Funds Focus

Protection when there’s blood on the streets
We have seen some significant falls in the sharemarket over the last 18 months. Increase in investor anxiety over equity investments has in turn seen a huge rise in the demand for capital protected and capital guaranteed products.

This issue’s Back to Basics considers whether now is the time to look for capital protection within your portfolio and what are the differences in the structures currently available?

One of Warren Buffett’s most

A-REITS: Despair or a new dawn?
Andrew Reeve-Parker, Director of NW Advice,
offers his insight into listed property

The Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) index is down 59.6% on a rolling 12 month basis and with intra-day swings in excess of 10%, the conservative landlord image is not washing with spooked investors.  As tracked by the SPDR exchange traded fund, SLF, the trailing yield is 16.6%. Unfortunately trailing yields are not going to be accurate in the

With investors seeing the investment markets moving more in a day than in a whole year, the mental uncertainty this creates means that investors can find themselves sitting in the sidelines watching the window of opportunity pass them by. We find it very easy to throw money at the markets when times are good but are reticent to invest when the market has fallen and prices are low.

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to the psychology of investing and why we have a tendency to repeat the same