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.

Nucleus Wealth and Arrow Financial Advice today announced a partnership through which Arrow will use Nucleus Wealth’s white label digital advice platform, Nucleus Wealth Fusion, to cost-effectively service the low balance market, and build relationships with clients from the very beginning of their ...

The digital games and interactive media sector is probably much larger than you think and still growing. To put it into perspective, one of the highest rating movies ever, Avengers: Endgame, grossed US$858m during its opening weekend. Grand Theft Auto V's release, earned US$1b in just over three ...

Over a year ago I made some comment on breaking news that the wealth arm, Dixon Advisory within listed wealth giant Evans Dixon had been publicly called to task on recommendations for clients to invest in several of their in-house investment products that had performed poorly. One particularly ...

Markets took a tumble last night, is this the start of the end? It could well be. Markets certainly looked like they were in the final stages of a blow-off top over the last week or two with fewer and fewer stocks driving the gains and technical issues in options markets driving stocks higher. ...

Investment markets are in the eye of the storm. The initial storm danger came as COVID-19 hit, decimating jobs and smashing demand. Governments and central banks ably stepped up to stem the damage, and investment markets calmed. But insolvencies and bankruptcies have only been delayed, not avoided ...

Australian energy policy is a mess. Investors should ignore the arguments. The antagonists are stuck in a perpetual time shift, prosecuting cases from 5-10 years ago, ignorant of the incoming change in solar economics.

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: