In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, and Chief Economist, Leith van Onselen, discussed the Reserve Bank of Australia’s interest rate cut and explore its impact on residential housing and the broader economy.

The Q4 national accounts release from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) revealed that households had suffered the largest decline in real per capita household disposable incomes on record, down around 8% from the mid-2022 peak.

Alex Joiner from IFM Investors has published the following chart showing the sharp reversal of interest rate pricing in the futures market.

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, and special guest economist Cameron Murray unpacked the downsides of superannuation as a pension supplement—and explore the broader social issues it creates.

Over the past decade, the Australian economy has recorded some of the poorest productivity growth in the world and the nation’s poorest productivity growth on record.

Australia is experiencing a housing crisis because its home prices are among the highest in the world compared to incomes, we have some of the most indebted households in the world, and tenants are paying a record share of their income on rent.

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, unpacked a range of easy-to-implement strategies—including salary sacrifice, after-tax contributions, spouse splits, recontribution tactics, and smart timing before 30 June—to help listeners retain more of their ...

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, and Chief Economist, Leith van Onselen, examined the economic impacts of Dutton vs Albanese vs a hung parliament. Did you need to position your portfolio ahead of the election?

Short squeeze on deck. The Market Ear.

This week’s CPI data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) confirmed that the post-pandemic inflation surge is firmly in the rearview mirror.