Author: Les Coleman

I am not geeky enough to read financial statements for entertainment, but it can be instructive because they are what company management wants the world to hear. This article listens to Tesla Inc, which is the world’s eighth largest company by market capitalisation and whose CEO is the world’s richest person.  To set the scene, […]

You worked hard for your superannuation. How safe is it? In recent months, cybercrises have revealed the fragility of IT systems at Medibank, Optus and other large firms. Their exposures should sound alarms about reliability of IT-dependent companies, including the funds, banks, and agents that manage our superannuation balances. Cybercrime is looming ever larger as […]

With a new financial year comes updates of economic forecasts. The Conversation, for instance, has just polled 27 forecasters for their GDP outlook for the next year: on average, they expect anaemic growth in real GDP of 1.5 percent, while half think there is at least a 50 percent chance Australia will go into recession. […]