From Boom to Bust: U.S. Bank Failures and Who’s to Blame 10/5/2023 Who is Signature Bank? Silicon Valley Bank? First Republic Bank? Likely these are banks you’d never previously heard of prior to the past few months, and they’re now making headline news... Unlike...
The World Doesn’t Often End 23/3/2023 The world we live in today moves at lightning speed. Information is available to us at our fingertips, and news travels faster than ever before. In the realm of finance and investing, this can lead to investors panicking and...
A Bear Market Rally, or Blue Skies Ahead? 23/2/2023 The S&P 500 lost almost 20% in 2022 — the worst year since 2008 amid multi-decade high inflation, rising interest rates, and fading economic growth. However, US markets have bounced back in recent months with...
Year in Review: 2022 22/12/2022 With our final newsletter of the year, we wanted to recap the major events that moved markets and highlight some investor takeaways. Upon reflection, 2022 was a year of inflection. Australia emerged from two years of intermittent...
Is the Fair Work Legislation fair? 30/11/2022 Maybe, but one thing is for sure, it is likely to be expensive as well. This week we look at the 'Fair Work Legislation Amendment (Secure Jobs, Better Pay) Bill 2022, a Bill that once passed, will represent one of the most...
China's COVID policy: What does this mean for markets? 24/11/2022 This week we look at China and try to grapple with the zero Covid policy and what that means for markets. A story that remains especially important as China is central to our economic fortunes and the...
This week we look at a new government in Canberra and what, if any, are the implications for markets? Before proceeding into what is intrinsically a divisive topic, we’ll start with the conclusion, the answer is the implications are negligible. Some context As market...
Webinar Excerpt: Industrial Oil Gas and Re-industrialisation with Robert Swift 24/1/2024 Reindustrialisation, energy and technology security is at the forefront of US policy with a big push to promote domestic production through subsidies. Which companies stand to...
