MasterChef lessons for your money

By MoneyHQ. The run away success of MasterChef Australia has been hard to ignore. Record sponsorship deals, huge television ratings, a positively beaming Curtis Stone, charming celebrity chefs, stressful food challenges  and emotionally gripping stories of personal and team success (and sometimes failure), tears and triumphs which all ultimately culminate to an unmissable grand finale. MasterChef may be about excellence in the kitchen but there are unmissable life lessons to... Read More

What’s up (or down) with the BDI?

By David Llewellyn-Smith Coal, iron ore and grain prices are all headed one way – up. Yet the Baltic Dry Index, the generally reliable gauge of demand for bulk commodities is collapsing. Last year the BDI correctly foreshadowed and tracked the mid-year slowdown in the global economy, despite being given short shrift by many bullish commentators seeking to rationalise an upward bias in markets. So what’s going on now? The answer appears to be the QLD floods. As... Read More

The dominoes of inflation…

By Bear Feller. Over the last couple of months this column has been used as a forum to articulate my concerns over various risks to the economy and the markets, especially risks seen through a macroeconomic and geopolitical lens in an age where traditional methods of fundamental and technical analysis are proving to be less reliable. The biggest geo/macro risk I see to the economy, especially to Australia where I’m based, is of course the collapse of the Chinese economy;... Read More