Nucleus Research and Insights

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, digs deeper into what Donald Trump’s renewed attacks on the Federal Reserve could mean for inflation, interest-rate credibility, and long-term bonds — especially as markets grapple with talk of firing Jerome Powell, ...

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments, Damien Klassen, is joined by Martin North of DFA Live in a special collaboration to unpack the fast-moving geopolitical shifts in Venezuela, Ukraine, and Taiwan — examining how rising assertiveness from powerful leaders is challenging ...

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, explores how the rapid rollout of AI could drive power prices higher — why the sheer volume of energy isn’t the issue, but the speed of demand growth is, and what this looming pressure means for investors across the ...

Why your "Green" fund might just be a lump of coal wrapped in expensive paper. Santa Claus was the original ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) investor. He maintains a strict (checks it twice) database of global citizens, performs due diligence on their behaviour, and engages in negative ...

Five years ago, during the first Trump presidency, I wrote a controversial post titled Could Trump be Right About Ethical Investing?.

If you listen to the masters of the financial universe, a revolution is upon us. In his 2025 letter, Larry Fink of BlackRock hailed tokenisation as the path to "democratisation." The narrative is seductive: every asset—stocks, bonds, art, real estate—will live on a blockchain. Settlement becomes ...

Quick disclaimer. I run ethical funds. We let clients add or subtract ethical (and investment) themes from all our portfolios. But I've never been a fan of the industry. Seven years ago, in a post titled Ethical Snake Oil, I argued that the booming industry of ESG (Environmental, Social, and ...

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments, Damien Klassen, is joined by Martin North from DFA to unpack eight critical megatrends set to shape markets and investment returns in the years ahead — and why their combined impact could be powerful, complex, and often pulling in very ...

I’ve been seeing a particular type of chart circulate more frequently: the one plotting the S&P 500’s forward price-to-earnings ratio against the market’s subsequent 10-year returns. At first glance, it looks authoritative — hundreds of data points neatly arranged, a strong downward ...

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, digs into the great valuation debate — exploring how stretched markets truly are, what’s driving the disconnect between price and fundamentals, and where investors should be most cautious as the cycle matures. ...

I’ve been watching Australia’s inflation story unfold with a mix of familiarity and unease. Each new data release feels like déjà vu: price pressures that refuse to cool, warnings from the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) that feel increasingly stern, and a sense that the path forward is narrowing ...

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, examines the latest crypto price crash — assessing where digital assets now fit within an investment portfolio, what’s really driving the volatility, and whether Larry Fink’s push for a tokenisation boom offers any ...

One of the unique aspects of Nucleus Wealth is that you can access the same core portfolios—whether you invest through a self-managed super fund (SMSF) or a personal super fund.

In this week’s podcast, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Investment Officer, Damien Klassen, is joined by Leith Van Onselen to break down the Pacific’s growing inflation divide — why the U.S. Federal Reserve is edging toward cuts while the Reserve Bank of Australia is holding firm, what’s really driving the ...

Every cycle has a bellwether. Today it's NVIDIA. We're operating in a two-speed economy where the US consumer looks fatigued, while corporate AI spending is a rocket ship.