Finance & Fury Podcast
Episodes by Topic
Building Wealth & Investing
Another banking crisis?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode will be about the risk in financial markets over bank runs, and the liquidity fears and contagion risks ramping up in the financial sector – something legitimate or white noise? Large declines in financials, i.e. banks – Last...
Managed Funds or Exchange Traded Funds (ETF)?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. ETFs vs managed funds – Same same but different – when to use In many ways, managed funds and exchange traded funds (ETFs) are the same. They are both investment vehicles that allow investors to pool their funds with other investors...
A response to “capitalism after the crises”
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Jim Chalmers, the treasurer of Australia recently wrote and published an article. Saw a lot of people freaking out about it – wanted to have a look and see if there is anything to the concerns This was a 6000+ word essay – titled...
Finance & Economics
The collapse of Credit Suisse, bail ins and moral hazard
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode is about the banking system – the collapse of credit Suisse and looking at how bail ins, bail outs work and the moral hazard this creates. In in an effort to answer the question: Is having a back stop from letting banks...
Is the bank ‘crisis’ over?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In last weeks episode, I stated that I was going to cover the collapse of SVB, but by now this is old news and there have been further developments – so we will still give a quick recap on SVB but the main focus will be on further...
Another banking crisis?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode will be about the risk in financial markets over bank runs, and the liquidity fears and contagion risks ramping up in the financial sector – something legitimate or white noise? Large declines in financials, i.e. banks – Last...
Property
All else being equal, what influences property prices more than anything else?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode we look at the most important factor that moves property prices. In other words, what one thing affects property prices more than anything both positively or negatively. This doesn’t mean that it is the only thing that...
Affordable rental policies and unintended consequences
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today’s episode is going to be going through some economic theory on some recent promises from politicians on housing policy – the focus on most of these has been on rental markets – for affordable rent – there’s lots of coverage on...
The future state of the housing market.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Current state of the housing market – and the influence The RBA has and will have on Housing prices. The RBA has a long history of influencing the Australian housing market due to their control over the cash rate – for the past 30+ years –...
Shares
Should I invest in large, mid or small cap shares?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Where to invest within the share market? Large, mid or small cap? What is best? The answer to this is highly dependant on what types of returns you need – and your timeframes The content of this episode is general information only – Not...
Will the market crash in 2023?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Will the market crash in 2023? Interesting question – one that many people have answered. Every year - Ipsos asked more than 24,000 citizens of 36 countries to reflect on the year gone by and also make some predictions for the year ahead –...
Investing around geopolitical risks
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode we will be looking at geopolitical risks and equity portfolios. Geopolitical risks are nothing new – these are always going on and equity markets are always looking at geopolitical risks – and how it will impact the price...
Superannuation & Retirement
Vanguard’s plans to disrupt the Australian superannuation industry.
Welcome to Finance and Fury – Vanguard bringing in some disruption to Australian markets - If you haven’t heard of them – Vanguard are the world's second biggest asset manager – dealing in index funds and ETFs Vanguard – have almost $9 trillion of funds under...
Checking if your superannuation is appropriately invested for you.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Today we’ll look at how to get the right investments in super. Because super funds take care of it for people – a lot of people don’t pay attention – so in this episode want to explain what to look for and how to help determine if your...
The superannuation changes coming to an account near you.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode – want to look at the proposals for the superannuation industry overhaul – released in the latest budget – as there are some pretty big changes – In the budget – the super system is likely to be in for a shake up due to the...
Politics, Psychology and your money
Moral hazard and the Evergrande collapse
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode we will be looking at the Property market in China and focus on the Evergrande developments – in particular if there is actually a timebomb starting to surface – and look at the potential contagion risks to the rest of the...
Society, individual purpose and the undiscovered self
Welcome to Finance and Fury. I’d like to start a serious conversation about the individual self and our drive for meaning within society. This relates to economics and by extension, personal finance – as economics focuses on how the individual incentives drive...
Will the next financial crisis come from the USA or China?
Welcome to Finance and Fury This episode, look at where the next financial crisis may come from – Will it be from the USA or from China? This is a question I was thinking about the other day – as there is a lot of talk about the Chinese economic being built on a house...
The economics of the Olympics – A golden opportunity or a bronze bust?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. As you might have seen, Brisbane has won the bid for the 2032 Olympics – but is this a good thing for the SEQ economy and the people living in it? in this episode we will have a look at the economics of the Olympics – we will Look at the...
El Salvador and Bitcoin – a match made in heaven?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode we will continue to look at what is happening in crypto markets. After last episode, we are starting a bit of a mini-series on crypto and digital currencies. This wasn’t originally intended but I have been doing more of a deep...
What is stakeholder theory and what does it mean for capital markets and investments?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. What is stakeholder theory and what does it mean for capital markets and investments? World Economic Forum annual agenda occurred a few weeks ago. One year ago, the World Economic Forum launched a new ‘Davos Manifesto’ in support of...
Tax
Will the proposed Stamp Duty reforms make property more affordable?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. A few weeks ago we went through the NZ government tasking the RBNZ with looking at property prices with monetary policy. in that episode, we went through why it probably isn’t going to really work well – politically the perception is that...
How to use the recent tax cuts as an opportunity to build additional wealth!
Welcome to Finance and Fury You might have seen the budget that came out last week – in this episode we will be looking at the bringing forward of the tax cut – but also using this as an opportunity and what to do with it The budget and the tax cuts – The Government...
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...
Debt and Cash Flow
Should I make additional mortgage repayments or start investing?
Welcome to Finance and Fury, the Say What Wednesday edition. This week’s question is from Scott: “Hi Louis, I am currently in my 30s and have recently bought my first home. I would like to get your view if I should take advantage of low interest rates and start to put...
How to avoid getting further into debt and get spending habits back in line
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Credit cards and pay day lenders are on the rise, as some of those out of work are becoming strapped for cash. Today, we look at this further but also look at some alternative strategies to avoid the debt traps. We’ll also look at how to...
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...
Welfare & Social Security
Debt ceilings and defaults
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Debt ceilings, at the moment there are many media pundits warning about the US defaulting on their debt and the fallout that would follow, being a complete economic meltdown. We are going to do a deeper dive into this in today’s episode....
The French Revolution to Marx
Welcome to Finance and Fury. If you are up for learning about history a little bit of often skipped over– tune in – this episode is about how reforms for economic liberalism, turned into authoritarianism, but gave the rise to the thought experiment of communism,...
Are banks doing more harm than good?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. Recent issues with banks has once again highlighted the fragility with the financial sector and the impact this can have on financial markets, the economy and daily lives – these failures have come from the smaller bank sectors and their...
Technology & New Ideas
El Salvador and Bitcoin – a match made in heaven?
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode we will continue to look at what is happening in crypto markets. After last episode, we are starting a bit of a mini-series on crypto and digital currencies. This wasn’t originally intended but I have been doing more of a deep...
My thoughts on cryptocurrencies: the ups and downs of an unregulated market.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. This episode we will look at crypto markets as there is a fair amount of noise being generated in this space at the moment. Just a heads up that this will be a bit of a longer episode as there is a lot to unpack. I have made my position on...
Market integrity, disruptions, innovations and the fallout of Wall Street versus retail traders.
Welcome to Finance and Fury. In this episode, we are going to look at some of the potential fallouts from the GameStop saga – looking at market disruptions, market integrity and the ongoing implications of potential regulation changes If you want an overview of this,...
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...