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Your property investment in 2025

The experts tell us house prices should move higher by between one and four per cent in 2025. But that average forecast conceals a wide range of variables: Sydney and Melbourne may drop, Perth could …

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Your Shares in 2025 - Part 2 : Top Picks

If bank stocks ran too hot on the ASX in 2024, should investors chase them again in 2025? 
Perhaps there are better opportunities in the year ahead: We're talking miners, industrials and technology le…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Your shares in 2025- Part 1 : Sharemarket outlook

How could the sharemarkets possibly repeat the powerful performance of 2024 in the year ahead? It's time to take a look at what the experts are predicting for the leading share markets over the next …

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

FIRE - Financial Independence, Retire Early - Could you do it?

What is the FIRE movement and how did it get started? It's not a club or a cult: It doesn't have a headquarters, rather it's a set of investment principles: And it just might be a breakthrough for yo…

Published on 1 year ago

2024: Last-minute wobbles in a very good year

Never count your chickens...until the last day of the year: A sober call from US Federal Reserve chair, Jay Powell, has cooled US markets this week while on the ASX the biggest float of the year - Di…

Published on 1 year ago

What top stock CEOs are expecting in 2025

Call it key person risk - or perhaps ' key person opportunity': Either way, the personality of the CEO is crucial to the operation of most top stocks on the ASX.
The Australian has just released its a…

Published on 1 year ago

Too late to join Wall Street’s bull run?

Can the US possibly repeat its bumper returns again in 2025? 
Well, the pundits tell us that US markets will return at least twice the total return from the ASX next year…so, why not?

Tim Mackay of Qu…

Published on 1 year ago

Your property questions answered

The inbox at themoneypuzzle@theaustralian.com.au is not going to get cleared by Xmas if we don't do something soon!  Here's a collection of our recent correspondence. 

Stuart Wemyss of Prosolution Pr…

Published on 1 year ago

How to find a financial advisor

There were 30,000 advisers in Australia and there are 15,000 today. Worse still, there are only a teeny number of new recruits joining the sector each year. 
Big Super may provide a breakthrough with …

Published on 1 year ago

Distressed property sales rising - but are they bargains?

It does not take long for distressed sales to appear in a soft property market: In Sydney and Melbourne there is now clear weakness in inner-city apartment markets.
But can an investor make money here…

Published on 1 year ago