Markets Today: Deal or no deal
The key event this week will come from Vienna where ministers from OPEC are scheduled to meet and hopefully finalise the first cut in oil production in eight years. Read more
China Economic Update: November 2016
Since the middle of 2015, the seven-day Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor) has been unusually stable – when compared with the extreme volatility in this market over the preceding five years. Read more
Markets Today: Blurred Lines
Oil remains a keen focus with prices back up around $1 a barrel. Read more
Australian Markets Weekly: 28 November 2016
Rising oil prices from early this year and again from the middle of the year have been associated with rising medium-to-longer term US inflationary expectations (and indeed expectations globally). Read more
Monthly Financial Markets Update: November 2016
The market has been largely focussed on the US Election over the past month – and is now dealing with a fundamental change with the election of Donald Trump as President. Read more
The ins and outs of annuities
Read more to learn how you could use annuities in your portfolio. Read more
Back to the future…with Forward Exchange Contracts
Forward exchange contracts (“FECs”), which are usually between a bank and a customer, enable the exchange of one currency into another at a future date and a pre-agreed exchange rate. Read more
NAB and The Smith Family – Empowering disadvantaged kids through education
NAB Private and The Smith Family are working together this Christmas to bring much-needed gifts to nearly 15,000 disadvantaged children across Australia through The Smith Family Toy and Book Appeal. Read more
Markets Today: Higher Ground
Oil prices, of course, have a massive bearing on the rate of inflation throughout the world. That's why the outcome of OPEC talks this week are crucial. Read more
Markets Today: The life of a Thanksgiving Turkey
In his 2007 best seller “The Black Swan” Nassim Taleb uses the life of a thanksgiving turkey as an analogy for explaining a black swan occurrence i.e. a tail event that is so remote that is completely unforeseen. Read more
Markets Today: Big Jet Plane
The song by Angus and Julia Stone (my absolute favourite Sydney band) made number 1 on Triple J’s Hottest 100 […] Read more
Making hay while the sun shines
In 2015, JT Johnson & Sons, a fourth generation family business selling ruminant animal pellet feed and hay, celebrated its 20th anniversary with Japanese joint venture partner Asahi. Read more
