Finance & Fury Podcast
Episodes by Topic
Building Wealth & Investing
How to turn down the media noise in investment markets and focus on what matters
Welcome to Finance and Fury 2020 has seen a very noisy start to the year – But what’s new? The media is constantly reporting on one major event after the other – fear sells better than nice stories – The more fearful the event – the more traffic that is driven on...
Lessons from the past – The South Sea Bubble and the early days of financial alchemy!
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today - Lesson from the past – Story of Financial alchemy in its early days Specifically – turning debt into equity – i.e. financial alchemy Story Starts - In 1700s the English Crown had amassed massive debts –...
How do you use your superannuation funds to buy a property?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesdays Edition – Where each week we answer your questions Today's question comes from Cameron We are a couple, both aged 30 with approx 70k in each of our super accounts. We are interested in SMSFs with a view to...
Finance & Economics
The political battleground around you being able to control where your superannuation is invested.
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today, the episode is delving a little deeper into superannuation I Work as a financial adviser – see a lot of changes to the legislation of superannuation since I joined the industry in 2011 – Today - Episode on...
What does Central Bank issued cryptocurrency look like?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday Edition Welcome to FF FF – Hasn’t been a FF in a while – but last was running through Crypto markets in relation to the BIS and powers that be Today – Want to cover the potential of what central banks using crypto and by...
What leads to hyperinflation and if there is any possibility of seeing that sort of scenario in Australia
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday Edition, Where we answer your questions, today's question is from Sol Tau Thanks for the Podcast and all the great info it provides. Could you explain what leads to hyperinflation and if there is any possibility of...
Property
How do you use your superannuation funds to buy a property?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesdays Edition – Where each week we answer your questions Today's question comes from Cameron We are a couple, both aged 30 with approx 70k in each of our super accounts. We are interested in SMSFs with a view to...
What factors will make property prices rise in Australia?
Welcome to Finance and Fury On the last episode – looked at signs property prices will be high Today – continue and look at based on these factors - Will property prices keep going up? First – recap of the Tell-tale characteristic to be able to tell if property prices...
How can you tell that property prices will be high in a city?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, Back from Holidays – spent some time in the USA - Got me thinking about differences in property and their pricing – seeing property prices vary differently state to state – city to city – want to do a Series on property and its prices –...
Shares
The “Australian Berkshire Hathaway” – Is there an opportunity to buy in due to recent underperformance?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday Edition I've been looking at Soul Patt (ASX: SOL) recently as I've heard some commentators refer to them as the "Australian Berkshire Hathaway" but noticed they have underperformed the ASX200 index over the last 12...
Lessons from the Big Short and Michael Burry about high conviction investing over passive investing.
Welcome to Finance and Fury Want to touch on passive investing versus higher conviction investing I watched the Big Short last weekend – many people asked me if I had seen it and were surprised when I hadn’t – don’t watch many finance movies or documentaries – find...
What are TraCRs and how do they compare to buying international shares directly?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday Edition Today's question comes from Chris What are your thoughts on TraCRs? I can’t recall if you’ve spoken about them before on your past episodes, if you have which one was that and I’ll go back and listen? How...
Superannuation & Retirement
The political battleground around you being able to control where your superannuation is invested.
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today, the episode is delving a little deeper into superannuation I Work as a financial adviser – see a lot of changes to the legislation of superannuation since I joined the industry in 2011 – Today - Episode on...
How do I transfer an overseas pension fund to Australia?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday Edition Today we have a question from Luke. Hi Louis, I listen to you often. Very informative and interesting episodes. My question is regarding super/pensions. I lived and worked in the U.K. for about 10 years - and...
How do I make an Investment Philosophy?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today we are going to talk about how to implement an investment philosophy. It is a coherent way of thinking how you fit into your investment plan. It is a mission statement to follow when investing. It can help with understanding the types...
Politics, Psychology and your money
Lessons from the past – The South Sea Bubble and the early days of financial alchemy!
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today - Lesson from the past – Story of Financial alchemy in its early days Specifically – turning debt into equity – i.e. financial alchemy Story Starts - In 1700s the English Crown had amassed massive debts –...
The coronavirus – a real economic threat or just market noise creating volatility?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today – want to run through Coronavirus – Is it market noise or is it going to be an economic doomsday? First - It is too early to quantify the potential impact of the coronavirus on China. Much will depend on the attack and case fatality...
How does corporate debt fuel market bubbles?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today – want to look at how much Corporate debt has been fuelling the top end of the share markets growth – signs that if liquidity is withdrawn, companies and markets collapse Last FF ep – went through...
