Active vs Passive Investing Part 1: A role for both

Stock market investors have to decide whether they will be \’active\’ or \’passive\’ investors.  The fundamental ideas that frame this choice are poorly understood, even by many investment professionals.  So, when I heard (on 16 January) of the passing of the great Jack Bogle – the foremost exponent of passive stock market investing, and the […]

Strategy: Property cascades

Breaking ground for new apartment towers continues apace in Sydney, and has actually accelerated in Melbourne.  Does that tell us that the inner-city property development boom goes on unabated – no, definitely not.  Melbourne residential property prices fell over 10 percent in the last year and approvals for new apartments are predicted (by the Master […]