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Understanding and investing in cryptocurrency

In decentralised currency markets like Bitcoin and Ethereum, the market needs to ensure that everyone agrees on the order of transactions. Cryptocurrency miners help this process and are rewarded with digital coins.

Is FOMO overruling investment basics?

Four years ago, we introduced our 'bubbles' chart to show how the market had become concentrated in one type of stock and one view of the future. This looks at what, if anything, has changed, and what it means for investors.

Welcome to Firstlinks Edition 589 with weekend update

  • 5 December 2024
  • 2

The US market is heading for back-to-back years with returns of more than 20% and the last that happened was at the height of the dot-com bubble. Can American exceptionalism continue or is it time to look elsewhere for ideas?

Welcome to Firstlinks Edition 587 with weekend update

  • 21 November 2024
  • 3

As we collectively mourn the loss of Graham Hand, many of his friends, colleagues, and readers of Firstlinks have expressed a desire to make a donation in his honour. His family has established The Graham Hand Gift.

Welcome to Firstlinks Edition 573 with weekend update

  • 15 August 2024
  • 6

Steve Eisman, best known for his ‘Big Short’ bet against US subprime mortgages before the 2008 financial crisis, is now long and betting on what he thinks are the two biggest stories of our time: AI and infrastructure.

Welcome to Firstlinks Edition 570 with weekend update

  • 25 July 2024
  • 6

Technology makes our lives easier but our dependency on it makes us fragile. See why I might need to embrace cash again, and why I think investor preferences look set to become more polarised than ever before.

Trying to save money? Pay in cash

The cost of living crisis has made spending control front-of-mind for many people. New research shows that paying by cash rather than card, even if inconvenient, can be a valuable tool in controlling expenses.

Estate planning made simple, Part II

'Putting your affairs in order' is a term that is commonly used when people are approaching the end of their life. It is not as easy as it sounds, though it should not overwhelming, or consume all of your spare time.

The ultimate superannuation EOFY checklist 2024

We're nearing the end of the financial year and it's time for SMSFs and other super funds to make the most of the strategies available to them. Here's a 24-point checklist of the most important issues to address.

Welcome to Firstlinks Edition 557 with weekend update

  • 25 April 2024
  • 7

First Sentier’s decision to hand $14 billion back to investors is a further sign of fund managers grappling with the exponential rise of ETFs. Yet it comes as the ETF industry may be sowing the seeds for its own future downturn.

Will the Year of the Dragon be good for markets?

Will the Year of the Dragon prove a fruitful one for markets? Strong labor markets and a loosening in financial conditions should help in the first half of 2024, though things may get more rocky as the year progresses.

Welcome to Firstlinks Edition 544 with weekend update

  • 25 January 2024
  • 6

Institutional fund managers are often constrained in what stocks they can buy and hold. Individual investors can take advantage of this and here are three strategies that can deliver market-beating returns.

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Vale Graham Hand

It’s with heavy hearts that we announce Firstlinks’ co-founder and former Managing Editor, Graham Hand, has died aged 66. Graham was a legendary figure in the finance industry and here are three tributes to him.

Australian stocks will crush housing over the next decade, one year on

Last year, I wrote an article suggesting returns from ASX stocks would trample those from housing over the next decade. One year later, this is an update on how that forecast is going and what's changed since.

Avoiding wealth transfer pitfalls

Australia is in the early throes of an intergenerational wealth transfer worth an estimated $3.5 trillion. Here's a case study highlighting some of the challenges with transferring wealth between generations.

Taxpayers betrayed by Future Fund debacle

The Future Fund's original purpose was to meet the unfunded liabilities of Commonwealth defined benefit schemes. These liabilities have ballooned to an estimated $290 billion and taxpayers continue to be treated like fools.

Australia’s shameful super gap

ASFA provides a key guide for how much you will need to live on in retirement. Unfortunately it has many deficiencies, and the averages don't tell the full story of the growing gender superannuation gap.

Looking beyond banks for dividend income

The Big Four banks have had an extraordinary run and it’s left income investors with a conundrum: to stick with them even though they now offer relatively low dividend yields and limited growth prospects or to look elsewhere.

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