Finance & Fury Podcast
Episodes by Topic
Building Wealth & Investing
Is it time to jump into or get out of the tech bandwagon?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. A lot of people may be feeling regret right now - regret for not holding technology shares like Afterpay – it is up around 850% from the low in March Was not buying tech shares a bad decision? And is there potential from here? Look at this...
What are the best methods of accessing gold and what are the opportunity costs to growth and income returns?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question comes from Mario “Loving the podcast on the central banks. I have a question about purchasing gold as part of my investment strategy. My core investment strategy is to invest in high...
What are the investment opportunities that come from the ageing population trend?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question is from Shaf – “I would like to get your opinion/analysis on Australia’s ageing population, and investment opportunities that are linked to this segment of the market. For example,...
Finance & Economics
Can public infrastructure spending help to boost a depressed economy?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Can public infrastructure spending help to boost a depressed economy? In this episode we look at the theory of infrastructure spending on public goods, such as roads and bridges, versus the practical reality of this type of fiscal policy....
Should I fix my home loan interest rate?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question is from Charl regarding his home loan. “My bank is currently offering a 2.29% interest rate on a 3-year fixed loan. I am currently on a 2.99% Variable rate with them and am considering...
How accurate are economic statistics and do they really matter in our daily lives?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today we’re look at if economic data really means anything. I was thinking – and do any of these numbers really matters to you? Or even to me? Think about this – talk about a lot of the metrics – GDP, Inflation,...
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 future of the share market: How central bank intervention will be a dominant factor going forward.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Investing in the equity or debt markets in the world with greater levels of Central bank interventions – The rebounds of the market – seems to be responding to the Fed and the US Treasury Last week – the ASX recorded its biggest one-day...
How fear can control the share market and how to invest without fear
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today we’ll talk about what rules the market, fear, and why it is important to have some fears but also overcome them Fears rule the market – and the more fear makes the market more volatile Occurs on both side – fears of losing money –...
The share market in March! Comparing now to 2008 and 2009 and which one we are closest to?
Welcome to Finance and Fury - Where are we at? Market has been going up - Looking at a chart – March in 3 particular years stand out – 2008, 2009 and 2020 – Why? They are each their own respective bottoms of the market after declines – In this episode - March 2008,...
Superannuation & Retirement
The personal financial pitfalls from stimulus measures
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Today we'll be looking at some of the pitfalls of the recent financial measures to combat the economic fallout that is going on Two major ones when it comes to the personal side of this- Money out of super – Easing the rules of...
Are superannuation funds in danger?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Today – want to run through what is happening within the industry superannuation environment – not looking good With the market crash – cracks in the financial system are starting to appear – with almost no...
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...
Politics, Psychology and your money
What does the future of the economy look like?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. In today’s episode we look at what the future of the economy looks like? First – I want to say a massive thank you to everyone who has given great feedback and your support – many of you have reached out...
Never let a good crisis go to waste – The new evolutionary phase of the economic system.
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Last year through September, October and November – was running through the future of the economy – was looking at this through a few episodes – interesting to see a lot of what was discussed playing out now In those episodes – went...
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...
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...
The market is in retreat! Is it from the economic impacts of the coronavirus or speculative selling and is it a good time to buy?
Welcome to Finance and Fury What a week last week was for markets – ASX lost value of just under 10% - All around news of the Coronavirus and speculation on Government responses – So Aus and international markets have dropped heavily – might be thinking that it is...
What can a Kondratieff Wave and what can it tell us about the economy over the long term?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, The Furious Friday Edition With the current state of the markets – and the focus only on today's news and short-term cycles - In this episode – we will be looking at economies and markets in relation to Waves and cycles in a complex system...
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
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
Is water investment the petroleum of the 21st century?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Furious Friday edition. Episode today about a trend over the past decade and moving forward – is water the new petroleum? A few episodes ago – went through what is more valuable – a TV or water – depends on your perception and what is...
Are the risks from investments in structured products worth their potential returns?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week the question comes from Mina. “I would love to get your view on Structured products like the ones being offered by sequoia. Is the risk worth the return?” Great question – thanks Mina - this...
Is it time to jump into or get out of the tech bandwagon?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. A lot of people may be feeling regret right now - regret for not holding technology shares like Afterpay – it is up around 850% from the low in March Was not buying tech shares a bad decision? And is there potential from here? Look at this...
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...