Adviser news & insights
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Bell Direct CEO keen on technological innovation
When it comes to innovation in stockbroking, Arnie Selvarajah is a big believer in client feedback and technology.
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New Year’s Resolutions for 2016
Buy and hold is a great strategy in a bull market, but it does mean you lose money in a bear market or find it hard in a sideways one. Julia Lee proposes new goals for investors in 2016.
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Why you need to build a small cap share portfolio today
The ASX All Ordinaries has rebounded close to 9 per cent in the past few weeks, and is down almost 10 per cent from its multi year high six months ago, but really, it doesn’t matter when you start your share portfolio, as long as you start it.
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Investment newsletters: making sense of stock recommendations
Investment newsletters remain a popular way for SMSFs and retail investors to trade. But do they deliver results? Bell Direct chief executive Arnie Selvarajah weighs the field.
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Fintechs shake up banking, providing investment opportunities
Fintech — financial services underpinned by technology — may not be new but the pace of change has never been faster. It is a crucial trend that Australian investors need to be aware of, given financial stocks make up almost half of the S&P/ASX200.
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Declining market breadth in US stocks and impact on the Australian market
With lots of talk about the rise in the US stockmarket to new highs being driven by a handful of stocks, how important is breadth and how does the Australian sharemarket stack up?
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How to build a small cap portfolio
Your step-by-step guide to building your own small cap portfolio, whether nor not it is part of a bigger equities portfolio.
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Access all asset classes: moving beyond direct shares
Welcome to a new world of access beyond direct shares. It is a trend being driven by Australian share investors who want the benefits of holding a range of different asset classes – global equities, as well as property and bonds – because they rise and fall at different times.
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Betting on yield
Investment performance in the last few years has been more about interest rate expectations than anything else. As bond yields have moved lower, high yielding stocks have moved higher.