Posts about Corruption

The Australian investment landscape is dominated by oligopolies. Many of these oligopolies are large donors to both sides of politics and seem to get an easy run when it comes to tax and regulation. Michael West runs a website that focuses on independent journalism. Part of what he does is hold ...

From an investment perspective, betting on vested interests to win the issue of the day has been an easy bet for the last few decades. While Nucleus admits this is no way to run a country, it is hard to invest for a different outcome when vested interests keep winning at the expense of the broader ...

Markets have greeted the appointment of Xi for another 5 years, (and probably for life) with dismay. Chinese housing data continues to look dire in the latest release post Xi's appointment. Messaging from the conference shows no signs of reversing on clamping down on too much property debt, which ...

The most likely reason for continued high inflation is a wage growth spiral. Sluggish wages in Australia, Japan and Canada are at odds with many other countries around the world. At the upper end, US wages are showing signs of moderating. Where to from here? Will US wages stay high or fall back to ...

In this investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, Chief Strategist David Llewellyn-Smith and Senior Financial Adviser, Samuel Kerr discussed the ongoing energy crisis in Australia. Agenda: The Great Energy Heist A potted history of Australian energy cartels ...

In this episode of Nucleus Wealth Empower, please join Shelley George, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Operating Officer and Nucleus Wealth Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen as they talk about the explosive exposé of Cameron Murray's triggering new book called RIGGED: HOW NETWORKS OF POWERFUL MATES ...

RIGGED uncovers the pattern of political favours, grey gifts and information sharing that has been allowed to build up over two decades. Drawing on extensive economic research, it exposes the Game of Mates as nothing less than cronyism on a grand scale across Australia, and how Australia has fallen ...

In this investment podcast, Nucleus Wealth Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, Financial Crime Intelligence, Nathan Lynch, and Senior Financial Adviser, Samuel Kerr, delved deep into the world of money laundering. Nathan Lynch explained how dark money has infected the lives of ordinary people ...