We have always said that it is important to take time and revisit the basics every now and then. Living and breathing the markets day in, day out can let us lose sight of these basics, not seeing the forest for the trees if you will. It is often the simplest things...
Market Insight
2019 A Surprisingly Good Year for Risk Assets: 2020 Outlook
Robert Swift takes a brief look at the year that was 2019 and casts his eye toward 2020. What should we expect to see and where might we find risk appropriate returns? Equity returns were strong in 2019 with major markets rising between 25 - 30% in US$ terms....
5 Predictions For 2020
For the first newsletter of 2020 we put forward five key predictions for the calendar year ahead. Each of these will definitely impact the investing world and will have an effect on the Australian economy either directly or indirectly. It is always worth considering...
Two Steps Forward, One Back in Japan
Kevin Smith, of Delft Partners and portfolio manager of the TAMIM Asia Small Companies Fund, addresses Japan in the wake of some of the negative news associated with the market. Japan forms an integral part of both the Asia Small Companies and Global High Conviction...
It’s Huawei or the Highway: Empire Building Chinese Style
We've been hearing more and more about it in the media, it's time to take a closer look. Huawei's meteoric rise globally is coming to a head as the US/China Trade Kerfuffle drags on and we thought it was time to take a closer look at what they are trying to do. Have...
Market Musings: Does the Bond market make sense? Or is there something else at work…
Heading into the end of the financial year, one of the more interesting phenomena for us has been the upward correlations in both bonds and equities. Bond markets have been predicting a downturn in economic conditions while equities, especially given the performance...
Japan: Is Now the Time to Invest?
Japan: Is Now the Time to Invest? 21/9/2023 Japan went through an historic boom that peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Asset prices rose at an incredible pace, with the price of land absolutely rampant, increasing by as much as 5,000 per cent between 1956 and...
Looking inside the Australian GDP number and what the implications are for your share portfolio
This week Guy Carson takes a look at the Australian GDP figure and digs in to how it impacts the everyday share portfolio. Last week the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) released the GDP data for the September quarter. The headline result saw an economy that grew...
Evidente – The RBA Rings the Bell
This week we bring to you a piece by friend of TAMIM Sam Ferraro of independent financial education firm Evidente. This article was originally penned on October 13, 2017. The RBA's biannual Financial Stability Review (FSR) has become essential reading since the...
Royal Commission into Banks
This week Robert Swift digs into the recently announced Royal Commission. Today the Australian government announced there would be a Royal Commission established to investigate the banking industry. This was done on receipt, by Treasury, of a letter from ‘the big 4’...
Evidente – Bernanke points to a new dawn
This week we bring to you a piece by friend of TAMIM Sam Ferraro of independent financial education firm Evidente. This article was originally penned on October 16, 2017. In a recent research paper, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, Mr Ben Bernanke, proposes price...
A market of misunderstood problems and opportunities
This week Robert Swift takes a look at one of his favourite subjects of the last twelve months, - the land of the rising sun - and delves into a market of misunderstood problems and opportunities. We have argued for a while that Japan has not ‘suffered from’...