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Also etf securities have a short (& geared) ETF that tracks the Nasdaq

BetaShares have both asx200 & s&p500 short ETFs. Check their website. Cheers

I have had a hiatus from ASF for some-time & just recently re-acquainted. Work & family intervened as they tend to do. Terribly sorry to hear of Julia's passing. I always enjoyed her point of view on such a range of topics. As with so many others, she also would send me PMs from time-to-time to...

Anyone else following this back-door listing? Popped 32% today but had a little spike a few days back to 21.5c. Sells goats milk infant formula. Current price move is on the back of a recent NetEase Kaola. I've also had a squiz at 10cents and JD.com and Bubs products is all on there. This...

An abundance of caution would be my suggestion. 1. we saw with Estia & the like what can happen when you over-earn on the back of the aged. 2. The financials appear average - 1H17 accounts, operating cash-flow fell from substantially to $150m. Compare this to the p&l, where a profit was...

Straight out of uni into the union movement, straight from the union movement into the ALP. Live in a bubble your whole working career. He does share one pre-requisite; a lust for power. Sadly, this seems to be the only things the ALP stands for. It was interesting to see Bob Hawke on...

Xenaphon is on board. He is looking to introduce a bill into parliament about the Senate 'Senator Xenophon believes it is time to do away with above the line voting which led to ridiculously complicated preference deals. Similarly, below the line voting, requiring voters to number every...

Hi Julia, yes indeed I am a bloke. I had not thought about the trust angle. My interest is due to family reasons but I also do not have any great expertise in counselling etc. I work in the finance industry! I appreciate the feed-back. Some great suggestions here...

Hi Lantern, Only problem is I am living in inner city Melbourne! But that is a good idea that I had not thought off. Do you need any specialist skills or is it a matter of learning on the job

Nice touch. The strategist that 'helped' the micros gain power also owns a lobbying firm! Yep, democracy at work. 'The strategist behind the likely surprise election to the Senate of three minor party candidates, Glenn Druery, owns a lobbying firm selling itself to business as able to...

Hi all, Call it the start of a mid-life 'crises', but as I head towards 40 my mind is increasingly turning to how I can give something back to the community. I have two or three areas that I would be very interested in pursuing, namely: 1. helping women and kids recover from family...

Receiving a seat in the Senate due to 'back door' preference deals when you have received a tiny fraction of the primary vote cannot be right. I believe that the correct system should be that everyone votes 'below the line' and only lists their top five preferences after their primary...

Re: Micro party coalition to control the Senate ... Hi Julia, My expectation is that they will unify under Xenophon (or god help us, Palmer) due to a lack of political experience and funding. However, this will be a fraught 'coalition' at best. They will probably figure out that they...

Re: Micro party coalition to control the Senate ... The problem is the vested interests that will need to be met to get legislation through. In the WA example (Sports Party), these vested interests only represent 0.25% of the primary vote in WA. Yet the trade-off for say the Carbon Tax being...

I was listening to the new force in Australian politics on the radio before, namely the Australian Sport Party! This is an apolitical party that is mainly interested in raising sporting participation rates. A noble ideal in this age of obesity but should this really be a member of the 'micro...