Introduction: A Timely Reminder from Howard Marks As Treasurer Jim Chalmers seeks to modernise the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) with one of the most substantial reforms in decades, Howard Marks’ latest memo serves as a reminder of the dangers of interventionist...
As investors, staying informed about economic indicators is crucial to making sound investment decisions. The Consumer Price Index (CPI) is one such indicator, providing insights into the inflationary trends within the economy. Today, the Australian Bureau of...
On 22 February 2024, Japan’s Nikkei 225 closed at ¥39,098.68, eclipsing the previous record high set in December 1989–a staggering 34 years ago. As we highlighted in a prior article, Japan went through a truly extraordinary boom in asset prices through the 1980s that...
As we highlighted in our prior market insight, 2024 is set to be a historic year for elections, with more than 2 billion of the world’s population across 50 countries set to head to the polls. The most widely publicised is undoubtedly the United States, where...
From Doom to Boom: The Story of 2023’s Economic Surprises 23/11/2023 As we highlighted in last week’s article “The Power of Positive Thinking,” 2023 began with many dire predictions about the economy and asset prices. So far, these forecasts have not borne fruit, with...
What is a recession and what does it mean for investors? 6/7/2023 Fearing a recession is natural. Recessions are an economic reality. They typically start before anyone realises they’re happening and end before economists have enough data to know they’ve finished....
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...
Year in Review: 2022 22/12/2022 With our final newsletter of the year, we wanted to recap the major events that moved markets and highlight some investor takeaways. Upon reflection, 2022 was a year of inflection. Australia emerged from two years of intermittent...
This week we visit a topic that has been all the rage in 2022. Inflation. A word we perhaps hadn’t heard of in a couple of decades but has saturated every headline this year. As we write the ASX has given back around 14% from its peak in 2021 and the ASX Small...
