A Finsec View – Lower for Longer, Bonds, A Visit from Magellan
It's rare that there is so much focus on bond yields and inflation, and it's mainly due to their potential impact on the sharemarket. However, it shows the perils of short-term predicting when the AFR carried the headline on Friday, 'Bonds blow up equity markets - again' and that night, the S&P500 rallied 2%, NASDAQ recovered 1.6%, and Australia has [...]
A Finsec View – Bitcoin, Lower for Longer and Super Update
Issue: Friday 19 February 2021 Last week was GameStop; this week, it's Bitcoin with some similar themes - waves of money, speculation and a movement behind it. Thanks mainly to a tweet from Elon Musk, Bitcoin has risen more than 30% in just over a week and is currently sitting just above $US50,000. Tesla's explanation for their $1.5 billion plunge [...]
A Finsec View – Robinhood, Bubbles, US Stimulus and Chinese Empires
Issue: Friday 5 February 2021 Welcome 2021 Traumatic events have a habit of etching themselves in our mind. We can remember where we were and what we were doing even if it was from thousands of miles away and we didn't have anything to do with it personally. For different generations this will mean different things. The GFC, the 9/11 [...]
The Australian Parliamentary Review
The Australian Parliamentary Review showcases organisations considered as exemplifying ‘best practice’ in their given industry. The review submissions are used as a learning tool to the public and private sector, in particular to those in financial services. The 2018 Finance Review was sent out to over 35,000 leading policymakers including members of the House of Representatives, Senators, Chief Executives, Managing Directors, [...]
UK Budget 2018 – Pension Announcements
The 2018 UK Budget announcements did not include much in the way of pensions this year with the Chancellor's focus squarely on pre-Brexit preparations. At a glance - The key points of (pension) relevance include: The Lifetime Allowance will increase to £1,055,000 from April 2019 (currently £1,030,000) There will be a ban on cold calling in respect to pension transfers [...]
Q. Is there ever a reason that you should delay transferring your pension to Australia based on exchange rates?
UK Pension Transfers to Australia - Exchange Rates
Q. Is it true that not everyone can transfer their UK Pension to Australia?
UK Pension Transfers to Australia - Eligibility Rules
Q. What does the future hold for pension transfers to Australia – is there further legislative change on the horizon?
UK Pension Transfers to Australia - Legislation
