Is cash a good investment for your portfolio? Obviously, investors need cash to start investing. But instead of spending the money on other asset classes, we're talking about investing in cash itself - investing in money market funds, savings accounts or certificates of deposits, is a popular financial strategy for many individuals and businesses. This type…

Many investors rely on share trading rules because improvisation rarely (if ever) pays off. The most durable rules tend to survive because they address recurring behavioural failures: overconfidence, loss aversion, position‑size drift, and the tendency to abandon discipline during volatility spikes. In our view, the value of a trading rule lies less in its originality…

Treasurer Jim Chalmers spent months building up the case for changing Australia's capital gains tax discount on investment properties, only to apply it to all asset classes, purportedly just because people would create companies or trusts just to buy real estate and still access the discount. Correcting a distortion that inflates residential land prices without removing…