Nucleus Research and Insights

A side effect of Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been the jump in oil and gas prices. The result is basically a global Putin carbon tax. Albeit with the proceeds going to Russia and OPEC rather than to national governments. When you add the re-realisation of commodity supply chain instability, ...

In this investment podcast, Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen, Economist and Author Professor Steve Keen, Leith van Onselen, the Chief Economist at Nucleus Wealth and Senior Financial Adviser Samuel Kerr explore whether the housing market has peaked in Australia. On the agenda, Interest rates ...

In this investment podcast, Chief Strategist David Llewellyn-Smith, Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Adviser Sam Kerr take another look at the commodities price boom in the face of the Ukrainian invasion. Agenda: Latest situation Anatomy of a blow-off Effective ...

In this episode of Nucleus Wealth Empower, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Operating Officer Shelley George is joined by Nucleus Wealth client Philip D'Souza to help you traverse the path self-direct versus professional investment manager debate. Empowering you to develop money and investing as tools for ...

The western world has not engaged in war with Russia in a traditional sense yet, but it is waging financial war through economic sanctions and the divestment of Russian securities. Nucleus Wealth wants to reassure you that we do not hold any Russian investments across any of our portfolios. It is ...

In today's investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Adviser Sam Kerr discuss the investment fallout from the recent invasion of Ukraine by Russia. Agenda: Latest situation Risks: Financial crisis / Recession / Supply chain risks Retaliatory ...

Not every investment has an equal distribution of upside and downside. Humans, as a rule, tend to deal with asymmetric risk badly. Lotteries are a good example: a very low probability of a big gain is hard to calculate. So hard that governments regulate lotteries heavily. They understand how bad ...

In today's investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Economist Leith Van Onselen, Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Adviser Sam Kerr are joined by Salvatore Babones to discuss his brand new book "Australia's universities: can they reform?" Agenda: Are Australian ...

In today's investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Economist Leith Van Onselen, Chief Investment Officer Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Adviser Sam Kerr discuss Australia's record breaking labour market and dissect the latest employment data that's hot of the presses today Topics ...

Chinese inflation indexes were weak again yesterday. Consumer price inflation has been weak for more than a year now. Yesterday merely confirmed December's downtrend.

In today's investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Strategist David Llewellyn-Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Adviser Sam Kerr investigate if the Inventory Super-cycle is finally ending Topics on the agenda today: PMIs A typical inventory cycle Today’s inventory / ...

In today's investment webinar (LIVE 12:30pm AEDT), Nucleus Wealth's Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Adviser Sam Kerr detail if the Market Meltdown will continue Topics on the agenda today: Bull case for markets Supply chain Wage Growth China Earnings Valuation View the ...

In today's investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Strategist David Llewellyn-Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Advisor Sam Kerr pull apart the Chinese property market's crash landing Agenda: After 30 years of boom, the Chinese property development market is going ...

December saw a strong performance from all of our tactical portfolios. Our Growth portfolio rose 2%, Accumulation rose 1.2% and Income rose 0.7% as bond markets recovered their losses from the prior months. Stock markets remained strong, our international fund rose 4% over the month, significantly ...