The Central Banking Bubble and what happens to asset prices if central banks stop QE?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition I often wonder – Why the Fed/Central banks continue with polices that create a massive misallocation or resources and are hurting the economy more than helping – well – what If they cant stop or a collapse might...
The political battleground around you being able to control where your superannuation is invested.
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today, the episode is delving a little deeper into superannuation I Work as a financial adviser – see a lot of changes to the legislation of superannuation since I joined the industry in 2011 – Today - Episode on...
The battles between Central Banks and Governments during the great depression, and the plot of a Military Coup
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Last ep – lead up to the market crash of 1929 - and how thanks to central bank leveraging once removed – the market crashed Today – want to run through the internal political wars that were created – similar...
Tax
What happens when a family trust comes to the end of its life? What happens with the assets and are there CGT or stamp duty liabilities?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday edition. Today's question comes from Gab. Hi Louis, thank you (as always) for the great content. I've got another question that I've struggled with recently, and I'm hoping you can shed some light on the topic. I've...
Pay more in taxes, electricity prices and costs of goods, or the climate will change!
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition Today – cover Resource control over an economy/society – Energy, food, water – Many SDGs – 7, 13, 15, 16 – Mainly focus on 7 and 13 – this is the core of most SDGs – justifications for them anyway Goal 13:...
Death and taxes, or taxed to death?
Welcome to Finance and Fury A plan for structural reforms to help increase Australians’ ability for upward mobility. The coalition will likely have enough seats to squeeze through a lot of reforms. Today: Income axes going up aren’t much of a concern What about the...
Debt and Cash Flow
How to use your home for Investments
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today we have Jayden here, and we will be talking about using your home for as an investment and as a forced savings account. You can start turning the bad debt into good debt. Through paying down the loan quicker, and then redrawing on the...
The 4 reasons when not to buy property
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today’s episode is with Jayden and we will be talking about why property might not work for you, or when you shouldn’t buy property. We have talked about using property to build long term wealth using leverage. However, there are some...
Say What Wednesday: Australia’s National Debt Crisis – a ticking time bomb
Welcome to Finance & Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ edition. Today’s question comes from Brad, “Any chance you could do a podcast on Australian foreign debt? Is it possible to pay it off? Will paying it off have a negative effect on our economy? Are most or all...
Welfare & Social Security
The coronavirus – a real economic threat or just market noise creating volatility?
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today – want to run through Coronavirus – Is it market noise or is it going to be an economic doomsday? First - It is too early to quantify the potential impact of the coronavirus on China. Much will depend on the attack and case fatality...
How does corporate debt fuel market bubbles?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today – want to look at how much Corporate debt has been fuelling the top end of the share markets growth – signs that if liquidity is withdrawn, companies and markets collapse Last FF ep – went through...
The “Australian Berkshire Hathaway” – Is there an opportunity to buy in due to recent underperformance?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday Edition I've been looking at Soul Patt (ASX: SOL) recently as I've heard some commentators refer to them as the "Australian Berkshire Hathaway" but noticed they have underperformed the ASX200 index over the last 12...
Technology & New Ideas
What is happening in the Repo Market? Banks bankruptcy or just business as usual?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday Edition Question from Mark part 2: Can you explain the repo markets that are going on at the moment? Apparently the banks are loaning money from the Feds at 10% so they have enough liquidity to survive the night/Bank...
If the future of money is crypto currency, why might Bitcoin be a trap?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, Last Friday – new monetary reset might be going digital Today – Dive into Cyrpto/BTC potential traps of the future – The potential regulation and eventual centralisation of Cryptocurrency at the nation-state level – i.e. domestically in...
Never let a crisis go to waste – Why to watch out for proposed economic solutions after a financial collapse.
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Today – want to explain why to watch out for proposed solutions to economic or societal issues Last ep – talked about the battleground between the Bankers and Governments back in the early 30s – Was a wild...
The Intro Eps
(Intro Series) The wrap up party
Intro - Episode 6 The wrap up party Hey guys! Welcome to the wrap up party for this little intro series Well done if you’ve made it to this point listening. I know a lot of it could have come across pretty confusing …and don’t worry I was quite confused myself by this...
(Intro Series) What does your retirement look like, and why?
Intro - Episode 5 What does your retirement look like, and why? What do you normally think about before you go anywhere? Anyone who has ever left the house before has probably had to think about something before taking a step out the front door. Anyone who hasn’t,...
(Intro Series) Trusting yourself and learning the basics
Intro - Episode 4 Trusting yourself and learning the basics To start off, do you think that having a map to financial independence would be the ideal solution? Compared to a puzzle it actually would be far better than trying to piece together something, if you could...