A practical guide to share investing in Australia: ASX shares, ETFs, LICs, dividends, franking credits, brokers and tax. No hot tips or charting theatre — just the structures, costs and rules that shape what you actually keep.
Australia is 1.6% of the world’s listed equity value and the ASX 200 keeps almost 60% of its weight in banks and miners. The case for sending part of the share portfolio offshore — the returns record, the platforms compared on what they really cost, and where the argument breaks down.
Read the article →Official references: ASX index guide, ATO CGT guide and ASIC MoneySmart ETF guide.
Australia is 1.6% of global listed equity. What that means for an ASX-only portfolio, and what going offshore actually costs.
Alibaba trades near US$120 while analysts average about US$187. The bull case, the bear case, the valuation and the risks.
What Australians can actually buy as AI power demand meets the long, speculative road to commercial fusion.
Five equity funds and two bond funds that own nearly the entire investable market — the tickers, the weights and the true cost.
Why an Australian dividend is worth more than the cheque suggests, and how the refund works at each marginal rate.
The Australian scorecard, over one, five and ten years — and the small number of cases where picking still makes sense.
Holdings, cost base, dividends and franking in one sheet — built for an Australian tax return, not a US one.
Who legally owns your shares under each model, what happens if the broker fails, and why the cheapest option isn't always the cheap one.
Broker model, whose name the holding sits in, and whether you buy personally, through a trust or inside super. Changing it later is a capital gains event.
A handful of broad index funds gets you the whole market for a fraction of a per cent. Everything past that has to earn its fee.
Franking credits, the CGT discount at twelve months, and how dividends land on your return. The after-tax number is the only one that counts.