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Not only is Australia yet again officially the second the best country in the world, it’s the first to raise interest rates.
See you at parity my US friends See you real soon! This raise took AUD over 88 cents. I’ve been banging on about the short USD long AUD trade for most of this year and despite the sudden rush of people late to the party I don’t see it breaking down yet.
I love this comment “Only one of 20 economists surveyed by Bloomberg News forecast today’s move. The …
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I continue to up our Australian allocation as I pull back from my favoured investing destination of the US. Regularly taking your Australian potion should help with some of the common side side effects of a devaluing greenback and inflation.
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Overview for international investors on why and how to invest in Australia via American Depository Receipts (ADRs), index funds, ETFs and direct investing.
When thinking about investing in Australia most international investors first think of mining. They may be surprised to find that “Australia’s economy is now a service-based economy, with service industries accounting for around 70 per cent of total gross value added. The finance and insurance industry is larger than the booming mining sector…”
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Using the Kelly Formula for Portfolio Management:
I have two main uses for the Kelly formula, neither of which are the intended purpose. My third and less important use is the intended purpose of Kelly, an aid in determining my indiviudal investment size.
I use Kelly as a comparitive tool and as and aid to focusing on probabilities, risk and returns. Before we dive into each of those I should explain how I use a method that is designed to be used with binary outcomes with known odds for investing, where their are multiple possible outcomes with unknown odds.
At the bottom I link some great articles from Ed Thorp, John Kelly, Michael Mauboussin and Paul Samuelson









