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In this video market update Christopher Hall casts his eye over the leading shares and themes over the past fortnight.

This is going to be a non-technical take on volatility. If you are interested in a better understanding of “standard deviation” or “dispersion of returns” then stop reading now.

Many of the world’s sports greats may have been born with their talents, yet they all needed the help of a coach to help them become champions. The same goes for financial success, where doing-it-yourself is rarely better.

In the video market update Christopher Hall casts his eye over the leading shares and themes over the past fortnight.

There are exceptions to every rule, but we are not interested in the exceptions. The themes in this article are high level and strategic and will not date over time.

The prospect of growth for an investor brings to mind emerging Asian economies, start-ups or mining companies. Over the last few years the US, as the world’s largest economy, has provided phenomenal growth from soaring share-prices. As the world-economic wheel turns and the US markets get to full-value we look to see how and why Europe if offering reliable income, growth and stability.

A family trust is a useful and powerful tool when used in the right circumstances. That being said, too often they are set up without proper consideration of their utility, costs or setbacks.

Estate planning is the classic Important Not Urgent task on our to-do lists. It is simply one of those things that needs to be done and is always at the bottom of our priority lists. The best way to get it done, and done well, is not to do it yourself. Engage a professional and that will force you to address it.

The Australian share market is a strong representation of the Australian economy, although the direction the ASX moves if often driven by global forces. Understanding these external forces can reveal early-stage opportunities for Australian investors on the ASX.

Since 2007, there has been an ever increasing interest in using ones superannuation to buy an investment property (via an SMSF). It wasn’t really until 2010 that the strategy started to gain traction as major banks begin offering SMSF loans with competitive interest rates.

The more traditional formats of this question are:

Tesla (TSLA US) announced that it produced 18,000 vehicles in the second quarter of 2016 and delivered 14,400 vehicles to customers. This is below their forecasts of producing 20,000 and delivering 17,000 vehicles.

In the video market update Christopher Hall casts his eye over the leading shares and themes over the past fortnight.

It’s a new financial year and you have been threatening to borrow and invest for some time into a residential investment property.

SMSFs form the largest and fastest growing sector of the $1.9 Trillion superannuation system with over 30,000 new funds set up annually and an estimated $600 Billion of assets.

Let’s do something different for a change. Let’s discuss tax planning at the beginning of the financial year rather than at the end. What is the point of the last minute mad rush each and every June? Also I prefer BOFY (Beginning of Financial Year) to EOFY, it has a nicer ring to it.

This is almost a reverse stack – the biggest companies fell the most, while the smallest gained the most.

Let’s cut through the BREXIT chatter and look at the numbers, stages, themes, triggers, turning points, what’s next, and what themes are dismissing Brexit entirely?

Here are the Leaders and losers post-Brexit vote. 

Seeing the future will impact your view of today. Thinking about and planning for the future can have a strong impact on our spending, saving and investing behaviour.

The ASX has split the Australian investment community with their proposed changes to Initial Public Offerings (IPOs). There are several hurdles that companies face to get on the ASX via the IPO process.

The ASX has split the Australian investment community with their proposed changes to Initial Public Offerings (IPOs).

In chess, the best tactics can’t win you the game if you don’t have a proper strategy in place, an End Game. Strategy is about setting up long-term goals and objectives, a vision for the future that motivates and pulls you. It involves understanding what you want to do and why you want to do it. Tactics are the actions that get you there.

In this edition of Market Update Christopher Hall reviews Graphite & Lithium companies, Oil & Gas Services and Mining Service Companies.  

I am writing this article on the simple assumption that if you borrow money you should have a plan to pay it back. I cannot think of a simpler and more self-evident statement.

Green-Tech shares rank number 1,2 and 3 all up 40% in two weeks.

Gearing is the act of borrowing money to buy something that “inflates” in value. The “inflation” of the asset is what we call “growth”.

If you are under 40, earn a good income, but are still renting and have no assets of any real value, you could well be a GINA (Great Income, No Assets).

BHP and RIO: “Bottom line is I think there are higher-quality businesses to invest in” says seasoned fund manager Ronni Chalmers, Chief Investment Officer, CBG Capital Limited (CBC).

Wow, what a budget. This is the most significant budget of the last decade as it relates to superannuation.

Wilson Asset Management are bringing another Listed Investment Company (LIC) to the ASX, WAM Leaders (WLE).

The market has already priced in a dividend drop from ANZ with their share price down -32% over the last year. Next week NAB and WBC will announce whether their dividends drop or not, along with the official announcement from ANZ.