Australian Interest Rates

As news is emerging that Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, will soon deliver a balanced budget for the first time since the GFC, one needs to ask if this is even...

RBA Governor Lowe has detailed his preference for a possible RBA Quantitative Easing (QE) program after further possible RBA rates cuts. Lowe suggests ‘’if’’ the RBA...

Treasurer Josh Frydenberg announced Monday an ACCC investigation into the banks not passing on interest rate cuts. I think the investigation will make a nice addition...

An interesting session locally with the RBA front and centre cutting rates as expected to 0.75% at 2.30pm this afternoon, the lowest level in history and enough to...

Deciding on where to allocate capital has seldom been much harder, as we traverse global financial markets replete with conflicting messages, political uncertainty,...

Investors have it all wrong. In a world of zero or negative interest rates, investors are being forced to chase return. The baby boomer generation (retirees) are all...

What is compounding? Albert Einstein is reported as saying that compound interest is “the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it; he who doesn’t,...

There’s an increasing frequency of articles I have read suggesting that low rates are now a permanent feature of markets, as is the likelihood of central banks...

Central banks (including ours) are faced with two choices: “rescue” the world from its economic slowdown; or stand aside and let the inevitable correction take place. ...

Australian housing prices have fallen 8.2% nationally from their peak in 2017, with declines of 10%-15% in the two largest cities, Sydney and Melbourne, according to...