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...
Market Insight
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’...
It’s not all about the stocks: how we manage risk
Guy Carson, manager of the TAMIM Australian All Cap Value portfolio, has had an excellent year to date. This success has come from not only picking good stocks but also from managing the portfolio risk when he occasionally picks the wrong stock. This week, to...
SPECIAL: Presidential Reactions
In the wake of the US Election result yesterday, we at TAMIM have asked a couple of the managers we partner with to give us a few quick reactions and thoughts on where they see opportunity now that President Donald J Trump is a reality. In the wake of the US Election...
Value Investing – An Australian Perspective: Part II – September 2017
This week we present a piece by Hamish Carlisle, analyst with the TAMIM Australian Equity Income IMA powered by Merlon Capital Partners, as they follow up a previous piece on the merits of value investing. While the long term returns from “value investing” are strong...
Chinese Property Market – One to watch out for…
This week Robert Swift takes a look at the Chinese property market and the effect it will have on Australia and the World. We have written on the China “marvel” before and continue to scratch our head on this enigma and the sustainability of it. You have to give them...
Will REITs be the epicentre of the next crisis?
This week Guy Carson takes a look at REITs and their potential role as the source of crisis in the Australian economy. A version of this article was published in The Australian on 21 October 2017. Back in 2007, the wheels began to fall off the global equity market...
Creative Accounting and non-payment of tax as a source of risk – the importance of fundamental oversight
This week Robert Swift and Roger McIntosh, of the TAMIM Global Equity High Conviction IMA, take a look at the tricky subject of creative accounting and how it must be factored into your stock analysis. Quantitative stock selection models such as our VMQ assessment,...
Telstra Revisited
This week we present a piece by Hamish Carlisle, analyst with the TAMIM Australian Equity Income IMA powered by Merlon Capital Partners, as they review their analysis of Telstra. When Merlon was established in 2010 and we first formally reviewed Telstra, the stock was...