SIRA Views

December 14, 2012  /  2:09 AM
Why is the Stock Market Rising Despite All the Bad News?

Well, firstly, the news is much less bad than it was, despite the gloomy prognostications in the media (bad news and drama sell newspapers and garner viewers, but emotion makes for poor investment decisions.)

October 29, 2012  /  4:18 AM
Hybrids: What are they?

ideasFor a little over a year SIRA Group has been running an Income Portfolio designed to maximise the income and earnings to the investor whilst offering much lower volatility in the price. This portfolio invests in a variety of areas including preference shares, subordinated and/or convertible notes, corporate and government bonds and other traditional fixed income securities.

July 27, 2012  /  7:18 AM
The Big Resources Sell-Off

ideasOver recent months, commodity prices and resource company share prices have fallen. What’’s going on? Several factors are involved. Read on…

The US (22% of the world economy)

In the case of the US economy, we say ‘‘apparently slowed’’, because the weather played a significant part. Unusually mild weather across the north and

June 22, 2012  /  8:36 PM
After Greece

ideasOver the weekend, the “austerity” coalition in Greece won a majority of seats in the Greek Parliament in the second election in six weeks. However, as we have said before, the very high probability is that Greece will eventually default on its debts. Its debt equals 130% of GDP, even after previous “restructurings”.

June 15, 2012  /  4:32 AM
Admin fee not gone

Financial planning has to be one of the few service industries in the world,
if not the only one, in which clients are expected to foot their own bill for administration, and that’s not about to change…

May 17, 2012  /  8:42 PM
Greek Drama Revisited

ideasFrom the beginning of the European crisis two years ago, it has been our conviction that Greece would be unable to pay its huge debts and would ultimately have to default. That is still our belief.

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