Property
Murky dangers in dark pools
Richard Livingston Imagine you're doing the grocery shopping. A glance at your Woolies iPhone app suggests you're out of Weet-Bix, priced at $5.49 a box. So you wander over to the cereal aisle to grab one.
Share wars: how the robots are robbing you
David Potts The prevalence of computer-generated trading in the modern sharemarket has created an unpredictable, and sometimes dangerous, environment for investors.
Insight: housing shortage
Clancy Yeates If you keep an eye on the property market, you've probably heard about Australia's housing shortage.
Turnaround rebuilds trust
John Kavanagh The listed property trust sector was a surprise standout performer during the 2011-12 financial year.
David Potts
Let them eat dividends: Reporting season 2012
David Potts Although a slew of companies have already downgraded their profit hopes, market experts are pointing out that returns are higher, even if the outlook remains uncertain.
Switch to safety worked
Annette Sampson Spare a thought for investors in pension products. While all super fund members copped a flogging during the global financial crisis, pension fund investors don't have the luxury of being able to...
Lower your expectations and get rich slowly
Marcus Padley It has been an incredible three decades of asset speculation and price appreciation - in both shares and property.
In the global interest
Barbara Drury PIMCO boss Bill Gross has cult status on global bond markets. So when he recently declared that ''the cult of equity may be dying, but the cult of inflation may only have just begun'', you could...
Home help has strings attached
Most young people struggle to buy their first home. It has never been easy but over the past decade, the big increase in property values has made it particularly hard.
Home owners dig in as prices slump
Chris Zappone The era of flipping houses in a rising market is over with the data showing homes are changing hands at the slowest pace since at least 2000.
Reaping the harvest
Food prices are about to take off again but you don't have to starve to get the better of them.
Proceed with caution
Investors are having one of their best years since the global financial crisis started.
Master stroke
Quirky Investments The Sotheby's Australia chairman, Geoffrey Smith, cautiously describes the results from the latest sale of Important Australian Art as ''solid'', adding that ''one successful sale does not make a...
Rare collection
Quirky Investments With doomsayers predicting the demise of the printed word, it's encouraging to see that books and related material still have some value. Great value, in some cases.
Couture bid up
Quirky Investments We first picked up on the boom in pre-loved designer fashion in April last year when Leonard Joel held its first specialised auction on this theme in Melbourne.
Insight: holiday homes
Clancy Yeates About this time of year, many people are tempted by the lure of a holiday home.
Matthew Kidman
Falling rates may drive rush to shares
Matthew Kidman There is a robust case to argue we could be heading towards cash rates of just 2 per cent.
Insight: investing
Insight Small investors have some clear favourites when it comes to playing the stockmarket.
Stamping out a world record
Quirky Investments Stamps are often nominated as the most expensive man-made objects on a value to weight ratio.
Strategies that bear results
Buy in gloom and sell in boom is sharemarket advice that has been proved right over and again. There is no doubt that investors are gloomy; the question is, are we gloomy enough yet?
