An interest free loan from the tax man

In the immortal words of George Harrison… “If you drive a car, I’ll tax the street If you try to sit, I’ll tax your seat If you get too cold I’ll tax the heat If […]

Dissecting a P&L Statement

If you’re going to try to ‘go it alone’ and invest in direct shares, rather than opting for exposure to the stock market via managed funds then you have to know how to read a […]

5 Reasons P/E Ratios Lie

In Buying Companies – Part I we defined shares for what they are – part ownership in a company, and we had a quick look at valuations using the ‘quick and dirty’ P/E Ratio. Quick recap… […]

Buying Companies….Part 1.

….well, little tiny bits of them anyway. I want to talk about buying companies….cause thats what we’re really doing when we buy ‘shares’, or ‘stocks’ – we are buying tiny little pieces of a company […]

Are You Beating the Market?

Do you want to access the returns of the highest growth asset class, but don’t know where to start? Are you currently investing in direct shares (cause someone told you to buy ‘Blue Chips’ like […]