by Fleur | Jun 22, 2018 | Insights, Key Alert, Periodic Market & Investment Update, Uncategorized
From July next year, most tax payers will be getting a bonus of $530 a year, which should help many Australians with rising energy bills in an economy starved of wage growth. The benefits will initially be small – but proportionally higher for low income earners...
by Fleur | Nov 18, 2016 | Education Series, Insights, Periodic Market & Investment Update, Property, Shares, Superannuation, Uncategorized
So Britain thought they had the story of the decade with outcome of the Brexit vote. Now America, as always, comes in and does it bigger & better than all others. So what does a Donald J Trump presidency look like? We’ve already seen the share market fall, and...
by Fleur | Nov 4, 2016 | Education Series, Insights, Periodic Market & Investment Update, Uncategorized
Australian inflation is on the rise, with consumer prices rising 1.3 percent through the year to the third quarter of 2016 from 1.0 percent in the previous three month period and above market consensus of a 1.1 percent. The biggest upward pressure came from food and...
by Fleur | Oct 4, 2016 | Insights, Key Alert, Periodic Market & Investment Update
The Reserve Bank has decided to again leave official interest rates on hold over October at the record low 1.5%. The Bank will continue to take a wait and see approach and assess the impact on the economy of the recent interest rate cut to determine if further are...
by Mark | Aug 25, 2015 | Periodic Market & Investment Update
What is occurring and why? We are now currently seeing swings in the equity market better than the bowling of James Anderson in the recent Ashes cricket series. Like the Australian batsman, equity markets have been very volatile over the last couple of months. This is...
by Mark | Mar 26, 2014 | Insights, Periodic Market & Investment Update
The activity in the world markets does not stop, and processing the recent changes requires a very patient mind. At the present time this will be important for anyone with investment exposure particularly within their superannuation which is the most common. In this...