Owning a family company comes with significant responsibility regarding how payments from the company to you or your family member are handled. Most payments from a company are considered as dividends in the recipient's hands, except the return of original…
At times like these, it is tempting to seek a secure prediction of the future, after all, we have been living through uncertain times for most of the last year or so, from floods to fire, back to floods and…
In recent weeks we have had an increasing number of enquiries about how people can invest in gold. Traditionally, many investors would obtain exposure to gold assets by buying shares in gold producing companies. The shares in these companies fluctuate…
In the depths of the COVID-19 crisis many people are spending time with that horrible phrase “If Only”. Remember when you spent the last of your cash buffer on that 60 inch all singing all dancing television? You may have…
Since March 23 we have seen an increase in the value of the ASX 200 of around 25% and in a previous article, I explained how markets always look forward rather than backward (see here). It all seems so logical…
Are investment markets showing the first green shoots or could there still be a late frost? As I am writing this in my self-isolated home office on 1 st May 2020 it is currently 5 degrees outside with very strong…
Carol* was in a state. She had just spent 1 hour and 40 minutes on the phone with Centrelink trying to assure them of her entitlement to JobSeeker Payment and finally had convinced the agent that she had registered several…
When to Sell “The markets are falling, when should I sell and cut my losses?” is a very common question in times like these. In fact, selling is exactly the opposite of what you should be doing as an…
We have grown very used to investment markets continually rising. From the depths of the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) in March of 2009, we have seen a steady increase in asset values for a period of more than 10 years,…
Its been a tough couple of weeks on investment markets. Fears about the impact of CVID-19 (or the much better sounding Coronavirus) are weighing heavily on sentiment, and as we speak International and Australian Markets have declined in value by…