Money and Financial Lifestyle

For students in my Financial Management class (FINM2401) - Alan Kohler has written an editorial on the current short sale restrictions here in Australia ( The Blind Leading the Naked , on Business Spectator ). In a nutshell: Short selling is an important part of price discovery in markets, but the securities lending business in Australia should be more transparent

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More on Short Selling

One of the topics in my personal finance course (FINM1401) is Managing Credit. Yesterday I finally got around to listening to the recent EconTalk podcast about credit and bankruptcy

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Managing Credit

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Understanding the Financial Crisis

I had a very interesting question from a student today. We’re covering portfolio theory in Financial Management, and she was looking at some of her own personal investments from this “new” point of view

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Risk Disclosures

Alan Kohler is one of my favorite Aussie finance commentators. Unfortunately, Business Spectator, where he writes regular columns, is available only through an email list and not through an rss feed.

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Short Selling

Several interesting entries have flowed through my Google Reader account in the past few days. In no particular order: Is this a good time to invest? Should you be making extra year-end superannuation contributions given the current financial climate

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Link Fest

Robert Gottliebson has an interesting article over at Business Spectator about Centro. For those of you who haven’t been following it, Centro is a high profile Australian casualty of the US credit crisis. Centro Properties ( ASX:CNP ) manages retail properties in Australia and the US

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Debt and Corporate Control

I don’t know if you’ve been following the Opes Prime saga, but I think it points out some weaknesses in the current Australian financial system. Alan Kohler, over at Business Spectator has been following this closely, and I recommend his columns. In particular this one about ANZ and how it ended up with more than 20% of several small caps.

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Financial Mayhem

The Australian Stock Exchange provides a podcast for investors. The latest item to show up in the feed (though not listed on the ASX podcast page ) is a talk on Portfolio Construction by Dale Gillham, Chief Analyst at Wealth Within. I listened to the podcast the other day while commuting and found it quite interesting

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Portfolio Construction