Finance & Fury Podcast
Episodes by Topic
Building Wealth & Investing
Focus on what you can control and reduce your stress levels
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Focus on what you can control Australia has been cancelled – IMO - The largest overreaction in history – the world of medical martial law Working from home, no public gatherings, not even meant to shake hands - Panic is the disease – The...
What has created a system where the share market can go down so quickly?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition What has created a system where the share market can go down so quickly? The perfect storm – Panic, OPEC agreement breaking down – computer algorithms kicking in, mass sell-offs of index funds The recent collapse...
Why has the oil price crashed? And it is an opportunity to buy the companies affected?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday Edition Question from one of my friends – What is happening to oil prices? Is it a time to buy oil linked companies due to large losses? Over the past few days the price of oil has plummeted On Monday - the Brent has...
Finance & Economics
Financial Bubbles and the lessons they have to teach
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition This week – see what lessons can be learned from - Last week - Story of Financial alchemy in its early days with the SSC bubble Been many bubbles since then – The Markets have a Cycle to them History of the last...
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...
Property
Are we in a property bubble and if so, why?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, Are we in a property bubble? There is no question that the Australian property market has become significantly overpriced – but is it a bubble and due for a significant downturn? – For this – only talking about capital cities – most of...
Can shares be leveraged as part of a property purchase?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday Edition I would like to start by saying a big thank you for the knowledge you have passed onto myself and the community. My question lies around equity, if you have a considerable amount of money in shares, say 200k,...
Build to rent: Why are Banks and Super Funds becoming large Corporate Landlords?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, Past few Monday eps on Share concentration – and the holdings and influence that super funds have Today – talk about the legislation put into place and the plans going on now where you might end up renting an apartment from your super...
Shares
Wisr – Is it a good investment opportunity or is it on its last legs?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Saw What Wednesday Edition – Question from Jack This is going to be a bit of a Q&A style episode – he did a lot of research and sent it through – making my job easy on this one – so thank you for that Jacks Question - I wonder what...
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...
Superannuation & Retirement
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...
Say What Wednesday: Labor’s policy changes – Franking credits, negative gearing, super, and CGT
Welcome to Finance & Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ edition where every week we answer questions from you guys. Today’s question is from John; “Thanks for the podcast and the content you provide. I thought a useful podcast topic could be the...
Say What Wednesdays: Financial Advice – The process, the costs, and if seeking advice is for you
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday Episode, where every we answer questions from you guys! This week’s question comes from Nelson, “Hi mate, Love the podcast. Admittedly don't agree with some of your more conservative political opinions but that aside...
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
The Election Battle between those who pay tax, and those who don’t
Welcome to Finance and Fury Today will be a quick update for the upcoming election and policies in response to the budget plans released last week. This election is becoming a battle for votes among salary earners. In the past we have talked about class warfare...
Say What Wednesday: Labor’s policy changes – Franking credits, negative gearing, super, and CGT
Welcome to Finance & Fury, the ‘Say What Wednesday’ edition where every week we answer questions from you guys. Today’s question is from John; “Thanks for the podcast and the content you provide. I thought a useful podcast topic could be the...
Furious Fridays: Furious Fridays: The Myth of trickle-down economics
Hey all, and Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Have you ever heard of trickle-down economics? As you know, Friday episodes are here to clear up any misconceptions about economics and politics, and this is the biggest one when it comes to...
Debt and Cash Flow
When to refinance and negotiate value
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today we have Jayden with us, and we will be talking about negotiating with banks and refinancing. Refinancing: Pros and Cons and how to negotiate Bank Valuations Interest rates might go up or might go down.so this is all about asking, is...
9 reasons your loan may have been rejected
Episode 38 9 reasons your loan may have been rejected Welcome to Finance & Fury. Today we’re talking about 9 reasons you may have your home loan application declined. We have Jayden Vecchio this episode running through the 9 reasons. As a result of the recent...
Say What Wednesday: Paying your home loan off with debt
Say What Wednesday Paying your home loan off with debt How can you pay off a mortgage with debt? Velocity banking and Offset accounts This question comes from Tom a podcast listener. He asks “Just wondering if you have ever used Velocity banking at all to pay down...
Welfare & Social Security
The Curious case of Pandemic Bonds
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday edition You probably are exhausted about the coronavirus - What you probably haven’t heard about is A little known type of bond created in 2017 by the World Bank. The World Bank – Headquartered in Washington DC – back in...
At their current prices, are Bank Shares a good income investment?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Say What Wednesday edition This week the question from Jayden – Are CBA and other bank shares a good investment for dividends at the moment? Based around current price and un-updated yields – Based around prices and assuming dividends...
Focus on what you can control and reduce your stress levels
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Focus on what you can control Australia has been cancelled – IMO - The largest overreaction in history – the world of medical martial law Working from home, no public gatherings, not even meant to shake hands - Panic is the disease – The...
Technology & New Ideas
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...
The BIS versus BTC – What are the plans to replace current crypto currency markets?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition Monday ep this week went through BTC – Went through a monetary reset towards a crypto-fiat system – Today – talk more The BIS and central banks versus BTC and the crypto markets – how are they planning to get...
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...
The Intro Eps
(Intro Series) From ‘Puzzle’ to ‘Map’
Intro - Episode 3 From 'Puzzle' to 'Map' Welcome to the 3rd part of the intro series for Finance and Fury. Today let’s start with a bit of time travel. Picture 1500’s, London. All the guys have hipster like facial hair, accessories, the big beards, the little curly...
(Intro Series) Translating Finance
Intro - Episode 2 Translating Finance Welcome to Part 2 of this intro series to Finance & Fury. Today I wanted to start this episode off with getting you to imaging you’ve hit the lotto jackpot! Say for instance, you’ve got a guaranteed million dollars per annum...
(Intro Series) What is financial independence?
Intro - Episode 1 What is Financial Independence? Welcome to the first part of this intro series to “Finance and Fury”. This series is brought to you by THINKING, as thinking is where this all started! Thinking about the easiest solutions to reaching financial...