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He was offered $1m to go with his $500k, a total of $1.5 M to invest but he thought 50/50 would be safer :( In 2007 CFDs were 90% lend on blue chips, BHP, CBA etc, that was blood bath for some, bad when you are 30, awful when you are 60 years old.

I know a guy well who had $500k, he margined at 50%, very low risk, in 2008/9 he lost his $500k when the market halved in value. He had no back up money and is now back working full time :(

Lidl are "actively looking" for sites, quoting an internationally recognised retail marketing guru heard on the radio about a month ago.

There are more Aldi clones coming, I think it is Lidl that is almost ready to act and others are actively looking at OZ. The highest grocery margins in the world means more will come in the future. From memory, the average worldwide margin is 16%, WW and Coles are over 25% so every grocer...

My point was simply that if you buy a derivative or invest in a fund it is possible that you may end up with nothing because most of these things are leveraged and as such can be wiped out in a market crash. If you own shares directly a company may go broke but with diversification in stocks...

Are these products only as good as the company that issues them ? Could redemptions be frozen in the event of a market plunge ( like Commonwealth Bank funds after GFC) and what if the issuer goes broke ?