Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 30 April, 2018   Integrity. What does it mean to you? A large number of people in the financial industry don’t seem to know what integrity means. Or perhaps they do, but simply don’t possess any. Australians are understandably wondering how deep this rot runs. Is the Royal Commission just […]

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 26 March, 2018 Last week, my little DebtGirl’s head was spinning Exorcist-like at her daddy – full of vile and bile – for about half an hour. Moments of it might have been truly scary to an outsider. Neighbours might have been tempted to call the cops. I was, apparently, […]

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 12 March, 2018 Young people say some naïve, stupid stuff sometimes. They also do stupid stuff, think stupid stuff and stress about stupid stuff. Not all the time. (And we older types aren’t immune to acts of stupidity.) When we see or hear youngsters doing stupid stuff and call it […]

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 26 February, 2018   As far as investment yarns go, there are few that I love more than an old “reversion to mean” parable. Markets have run too hard, shot too high? Surely, they must settle back for a while. Asset prices have been in the doldrums for an aeon? […]

Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 29 January, 2018 I guess a retirement village could be fun. If Rodney Dangerfield, playing his gregarious Caddy Shack character, was my neighbour. But Dangerfield’s dead. And I doubt, by the time I’m old enough to meet entry requirements, my golf swing could sustain a game consistently under 100. Who am I […]

  Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 15 January, 2018 Put your beer down. It’s time for an argument. This is about taxing property investors. So it’s important. Actually, hold on. If we’re going to argue about something other than whether Steve Smith deserves to be compared to Sir Donald Bradman … well, maybe having a […]

  Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 11 December 2017 Hang in there, dudes and dudettes. You’re nearly done. There’s only a week or two to go until most of us get to clock off for the year. December is the most frantic month of the year. You’ve got to squeeze in 74 Christmas parties/catch-ups in […]

  Bruce Brammall, The West Australian, 4 December 2017 So, we now have a royal commission into the banking sector. A bloody big microscope is bound to find some really ugly stuff. Conflicts of interest, fee gouging, insurance scandals and rorts, conflicted remuneration. There’s plenty of rocks to peer under. The commissioner will no doubt […]