Common Investing Mistakes Are More Common Than You Think 15/6/2023 There is an old saying on Wall Street that “financial markets are driven by just two powerful emotions: Greed and Fear.” Investors often let their emotions dictate their decisions on when to buy, hold...
Stronger for Longer and a Bond Opportunity 8/6/2023 After a forgettable 2022, equity and bond markets have had a more favourable beginning to 2023 as the economy has remained strong and inflation appears to be easing. In the United States, the world’s largest...
3 Competing Views in Economics: A Perspective for Informed Decision-Making 25/5/2023 Economics, as a complex and dynamic field, is often a subject of debates and diverse opinions regarding the future state of the global economy. Presently, three dominant views command...
Raise the Debt Ceiling (Again) 1/6/2023 As the 1 June deadline set by US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen looms, a deal that prevents the U.S. from defaulting on its debt seems inevitable. President Joe Biden appears set to follow in the footsteps of his predecessors,...
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...
Optimism is Simple, Not Easy 4/5/2023 Following a promising beginning to 2023, it seems that gloomier news headlines have resurfaced, vying for your attention... As of writing, the ASX200 has pulled back just over 2% in less than 24 hours, Oil prices have retreated...
Riding the Waves of a Recession: What You Need to Know to Weather the Storm 20/4/2023 There’s been a lot of coverage in both the financial and mainstream media about the possibility of a recession later in 2023 and into 2024. Interest rates have been rising (at the...
Dividends: Fat and Fully Franked, or Folly? 13/4/2023 Dividend investing is as Australian as Vegemite, Tim Tams,…or maybe pavlova? The ASX has a higher dividend yield than most other share markets around the world, in large part due to the dividend imputation system...
Why It Pays to be a Long Term Investor 27/4/2023 Every year, index fund provider Vanguard makes a chart available that shows the returns of various asset classes over the past 30 years: shares (Australian, international and U.S.), bonds, Australian-listed property,...
Robert Swift, Portfolio Manager Tamim Global High Conviction Fund, on the Australian Investors Podcast 6/4/2023 We are thrilled to have Robert Swift, the portfolio manager of the Global High Conviction Fund chat with Australian Shareholders' Association & Rask...
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...
Growth Investing: Is now the time to be a contrarian? 23/3/2023 Not everyone is cut out for contrarian investing. Typically, purchasing shares in an index hugging ETF is a simpler option than formulating a distinctive investing strategy that capitalises by going...
