Successful investing goes beyond making smart decisions; it requires avoiding mistakes and adopting a mindset of longevity and endurance. While taking risks and investing optimistically are important for building wealth, keeping your wealth also demands a mix of...
Investment Philosophy
Special Situation Investing
In this week's article, we will explore a distinctive investment approach that has the potential to serve as a viable pathway for maintaining overall portfolio returns, regardless of the broader market conditions... This approach is known as special situation...
From Boom to Bust: U.S. Bank Failures and Who’s to Blame
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
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
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?
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
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
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...
Is Now Finally the Time to Buy Bonds?
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
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?
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...
A fictitious memo on SVB from the Fed – Wishful Thinking
A fictitious memo on SVB from the Fed - Wishful Thinking 16/3/2023 In light of the forced closure of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, I thought I would respond to your memo dated March 2021 referenced here....











