Money and Financial Lifestyle

Next week marks the beginning of a new academic year here at UQ . I’m teaching two courses this semester — an introductory finance course for business majors (over 850 students), and a personal finance course with no pre-requisites (over 100 students). If any of my students find their way here, do say hello in the comments

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Getting Ready

Haven’t posted lately.

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Understanding the Financial Crisis

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

Don’t know if anyone is still checking this feed — it’s been months since I last posted. Down here, January means school holidays and summer vacation. Most of my non-academic friends assume that means I’m on holidays too, but this is not the case

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Welcome to a new academic year

Last week I showed a video from the ABC show Inside Business. Alan Kohler interviewed Chip Goodyear and Marius Kloppers from BHP Billiton

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Inside Business