In the last year, there has been strong demand from China for Australian iron ore, resulting in iron ore prices surging from around $90 to a high of $218, which has also translated into strong rises for our Australian miners. The biggest gain this calendar year is Grange Resources, which is up 75.58 per cent followed by Champion Resources up 45 per cent, while BHP, which is our largest ...

Oil prices have risen strongly since the beginning of this year, as both brent and light sweet crude oil futures are up well over 30 per cent while heating oil futures is up over 40 per cent. However, this has not translated into a rise on energy stocks in the Australian stock market.

Looking at our oil and gas producers, Santos is the standout performer having risen over 11 ...

As the world becomes more familiar with blockchain and cryptocurrencies, the opportunities that this new age technology presents keeps expanding at a rapid pace. In March, Twitter founder Jack Dorsey sold his first tweet as a non-fungible token (NFT) for $2.9 million. To put it in simple terms, an NFT is a unit of data stored on a digital ledger (known as blockchain), which certifies that ...

Over the past 12 months, there has been an influx of investors gaining exposure to the Australian stock market by investing in Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs), as these investments are heavily promoted as a low-cost way of achieving similar returns to an index, such as the S&P/ASX 200. 

But when I ask investors if they want to outperform the stock market rather than achieve ...

Let’s face it, we will all retire some day and like death and taxes it is something you really can’t ignore. That said, if you prepare for retirement, you can control when you retire and how much you retire with. What is concerning is that according to the Association of Superannuation Funds Australia (ASFA), women retire on average with a balance of $122,848 in super, while ...