiree might need in super savings for retirement. This rule deserves… Read More ›
Why Buy International Securities?
Disclaimer At the beginning of 2014 I decided to open an account with the international desk of Commonwealth securities. I did so in order to retain ownership of ten thousand shares in Linc Energy after it shifted its listing from the… Read More ›
Healthscope under the microscope
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/healthscope-show-on-the-road/story-e6frg8zx-1226843074865 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/malaysias-ihh-mulls-5bn-bid-for-healthscope/story-fnay3ubk-1226851437974 http://www.bmartin.cc/dissent/documents/health/healthscope_story.html Healthscope Healthcare operations were purchased by private equity firms TPG and Carlyle in 2010. (? about $1.7 billion) Under their administration operations have continued to grow and operating profit was reported this month as having risen 14%… Read More ›