Archive for the 'Investing' Category

I’ve just finished the first version of my new website: Compare Funds - Managed Fund Comparison Charts and Statistics.
Sorry to everyone I’ve ignored over the last couple of weeks - it’s been pretty intense trying to get this ready by today - a LOT of late nights!
There is still a lot more work to do [...]

John Garnaut writes a great piece on redesigning the Australian tax system to be simpler, cheaper, and fairer.
Have a butchers at this: a new tax world
WHEN Peter Costello returned from holidays and resolved to earn the right to be prime minister, he stuck a great sheet of butcher’s paper on his office wall and called [...]

On the Somersoft forum, someone asked a question about how much Ferrari’s cost to maintain. A debate broke out about which cars were better and all the usual things that go on in these arguments.
Then famous Ferrari owner Peter Spann stepped in (famous because of the picture of him standing in front of his Ferrari [...]

Tim Oren writes a fascinating answer to the question:
What is the best reasoning behind why shareholders have limited liability for a corporation’s environmental and social costs? Not on a case by case basis, but why it is the blueprint for the most powerful pillar of society?
Check out Tim’s historical summary of Why Is Shareholder Liability [...]

As part of a general clean up of my website, I made some changes to the pages that hold my Adelaide Advertiser Real Estate section page count analysis.
I thought I would add updates to my blog rather than having them on a separate webpage.
Here is some background.
December 2nd, 2001
After some interesting comments from a friend [...]

I manage my investment finances with Quickbooks.
I also suffer from a compulsion to over-engineer any solution I implement.
So, once I had worked out how Quickbooks works, I set about constructing a complex (but very accurate) mechanism for tracking my finances. It was a work of art, something which would make any accountant for a large [...]

PaulZag writes about going into business in his blog. I too have thought seriously about this path. Once I started seriously thinking about business opportunities, I started seeing them everywhere. It almost seemed as though they were jumping out at me - like DVD hawkers on a busy Beijing street “hello hello, sir, you buy [...]

I posted a poll on the Somersoft forum asking about what rewards programs people prefer.
In the discussion that followed, someone wrote:
Sometimes we offer to pay cash for larger things, and get a discount rather than them taking the card
… to which I responded:
And that’s the key really - when you take into account the [...]

I’m in the market for a new credit card - although I am seriously considering moving to a charge card - now that ANZ have just butchered their Qantas VISA card to the point where it is no longer worth paying their exorbitant fees and charges.
I run almost all of our expenses through our credit [...]

Leanne and I went to the Steve Navra Optimising Investment Structures course on the weekend in Sydney (the same one that PaulZag went to in Melbourne a couple of weeks back.
Was a pretty eye opening weekend - Steve certainly makes you think differently about some of the more “traditional” approaches to investing and building wealth.
I [...]