3 elections & a melee (with apologies to Hugh Grant)
20th of September this year marks not only my birthday but also the end of a week that featured 3 referenda from various parts of the world and the th [...]
Extract from The Clearance Newsletter 11.9.14
THE MARKETS Those of a non NZ persuasion probably don’t care but milk is now worth less than not only gold (which is worth nothing) but also the grass [...]
Rafts, Risks, & Returns
One of the joys of Far North Queensland is the plethora of activities one can partake in and one that we return to when we can is rafting on the Tully [...]
Bubblemania?
On of the biggest threats to investors’ wealth is succumbing to our most ancient instincts when making investment decisions. We are seeing signs of th [...]
9.5.14 Edition of The Clearance
Cleft sticks and the great American novel Joseph Heller wrote Catch 22 in 1961 (under the working title Catch 18, a number already taken by Leon Uris [...]
Labour’s laboured leap left to save us all from financial armageddon
Labour’s finance spokesman/spokesperson/spokessexually&speciesagnosticlifeform (delete to taste) David Parker (surprisingly no relation to Peter P [...]
Who’d be a weatherman?
The life of a meteorologist cannot be a happy one. They are charged with predicting the virtually unpredictable using a combination of maths, historic [...]
What is the aspect of investing that has changed the most in the last decade?
How "cheap" can cost you... A short video on the rise & rise of "low cost" index funds and why this trend could cost you your wealth. [...]
Investment Risk – the single biggest risk in investment….
A short video outlining the problems of mixing emotion with intelligent analysis & Warren Buffet's solution to this problem. [...]