During March, all of our portfolios outperformed their benchmarks, bolstered by our defensive and underweight bank stock exposures. Quality and growth stocks boomed, banks fell. The ASX fell slightly but our Australian portfolio rose 1.6% and our international rose 5%. Bonds rose around 3.5%.

Can Doing Less Help You Achieve More? Or Will Following The Herd Lead You Astray? In this episode of Nucleus Wealth Empower, Shelley George, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Operating Officer and Damien Klassen, Chief Investment Officer, addressed this incongruous issue. Empowering you to develop money and ...

Every day there are new applications for Artificial Intelligence (AI), and a Cambrian explosion of ideas are steaming through work places right now. In this week's webinar, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen and Senior Financial Adviser, Samuel Kerr analyse the sectors that ...

A transition to retirement pension (sometimes referred to as TTR) allows you to transfer part of your superannuation funds into a transition to retirement account and draw a tax-free income if you have met your preservation age or are over 60 and under 65.

This week we discuss a number of myths around the rise of India. Most importantly, there is a common misconception that as China goes into decline, India will rise to take its place and Australian exports will continue to grow. We do not believe this is broadly the case (although there are some ...

Recently in Washington, Joe Biden exercised his presidential veto powers for the first time on a bill that would have banned federal pension fund managers from considering ESG issues for investment and shareholder rights decisions. The Republicans want to stop what they’re calling ‘woke¹ liberal’ ...

It feels like stock markets are standing at the top of a very slippery slope. No guarantees that stock markets will fall, but the risks are certainly elevated. We are back with banks again this week. We won't give too much away in this intro, partly because things are moving fast enough that it ...

This is a repost of an article that we wrote for Morningstar Firstlinks.

It feels like stock markets are standing at the top of a very slippery slope. No guarantees that stock markets will fall, but the risks are certainly elevated. The unfolding banking crisis has several curious factors.

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