Posts Tagged ‘investment’

What is Gearing? Learn about borrowing to invest

Gearing is the strategy of borrowing money to invest.

Gearing is the strategy of borrowing money to invest. Just as you take out a loan to buy a home, you can also borrow money to invest in other assets, such as shares, property or managed funds.

Gearing enables you to boost your investment earning power by increasing the amount of money you have available to invest. While investing with someone else’s money sounds like a great strategy (and it can be), there are risks involved, so it’s not suitable for everyone.

Prestige Wealth Partners makes gearing strategies easy to understand and easy to implement.

InScope May-June 2010: The China Story

The recently announced Federal Budget for 2010-11, which aims to have the deficit wiped out within three years, is in part based on assumptions that the China led mining boom will continue to benefit Australia for the foreseeable future. In this edition of InScope from Financial Wisdom, we will look at how Australia’s trade links [...]