Australian investors are in a bind. The Aussie market is in no-man’s-land. It’s a long way from the high and the low. It’s stuck in the middle.

It’s important to remember why you invest in the first place – to build wealth.The best way to build your wealth, is by investing in innovative business’s…

If you want to build wealth you need to invest in businesses. That’s true whether you want to be a billionaire or just a ‘plain old’ millionaire.

Behavioural investing, points out two recent discoveries that are relevant to all investors. We are hard-wired to think short-term, not long-term.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned about investing, it’s that to be a successful investor you’ve got to be flexible. You need to adapt to change.

Blueseed is the first commercial sea steading venture. It would bring in the world’s top entrepreneurs closer to Silicon Valley.

Investors should be picky about the information they consume. A key psychological threat every investor should be aware of is confirmation bias.

If you believe in the Investing 101 lesson of ‘buy low, sell high’, this could be the best time in five years to get your hands on hard assets (or liquid).

I’m going to tell you what really happened and why. There are three fundamental things going on — all of which are completely transparent to most investors.

I believe governments’ actions around the developed world have perpetuated this lack of feeling safe, inhibiting investors from moving up Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.

Guess what? 3-D Printing is possible and now becoming affordable. It has the potential to change the ways of global manufacturing forever.

We all know that we should invest for the long term. Short-term punts, ducking in and out of stocks in reaction to headlines, and trading too much, is a recipe for losing money.

Investing without making predictions about the future is like driving with a blindfold…you wouldn’t do that, so why invest without thinking about the future?

As far as stock investing is concerned the only two things you need to look for…the two things that move markets…are interest rates and earnings.

Don’t be fooled into thinking that Warren Buffett’s swoop on Heinz means you should be piling into consumer goods shares at current prices. This deal is much more about clever financial engineering than any sort of great equity growth story.

A year isn’t supposed to be that long in investing. But news sure moves fast.

It’s either the best time in the past year to buy stocks…or the worst. If you take a straw poll of my colleagues you’ll probably get half screaming it’s a buy, and the other half screaming it’s a sell. When you buy any investment you should always have two questions in mind…

When we see stocks rally hard and fast, we start looking around for ideas for you to protect the gains you’ve built in recent months. With the main Australian stock index up 15.5% since last August, it now makes sense to look at ‘stock insurance’.

In share trading, remaining stubborn in your view is a death wish because the stock market can do anything. As the old saying goes, ‘Both bulls and bears can make money in the markets but pigs get slaughtered.’

The good news for uranium investors is that we may be reaching the end of this downward cycle. I expect the spot uranium price could well rise to the $70 range within the next 12-18 months. Here’s why…

Do you like the idea of a trading system that doesn’t involving you staring at the markets every day? Andrew Craig swears he can beat most markets by using a simple tool called the relative strength index – the RSI.

Scalable businesses can makegood investments during tough economic times. Their success depends less on the wider economy than for unscaleable companies.

Investors – as a group – are awful at timing the stock market. They buy just as the market is about to tumble. They watch it drop all the way. When they can bear the pain of loss no longer, they bail out. Then it recovers.