cland

cland replied to the topic Help needed. in the forum Help Needed! 5 years, 8 months ago

This might help from money side of things,

SellOrHold.com.au

cland replied to the topic Population growth is bad for capital growth in the forum Opinionated! 9 years, 6 months ago

Update: apparently, his blog has been published in the latest issue of Your Investment Magazine. A friend said it is on page 26. So they reckon he is right too. I’ve read it again like Benny and I’m more convinced now.

cland replied to the topic Population growth is bad for capital growth in the forum Opinionated! 9 years, 6 months ago

I get what you’re saying Jason about immigration. It is needed for aging population. That affects the entire country. But I think his blog is more for investors than politicians. At least that’s what I got out of it. We investors can’t use high population growth figures for finding high capital growth. It’s the other way around! Flies in the face…[Read more]

cland started the topic Population growth is bad for capital growth in the forum Opinionated! 9 years, 6 months ago

Apparently, population growth is now a bad thing if you’re looking for capital growth. What the…?!

There’s an article by Jeremy Shepard on how high population growth leads to low capital growth. Total opposite of what I’ve been doing.

Is this for real? First they tell us fat is bad for us, then they tell us the right kind of fat is actually…[Read more]

cland replied to the topic Does property have an asymmetric risk/reward profile? in the forum Opinionated! 9 years, 9 months ago

And there’s no guarantee your shares won’t be worthless in 20 years time (thanks Kodak). But property in 20 years time… gees it’d have to be under water or something.

cland replied to the topic Does property have an asymmetric risk/reward profile? in the forum Opinionated! 9 years, 9 months ago

A few years ago I heard someone make a good point that to beat the All Ords you need to be better than the fund managers. But beating the avg Aussie home owner’s capital growth should be pretty easy since they don’t think like investors. Dunno if that’s “asymmetric risk/reward profile” though.

I don’t understand share stuff, so not an option for…[Read more]