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Labour has proposed a number of changes to franking credits paid on dividends. The proposal absolutely has some merit behind it, as a system set up so that people weren't taxed twice has evolved into a system where some people get taxed zero times. But the current implementation has significant ...

The main concern that I have with profit growth driven by tax cuts is that it doesn't reflect true economic strength.

In amongst all the palava and typical political tomfoolery that has dominated the news recently, there has been some quiet angst building in the background centering on the fact that common household savings may now be put in jeopardy in the event of a bank collapsing.

There is a battle going on in the financial press for the hearts and wallets of retail investors.

Our own Chief Economist featured on the Bolt Report last night, to help clear up recent the recent politicing of Australia's high immigration policy with reasoned arguments and facts.

I had a few questions about how the numbers from Reneweconomy earlier this week showing that batteries+solar are at grid parity in Adelaide stack up against our analysis. The short answer is that salesmanship is all about framing. The numbers are similar, with high electricity prices, relatively ...

In June 2007, two relatively obscure Bear Stearns mortgage funds closed. With the benefit of hindsight, this was the start of a wave of mortgage defaults that heralded the start of the financial crisis. In October 1987, a stock market correction turned into a rout as a trading strategy called ...

With markets in free fall over the past two days, the question for investors is what to do? Here is a quick list of things that I go through in market downturns: 1. Don't panic - assess the situation rationally. Retail investors have a distinct tendency to buy when markets have risen and sell when ...

Some Coalition in-fighting on electric cars and a new electric "Black Cab" in London caught my eye overnight and given our investment interest in electric cars I thought it worth an update on the investment arithmetic. Electric Vehicle investment numbers Of more interest, given our view that ...

I wanted to follow up on Jeremy Grantham's comments from yesterday and run through some of GMO’s asset allocation views from the perspective of an Australian investor. Jeremy Grantham & Co. at GMO have put out two thoughtful (as always) pieces in the last 3 weeks. I rate the team there highly ...

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) put out a white paper Friday titled “Credit Booms—Is China Different?” The answer? Not in any meaningful way. Here are some selective quotes and charts (the yellow notes are my comments

Richard Bookstaber recently put out an interesting post on sectors that he thought had problems on a 30-40 year view. Richard is the author of a number of good finance books - I liked A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation and I have his new one The ...

A few companies have come out recently talking about the effect of Trump tax cuts and flagging large losses/write-downs. From the FT:

The Australian SMSF Landscape We recently ran a webinar entitled the SMSF Asset Allocation Master Class in which, as an introduction, I thought I might provide a snapshot of the Australian SMSF landscape. The following graphs have been be created from an ATO dataset who publish SMSF statistics ...