Residential Property
QUIRKY INVESTMENTS
Buyers ready, willing for Abeles
James Cockington The contents of a 'Mad Men' mansion once home to Sir Peter Abeles are being sold. Ashtrays are everywhere, as is leopard skin.
INTELLIGENT INVESTOR
Be brave - dump the banks
Nathan Bell Forget the uniquely Australian notion that you need to own the banks. Banks aren't essential to a high-performing portfolio.
Real estate agents' tricks now open for inspection
Insider spills the beans on turns of phrase that are perhaps "in need of updating''.
Super
Asset allocation critical to SMSF performance
Richard Livingston Sick of lacklustre managed super fund performance, you've taken the plunge and set up a self-managed super fund (SMSF). What's next?
QUIRKY INVESTMENTS
Antiques with animal magnetism
James Cockington Last week, at an auction of the estate of a Sydney millionaire buyers snapped up animal skin rugs, a mounted zebra head and a stuffed crocodile. It's a boom times for animal artefacts.
INVESTING
Share ownership lowest since 2000
Gareth Hutchens The number of Australians directly owning shares fell to the lowest level in more than a decade as the global finance crisis has sapped investor confidence and crimped returns.
INTELLIGENT INVESTOR
Exposure appeals as recession looms
David Llewellyn-Smith With Australia possibly on the verge of a recession, what stocks are the ones to choose?
INSIGHT
Budget Special: Forecasts fall short
Clancy Yeates Making iron-clad promises about future events can be a dangerous thing - just ask Wayne Swan.
INSURANCE
Holiday disasters: sun, sex and pig heads
William Clarke If you're considering buying a beach shack and renting it out beware - your guests could be pigs.
QUIRKY INVESTMENTS
Market blossoms for original Apples
Steve Lohr An original Apple-1 computer sold for $640,000 last year. An auction tomorrow could see that record beaten.
PROPERTY
Expensive on a world scale
John Collett Australian house price rises have moderated, but are still up there.
INVESTING
Tuning in to tweets for trading success
Rosie Murray-West A variety of providers promise to harness the online chatter of friends and experts to aid profitable investing.
INVESTING
Tuning in to tweets for trading success
Rosie Murray-West A variety of providers promise to harness the online chatter of friends and experts to aid profitable investing.
A capital investment idea
David Potts Have the tenants pay off your mortgage and the capital gains will look after themselves.
No regrets
Larissa Ham Angie Deegan bought her first home eight years ago.
PROPERTY SPECIAL
Be smart before you buy
David Potts Property investors have rarely had it so good, even if it's at the expense of first home buyers.
Time to bale out of the banks
Nathan Bell In this environment, look for stocks that should provide satisfactory returns over the long-term.
QUIRKY INVESTMENTS
Tell 'em they're dreaming
James Cockington After a post-GFC slump, the market for Indigenous art is poised to rebound. But there are still bargains to be had.
John Collett
Popping claims of a banking bubble
John Collett The ''great bank bubble of 2013'' should be taken about as seriously as the great Australian house price bubble before it.
INTELLIGENT INVESTOR
Banish that monkey business
Nathan Bell Had your garden-variety primate randomly selected five stocks in March 2009, chances are it would now be sitting on huge capital gains, contemplating reinvesting them in bananas by the truckload.
