04. How to understand the stock market

Part two with Dave Gow from Strong Money Australia picks up where the numbers end. Plenty of people hit their FIRE number and then freeze: scared to pull the pin, unsure who they are without a job, quietly signing up for one more year. It's the problem that prompted Dave's second ...  Show more

The final part of the economics series tackles the question every investor asks eventually: can you actually time the market? Evan Lucas's answer starts one step back, with why the market isn't the economy in the first place, and ends somewhere more useful: the behavioural traps ...  Show more

In this week's Talking Wealth Podcast, Dale and Janine discuss the essential elements investors need to understand to manage their risk in the stock market. They share their insights into understanding what risk is; the types of risk you’ll face in the stock market and, most impo ...  Show more

Hey Smarties! We get a lot of questions about the stock market, and today we’re sharing an episode from “Financially Inclined,” Marketplace’s new podcast for teens, that might answer some of them. Host Yanely Espinal gets into how the stock market works, the difference between st ...  Show more

In this week’s Talking Wealth Podcast, Dale and Janine uncover what influences stocks and the stock market to go up and down and for many, it’s unlikely to be what you might think. Underneath it all, the stock market is a thermometer of social mood and there are always signs to o ...  Show more

It's not only the big American stocks that have taken a battering lately. Some of our local Australian 'market-darlings' have also taken big hits. So in today's episode, Bryce and Alec run through some company valuations and discount cash-flows (and reverse discounted ...