Venture Capital
When many of the most well-regarded brands and businesses were coming through the ranks, they had to do it the ‘old fashioned way’, go to the banks – or the bank of mum and dad – take a loan, and grow ‘organically’. Take Phil Knight, for example, the CEO and Founder of a little-known brand […]
What are alternative investments?
According to Walter Davis of Invesco, alternative strategies are those investments in anything other than publicly traded, long-only equities & fixed income. These include: However, for the purpose of clear definition in the Australian market, we should include property investment in the pool of traditional investing, due to the high level of homeownership and investment in […]
Types of Investments
Tangible Investments Tangible investments or those that are physical in nature, different to that of shares, securities or currencies as the name suggests, due to the fact they are tangible. Tangible assets exist outside of an account balance, financial statement or exchange market. Put another way, tangible assets have a physical form and natural value. […]
What are the functions of the share market?
Share markets enable businesses, governments and organisations to raise capital, which can allow companies to expand their operations, invest in new infrastructure and ideally grow. In return for this capital, investors receive a ‘piece of the company’ by way of shares – which can be lucrative should the company be successful. In addition, if a […]
How to start out in the share market
Financial markets can be an extremely unforgiving place, you cannot ‘undo’ a buy or sell, likewise just because you don’t understand or know about something, doesn’t mean you don’t have to pay out your position – with this in mind, education & knowledge is vital. People may or may not understand all instruments at their […]
What factors can affect the share prices on the share market?
The prices of individual shares on the share market are subjected to a wide range of factors that can affect the prices. The market and its performance are tracked using a number of measures, known as indexes. These indexes such as the All Ordinaries – which tracks the top 500 companies listed on the ASX […]
How does the share market work?
Thanks to the introduction of technology, trading shares, which was once facilitated by brokers running all over the place at the ‘trading floor’ of the stock exchange, most transactions are facilitated electronically. Participants in the stock market range from individuals, known as retail investors, to big institutional investors, such as fund managers, insurance companies, banks […]
Why do people invest in the share market?
There are several reasons people invest in the share market, however, the primary reason is to generate wealth. This can be achieved in a number of ways on the share market, through either the potential capital growth of the share price purchased, through dividends paid by the company to each shareholder for each share held […]
Traditional Investments
Traditional investments are most certainly those which appeal to a more ‘traditional’, ‘risk adverse’ investor base. This is in large part due to their liquidity as previously mentioned. Should the asset class start moving in a way that is beyond the investor’s risk tolerance, or they quite simply need cash, the traditional investments are the […]
What is better, traditional investments or alternative investments?
How much you invest, what you invest in, for how long and at which risk level is all up to your personal & financial situation. You should never invest more than you can afford to part with, as you never know what is around the corner. This is not an effort to be a ‘doomsday […]