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Why the market may be overreacting to tariffs

It’s hard to keep track of the latest tariff twists and turns as the US and China battle it out at the negotiating table, but the news is not all bad. In fact, the...
Andrew McAuley
Credit Suisse
Macro

Four mega-trends shaping markets

It’s human nature to over-emphasise the here and now, to focus on the news agenda and to extrapolate the recent past. When it comes to our investments, however, it...
Tom Stevenson
Fidelity International
Macro

Four key charts for investors today

We are investing through extraordinary times, with huge forces at play. To extract the market's 'signal' from the 'noise', we asked four of our partners to nominate a...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
Expert Insights

The developed world is on the brink of financial, economic, social and political crisis

(Ed note: First published 28th August 2019 - This remains our most popular video of all time, receiving over 750,000 views) Developed economies are at a crisis point,...
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Macro

Weekly Review: Trade Fury!

Global MarketsWhile hopes of a stabilisation in trade tensions and more policy stimulus (with talk of a US payroll tax cut and German fiscal action) helped to buoy...
David Bassanese
Betashares
Macro

RBA signalling QE may be coming

I've written a lot about the coming of Aussie QE since we first forecast it in May this year (the notion was dismissed by many at the time), and there is mounting...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Federal Funds Rate projections. They expect what???

Following on from the article we wrote in December 2018, 'Outlook 2019' (found here), we outlined four key themes for 2019. The US interest rate path, implications of...
Hue Frame
Frame Funds Management
Macro

President Trump is stuck with a strong dollar

The strength of the US dollar remains a sore point for President Trump. This week he reported its value as the highest in US history. We hear many claims of...
Sean Callow
Sean Callow
Westpac Bank
Macro

QE will create wave of zombie companies

Today I argue that since we blindsided participants by first putting the likelihood of the Reserve Bank of Australia launching quantitative easing (QE) back in May,...
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Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Here's how digital currencies could affect asset prices, central bank policies

During August many families travel on holiday to far flung climes. When they arrive, how will they buy their tourist souvenirs? Today it might be dollars and euros, in...
Andrew Milligan
abrdn
Macro

Market turmoil and what it all means for investors

Only last month share markets in the US and Australia were at record highs. But ever since President Trump ramped up the US-China trade war again at the start of...
Shane Oliver
AMP
Macro

Is the US economy headed for recession?

The past few weeks have seen a fundamentally changed investment environment in the U.S.. Since July 31, the Federal Reserve has cut interest rates for the first time...
Matt Reynolds
Matt Reynolds
Capital Group
Macro

Bonds in a bind

Over recent weeks the trade war ebbed and flowed, Hong Kong erupted in more protests, both the UK and Germany teetered on recession, New Zealand’s central bank stunned...
John Abernethy
Clime Asset Management
Macro

Complexity Premia on Questioning Consensus

The latest episode of our Complexity Premia podcast is live and it is a big one! We discuss: what happened in bond markets in July and August; why the world’s best...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Is the era of central banks drawing to a close?

In January 2014, over five years ago, we wrote in our Half Year Report: “As a nervous January in the markets comes to an end, we still believe the ending of active...
Chad Slater
Chad Slater
Ellerston Capital
Macro

Dalio: The biggest China risk investors face is having no exposure

It wasn't until I read Ray Dalio's 'Principles' book that I knew how long he had been visiting China, and how closely he has been involved with its economic story. (I...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
Macro

Getting the right asset mix when markets send mixed messages

Central banks have made their moves. Politicians have delivered key announcements. What do these mean for financial markets for the rest of the year and into 2020? On...
Andrew Milligan
abrdn
Macro

Will trade war history repeat itself?

Once upon a time there was an Asian country that had a large trade deficit with the United States. The US said this country manipulated its currency, engaged in unfair...
Mary Manning
Alphinity Investment Management
Macro

Trade tensions buffet the Aussie

It’s fair to say that President Trump’s threat to impose 10% tariffs on the $300bn of US goods imports from China that are not currently taxed was not well received in...
Sean Callow
Sean Callow
Westpac Bank
Macro

Trade war transforms into trade impasse

Today I argue that the trade war could be over, or at least transform into a trade impasse, which might in turn unleash the mother-of-all search for yield rallies as...
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Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Building long-term wealth in a low-growth world

There is a simple secret to building long-term wealth - earn consistent, attractive returns on capital, re-invest these returns and allow them to compound and...
Mark Arnold
Mark Arnold
Hyperion
Rapid Fire

An Aussie stock that ticks all the boxes

In the second part of our Q&A, Tony Cousins, Chief Executive & Chief Investment Officer at Pyrford International, discusses some Aussie stocks that tick all of his...
COH
CSL
RIO
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Escalating US-China trade war triggers (another) correction in share markets

After a third round of talks made little progress last week, the US/China trade war has escalated badly with tit for tat moves on an almost daily basis by each side....
Shane Oliver
AMP
Macro

Bridge over troubled water: Correction or Recession?

Recent stock market volatility and fixed income market extremes have presented equity and fixed income investors alike, with one of the most challenging and complex...
Rod Skellet
Rod Skellet
Mason Stevens
Rapid Fire

Where to hide in an inflating bubble

After starting out as an equity portfolio manager at Daiwa International Capital Management in London during the late 1980s, Tony Cousins is now Chief Executive &...
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