While markets and investors are often captivated by sectors promising rapid growth and technological advancements, there are times when strategic investments in more stable sectors can offer "defence" against economic downturns. One such sector is Defence, where...
Sometimes the macroeconomic outlook changes like the weather, and investors find themselves sailing in a crosswind of uncertainty. The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is ensnared in a catch-22 dilemma: whether to raise rates to tame inflation and risk plunging the...
The Financial Times (FT) recently reported that for the first time, the S&P 500, corporate investment-grade bonds and treasury bills are all offering the same yield of 5.3% for prospective investors. The leading financial newspaper provided a useful graphic...
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...
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...
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 age-old investing wisdom was always to maintain a portfolio consisting of 60% equities and 40% bonds (commonly referred to as the “60/40 portfolio”). Bonds have been out of favour since the Global Financial Crisis though, as TINA (“there is no alternative”) took...
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...
