Prime Insights
Connecting The Dots In A Low-Yield World
When interest rates are low and meaningful returns are hard to find, speculators tend to grab the headlines, regulators try…
Households Are Shutting Down Their Spending
Investment bank Credit Suisse reckons Australians are cutting back their spending and increasing their savings, which is not good news…
Investment Insights from the Census
The data trickling out of the 2016 Census has given us some investment insights. Let’s start with the principle that…
House Prices Dominate Again
The cost of housing is again likely to dominate the domestic economy in 2018, but all the talk may be…
RBA Searches For The ‘New Normal’
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is casting around for clues on how to deal with the rapid changes the…
What’s The Deal With Bitcoin?
In 2010, one Bitcoin was worth less than one hundredth of an Australian cent. Each Bitcoin is now supposedly worth more than…
Victoria is Snapping at NSW’s Heels
State economies appear to be in good shape with all states recording above decade average levels of activity but with…
Business Confidence is Up, But Not Investment
Business conditions are generally pretty good in Australia at the moment and the number of failures remains low, so why…
RBA’s Rosy Outlook May Be Holding Us Back
The chief monetary guardian, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), is also the 800-pound gorilla of economic forecasting. It’s always…
Double The Danger In Housing Crunch
The investing mantra has always been diversify, diversify, diversify! In essence, it means that if one part of your portfolio…