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Calculating Capital Gains

What is the price I should use to calculate capital gains if I were to sell Domain Holdings? I received shares as part the split from Fairfax.

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Ooh! Media and APN Outdoor – Buy, Hold or Sell?

Just over a year you published an article in the Switzer report where Charlie Aitken recommended outdoor advertising stocks that he felt had a lot of potential: Ooh! Media and APN Outdoor. Not long after this article was published, the two companies announced a merger, and you published another article highly recommending these shares. In the meantime, the prices of both had risen. The merger was subsequently not approved by the ACCC and the share prices fell. Since then the shares of both stocks have not moved much, although Ooh! Media is now just above my buy-in price, but APN is nowhere near it. Also, since then you The Switzer Report has not mentioned either company in any of your articles.

My question is: what is your view on these shares now? Would you be a buyer/holder or seller now?

 


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Impact of Growing Debt on Share Market

Given the personal debt, business debt and government debt, what is the long term impact of such a growing debt on our optimism regarding the share market?

In other words, given the size of the Australian economy (GDP), is this debt 150% to 200% of GDP, sustainable?

When there is  downturn, will Australia be more severely impacted because of this relatively high debt level compared to other countries?

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Impact of Growing Debt on Share market

Given the personal debt, business debt and government debt, what is the long term impact of such a growing debt on our optimism regarding the share market?

In other words, given the size of the Australian economy (GDP), is this debt 150% to 200% of GDP, sustainable?

When there is  downturn, will Australia be more severely impacted because of this relatively high debt level compared to other countries?

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Reviewing SMSF Portfolios

I have a SMSF (corporate structure) my wife and I are the trustees. The fund was set up and is audited annually by esuper which I have found to be a great organisation. The fund has a substantial share portfolio of about $1.8m, corporate bonds and cash. If my wife outlives me I am sure she can carry on running the fund with the exception of the share portfolio.

Are there any organisations who could say review the portfolio annually and advise if an SPP or Rights Offer occurred during the year?

 


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Alternatives to fixed term cash deposits

Can you suggest any “relatively” safe alternatives to fixed term cash for our SMSF fund which we keep out of shares in term deposits as “ballast” in case the markets crash or substantially correct. The interest rates currently on offer mean that our money is losing value by having it cash but with a pretty large share portfolio already we are reluctant to keep piling into overheated markets.


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