From the category archives:
Investing
The Definition of True Wealth
April 28, 2012 - 2 Comments
I’ve never thought about wealth as a specific number. After all, there’s no ‘who wants to be a millionaire’ celebration when your bank account reaches a million bucks in cash…
Read moreBarefooter Questions Answered
April 21, 2012 - No Comments
While the Easter bunny is dropping off chocolate eggs this weekend, I’m focusing on your nest eggs. Here are five fat-free questions that hit my inbox in the first quarter of this year – and my straight talking answers to them.
Read moreWhere You Should Invest Your Money
March 17, 2012 - 2 Comments
If you’re worried about where to invest your money, turn off your phone and spend the next six minutes with me. I’ll give you four or five investment ideas that could double your returns over the next 10 years.
Read moreShould You Buy Facebook?
February 11, 2012 - 2 Comments
As I said last week, Facebook’s only asset is the personal data they’ve collected on us. And to continue to grow, Mark will have to convince us to be more ‘open and connected’ so he can then sell our data at a higher price to advertisers.
Read moreMy Four Big Predictions
February 3, 2012 - 12 Comments
This week Facebook confirmed its plan to become a public company. It’ll get a lot of attention (and most of it about as useful as your uncle’s status updates) but here are a couple of things to consider.
Read moreThe End of America
November 25, 2011 - 11 Comments
Over the last couple of months I’ve met a lot of older Aussies who have similar feelings of stress – about their finances. The last financial crisis has left them gun-shy in the face of an impending market meltdown.
Read moreValue Investing
November 12, 2011 - 6 Comments
Value investing essentially involves being an investment tightwad – looking for good-quality, easy-to-understand businesses that for one reason or another have been beaten down by the share market.
Read morePredicting the Unpredicable
November 4, 2011 - 6 Comments
Conventional economic wisdom says that when interest rates are lowered people are encouraged to borrow and spend more. Then again, conventional economic wisdom hasn’t been working that well of late.
Read moreMy Share Market Shopping List
October 28, 2011 - 13 Comments
None of this doom and gloom has done anything to diminish my desire to be an investor – just the opposite…
Read moreProperty versus Shares
October 14, 2011 - 29 Comments
“I’m going to sell my apartment”, announced my girlfriend. She may as well have been asking me to pass the butter, she was so cool, calm and collected – like a female Donald Trump (but with much, much more hair).
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