We’ve been getting a lot of subscriber interest lately about international shares. With the Australian economy looking a little depressed of late, it’s no surprise that are investors are looking at the performance of global markets like the US.
An allocation to international shares is a responsible investment for a self managed superannuation fund and we provide regular updates on how you should and can do it, like this story last January.
James Dunn also wrote about it earlier this year.
We cover the big international share news – like the IPO of Facebook – and try and help you invest in these big ideas. Back in February 2012, Paul Rickard explained that although it might be difficult to get into the IPO of Mark Zuckerberg’s baby, you could always buy it after.
And if you had bought it then, you certainly would be pretty happy today as you can see from its share price chart below.
Source: Yahoo!7 Finance
Earlier this year Peter also gave you some ideas of how to buy Europe and we’re always answering your reader questions about the best way to do this.
One little whisper Peter heard quite loudly was on his show last week when S.T. Wong from Prime Value and Ben Griffiths from Eley Griffiths followed each other and both liked APN Outdoor. This came on the same day that Peter bumped into Pierce Cody who started Cody Outdoor, which was bought by APN and then was sold to the private equity group Quadrant. Cody is back into the Outdoor space with Cody Live — a private company — and he said to Peter when he bumped into him in Double Bay that the digital sign boards are doing really well. In fact he was surprised that vandals aren’t tampering with them and was thinking about downgrading his insurance! By the way both S.T. and Ben pointed to the positive impact of digitization on outdoor advertising. These, excuse the pun, look like positive signs!
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