Does the 50,000 have any meaning?

Is it just a big round number with a lot of useless hype around it? Maybe not...

Two kinds of allocation

Do your asset allocation and your attention allocation match? We can help.

A warning for the future

Even though a 90 per cent plus vote bodes well for investors, the Franklin affair raises some troubling questions for the future

Your timing temptation

Investors can hear the clock ticking and are striving to time a perfect exit from the booming equity market. Don't make this mistake.

The capital-gains tax should be indexable

The unavailability of cost-indexing for gains made on equity-based investments is an avoidable inconsistency in the tax system

No Alibaba, just the forty thieves

The Alibaba story appears to be taking a turn that we had warned against at the time of its strange IPO six years ago