Recent weeks have highlighted the rather uncomfortable and somewhat frosty relationship between our nation and our largest trading partner. Hence we thought it might be pertinent to revisit the topic, something we first elaborated upon in the infancy of the Trump...
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The Logical Next Step To Prolonging The Resources Boom?
This week we continue our exploration of the energy thematic and look at another (perhaps misunderstood) sector, nuclear, and the potential for uranium as an investment. First let me start with a disclaimer, since I am particularly passionate about this topic it might...
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....
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...
Who wins in an age of electricity powered vehicles?
Robert Swift takes a look at the electric vehicle phenomenon and takes a look at how his TAMIM individually managed account strategy is looking to take advantage of this increasingly potent thematic. Our one source of energy The ultimate discovery Electric blue for me...
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’...
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...