It’s a common investing belief that higher interest rates are a negative for stocks. As the world’s most famous investor Warren Buffett creatively described at the Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK.B) 2013 annual general meeting, “Interest rates are to asset prices, you...
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Top 3 International Shares for 2024
Global equity markets finished the year on a tear as investors gained confidence that inflation had abated and interest rate hikes were in the rear vision mirror. There was a clear bifurcation however, with the bounce led by a small number of suspects (we’re looking...
Japan: Is Now the Time to Invest?
Japan went through an historic boom that peaked in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Asset prices rose at an incredible pace, with the price of land absolutely rampant, increasing by as much as 5,000 per cent between 1956 and 1986. So distorted were land prices that...
UBS: One of the Best Deals in History
UBS: One of the Best Deals in History 14/9/2023 One of the biggest fallouts from the banking crisis earlier this year was the merger between Swiss banking giants UBS (SWX: UBSG) and Credit Suisse. Following heavy pressure from authorities worried that Credit...
NVIDIA Delivers Blowout Earnings – Is it Enough?
NVIDIA Delivers Blowout Earnings – Is it Enough? 31/8/2023 The anticipation was beyond high going into NVIDIA’s 2Q 2023 earnings result last week. Artificial Intelligence, or AI, has been the phrase on everyone’s lips in the investment community since the...
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...
Forget FAANGs, It’s Time to QUAKE
Over the past few years investors that owned the much-coveted “FAANG” stocks would have been amongst the most popular people in the room. Fast forward to today and the NASDAQ is down -26% YTD; Facebook, now known as Meta Platforms (FB.NASDAQ), alone is down over -40%...
Needs Not Wants?
Robert Swift takes some time to look at portfolio allocation in the context of the current global climate; now focussing on investing in the 'needs' and not 'wants'. Most risk assets have had a decent fall this year. Long overdue and somewhat predictable perhaps but,...
Equities As an Inflation Hedge? Choose Wisely Though
Robert Swift takes a look at the current situation around inflation and looks at how we can invest to maintain our spending power in real terms. A must read for those now receiving next to nothing for their bonds and fixed income. Inflation is here. It really never...