Nucleus Research and Insights

September has historically been the worst month for the stock market, and this year was no exception with global equities producing their first monthly negative return since bottoming in March. In Australia, rising concerns about the deteriorating trade relationship with China, Victoria’s ...

I have a working theory that the September quarter earnings (Q3) coming out over the next few weeks are going to give excellent insight to the new normal.

We are proud to announce that Nucleus Wealth has again been named a finalist in the upcoming 2020 ifa Excellence Awards in the "Innovator of the Year - Company" category.

I wanted to talk about the Australian budget. I'm not seeing what the admirers are seeing. At first, I was worried that I'd missed something. But yesterday's dovish speech by Governor Lowe suggests the Reserve Bank are seeing exactly the same thing I am.

Topics covered: • prof. Keen's recent work on the appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change, in which he contends numerous errors have been made in calculating the economic effects of climate change. Correcting for these errors makes it feasible that the economic damages from climate ...

Your annual superannuation statement should have arrived recently, or be on its way any day now. We know that for many it can be a chore to manage your superannuation, but small changes now, can result in a big difference when you retire. Take 5 minutes to engage with your future financial ...

With Frydenberg's recent announcement of Australia's Budget, we thought it prudent to schedule a special episode of the investment webinar today, in which Nucleus Wealth's Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of ...

Note: This is the first instalment of our performance report looking at our Australian and International direct share portfolios which are fully invested in shares. The second instalment is the asset allocation performance report that will come out after the returns for comparable funds become ...

After 5 years of falling RBA rates and the fact that income needs are rising against falling “safe” investment returns, what can clients do? Growth was good before March this year, but what now? Is it a short term hit to growth or something more sustained and how can this be used to provide income ...

Markets move in cycles. The last 40 years have seen interest rates down from 20% to less than 1%, quietly fuelling a rise in bond returns over the same time. This has driven the return of the benchmark 60/40 portfolio (60% stocks and 40% government bonds).

Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen was featured in a webinar posted earlier this week with Martin North of Digital Finance Analytics that appeared on the DFA YouTube channel, in a presentation covering Nucleus Wealth's views on much lower mortgage rates ahead, and the implications ...

Our attention turns locally this week, as the country begins take stock of the coronavirus impacts and look to the future for drivers of Australia’s favourite asset class, property. As news breaks that lending standards are being relaxed and the Reserve Bank of Australia continues to pump freshly ...

Before COVID-19 hit, Nucleus Wealth launched a property calculator to help investors or potential homeowners determine the returns on Australian property. The idea I wanted to illustrate is that house prices are very sensitive to interest rates. So, with interest rates so low, property was going to ...

Nobel prize winner Harry Markowitz gets the credit for coining the phrase that "diversification is the only free lunch in finance". Add the insight that stock markets are at least semi-efficient, and a multi-trillion dollar exchange-traded fund (ETF) industry was born.

The 2008 financial crisis was, at least in part, due to a fundamental flaw in the pricing of Credit Default Swaps on housing lending. Analysts who justify the current rise in markets on falling interest rates are making a similar error.