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Mining stocks have been hammered lately. Are they still good for your share portfolio or super fund?

Every great bubble story comes with its own disastrous crash landing. And when it’s the stock market, it’s so often carnage of the mid-air jumbo jet explosion variety. Debris and casualties strewn over thousands of hectares, tens of thousands of lives impacted, plans changed forever, general fear and panic. Don’t think Flying High. This is […]

Frazzled investors awaiting share “sign” get a big clue

Sometimes you just get “a sign”. And you just know IT is about to happen. There’s that vacant stare from a two-year-old that means: “I’m filling my nappy”. There’s that look from your wife that says: “Don’t say a word!” If you do, hell will visit your earth. The first-night waitress says: “Hmm, are you […]

Doomsayers are getting louder as global financial markets struggle. What are your predictions?

In the next 12 months, a Brazilian transexual will win Eurovision, Tanzania’s swim team will scoop the pool in London, I will make the next Who magazine’s “sexiest people” list … and the world’s financial markets will get a freakin’ grip on it and come to their senses. The first three have a chance of […]

Risk reduction takes hold

PORTFOLIO POINT: The primary investment driver of SMSF trustees has changed. Has it taken hold of you? Some shifts in direction are subtle, like a cruise liner slowly changing its course. Some are not. Like a politician back-pedalling on a broken election promise. There was something you, as SMSF trustees, underwent last year that would […]