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Money Weekly with Peter Switzer

Stairway to heaven
It's at times of financial fear and loathing that it is ideal to make suggestions to people that there could be a better way to build their wealth. I call this the Anatomy of a Great Wealth Building P...

The young and the restless
How many times have you heard people say: "I wished someone had told me that when I was young?" Well, here is what all young people and for that matter, most people, who feel uncomfortable about not b...

Show me the money
With banks throwing around 8% plus bank deposits and the stock market hovering at 15% this year, it is time to become an expert on interest paying investments. I know it's a boring kind of investment,...

Switzer's rich guide
Given the fact I believe we're around the bottom of the stock market rout - give or take a couple of hundreds points on the S&P/ASX 200 - I reckon it's time to remind wealth builders what they should ...

Fighting fire with fire
The Daily Telegraph went hard last Saturday on the value of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor, Glenn Stevens, asking if the nation's top money man was the most useless man in the country? O...

Damage control
What are the most beautiful words in the English language for anyone with a variable rate home loan? That's simple and they're even more enjoyable to hear when an interest rate expert utters them.Thos...

Turn the beat around
There was great news on the stock market front with overall share prices up 3.7% on 26 March. This came after two big days on Wall Street following the US central bank's rescue of Bear Stearns. So, ha...

What will happen to interest rates?
The Dow Jones piled on over 400 points following the Federal Reserve and other central banks riding to the rescue of credit crunched money and stock markets. But locally some doubt was expressed about...

When the going gets tough
Another hard day at the office for home loan borrowers with the Reserve Bank raising the cash rate for the twelfth time in this cycle, taking the official rate to 7.25%. So, what should homeowners and...

How the mighty fall
The Eddy Groves and ABC Learning Centres' story is a massive wake up call for novice and seasoned players of the stock market. Debt to equity ratios are really important when the 'you know what' hits ...

Company of experts
It's times like these when share prices are sliding and interest rates are rising and expected to hit into house prices as well as sales, that I like to remind people of another way to make money. And...

What the doctor ordered
With 11 interest rate rises heaped on Aussie home loan borrowers since the rate rising cycle has begun, it is reasonable to suspect that many of us are suffering a bit of stress. What follows is a vir...

That sinking feeling
What was the Reserve Bank Governor, Glenn Stevens, thinking of when he and his board supported another interest rate rise, taking the official cash rate of interest to 7%? It's not about killing home ...

The ten commandments
With markets spooking many of us nowadays, the right question to ask yourself is: am I doing everything absolutely right? Advice - good advice - is so crucial to your bottom line. A guy I came across ...

Meltdown mode
A 24% slide in shares - wiping off the value of the gain of last financial year - is enough to worry you into the poor house, but in all reality, this is typical media hype. Sorry, but at times I have...

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