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100 Basis Point Interest Rate Cut - Hooray … Maybe »

Yes, I was right and maybe Glenn Stevens, the RBA Governor does read this blog. I stated at few days ago that the RBA needed a 50 basis point cut to the official cash interest rate “like yesterday” - and today the RBA have cut it by a full percentage point. The cut puts the [...]

A Quick Explanation of Market-to-Market »

I thought I would make a quick post just to explain the misconception of the term ‘market-to-market’ - which is really not a financial term - rather its ‘marked-to-market’. I have gotten a few emails of people asking me what exactly this means and whether I could provide a really simple explanation of this term.
Typically, [...]

The Time Wastage Conundrum and Investing »

If I got a dollar for every email I receive containing the line - “How do I start investing?” - I would make a lot more money each day than I am now. But seriously, this question is posed so often to me now that I have even drafted up a standard email template in [...]

Goldman Sachs raises $5 Billion from Warren Buffet »

What do you do when you are down in the dumps and no one will lend you capital? Well, you can either start selling your assets or you can lean on the shoulder of your richest friends who were sceptical of the entire mortgage market. That’s what Goldman Sachs has managed to do and thus [...]

Let us know what education you need… »

Hi Guys,
As part of the Small Stocks redesign - we want you to let us know what sort of education you want to read about. We have plenty of content that we can post about but we thought that it would be much easier to simply ask you, as the readers of Small Stocks what [...]