Many of you will have seen Trump's announcement essentially trying to prevent pension funds from considering ethical issues for investing. To quote The Australian:
We are in a strange political environment. Globally there have been trillions of dollars of government stimulus announced, deficit hawks have turned chicken, and formerly staunch opponents of government intervention have been leading the charge. How should investors assess each government stimulus ...
Diversity issues have exploded into the global zeitgeist over the past few months as Black Lives Matter protests have rocked cities around the world. From an investment perspective, diversity is an interesting concept. There have been a lot of studies into the diversity of gender and race on ...
Stock markets have disconnected from fundamentals (and reality). The economic fundamentals are almost as bad as they have ever been. Stock market valuations are as expensive as they have ever been. But that hasn’t concerned markets.
Stock markets are almost as expensive as they have ever been on a range of different measures. The economy is almost as bad as it has ever been on a range of different measures. Take note of the analysts who are contorting themselves trying to reconcile the two and telling you to keep buying. These ...
There is a decent argument that stock markets have condensed an entire three-year cycle into three months. While there are other factors at play, robotic trading is accelerating both the speed and magnitude of stock market movements. I'm not expecting robots to go away, and how investors look at ...
Stock markets have dislocated from fundamentals. The economic fundamentals are almost as bad as they have ever been. Stock market valuations are almost as expensive as they have ever been. But that hasn't concerned markets for the past six weeks and, to be frank, it doesn't look like concerning ...
For so long now society's loved ones have been dying in custody from systemic racism, dying at home because of domestic violence, suffering abuse and discrimination as they live their daily lives because of their nationality, gender, race or sexual orientation.
There are three main factors we look at when putting together an investment portfolio in the age of COVID-19. Which sectors/types of companies to own, how many shares and what kind of defensive assets to hold based on the answer to the first two questions.
What's our medium to long-term outlook on Australian banks?
Chant West finally released its returns for superannuation funds for last month. Our growth fund smashed the median fund by 9.4% in March, courtesy of our aggressive move out of shares at the end of January. Our other funds also considerably outperformed their benchmarks.
One of our most frequent investor questions is around our government bond holdings and the unique risks that low-interest rates present.
There is sometimes confusion about the returns available on property in a self-managed super fund (SMSF) – especially as the mathematics starts to get confusing with relative rates of return, real vs nominal and opportunity cost vs risk, before tax and after tax returns. If you'd like to see how an ...
A lot of people think a model and a forecast are the same thing. They aren't. They are very different and knowing when you can forecast, and when you can only model is a critical investing skill. Coronavirus forecasting is a testament to the difference - many elements can be modelled, very few can ...
