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Will a “silent tax” solve today’s jaw-dropping debt problem?

To say that government debt levels are high is nothing new. Even before COVID hit, despite years of austerity, debt levels were already extremely elevated. But after...
Miles Staude
Global Value Fund
Macro

Hamish Douglass's one piece of investment advice

There were sober reflections on both his flagship fund’s below-benchmark performance and the extraordinary market events that led it there, but no apologies from the...
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Livewire Markets
Macro

Why income is as important as ever for long-term investors

Whether you think there is a bubble, or the current valuations are justified doesn’t matter. It’s a fact that valuations are higher than they have ever been for many...
Chad Padowitz
Talaria Asset Management
Macro

Where Morgan Stanley sees value today

Nathan Lim developed an early sense of self-reliance, immigrating as a child to Vancouver, Canada. His parents moved there with Lim and his older brother when the...
Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Macro

The biggest risk to our bullish forecast

Morgan Stanley has a decidedly bullish view on the trajectory of the global economy and, by extension, markets for 2021. We view 2021 as the start of a...
Nathan Lim
Lonsec Holdings
Macro

Slowly, but surely: The emergence of new market leaders

The rotation into low multiple - or value - stocks has gathered pace in recent months following an acceleration in the vaccine rollout, combined with additional...
Jacob Mitchell
Antipodes
Macro

Which are the safest cyclicals as the recovery trundles on?

Casting a critical eye over the Value stock universe, our four fund managers reveal which sectors they’re most bullish on as the vaccine-led reopening and recovery...
Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Macro

Climbing up Philip’s Inflation Curve

In the AFR I write that the most daunting challenge Australia’s central bank boss, governor Philip Lowe, faces is surmounting the formidable slopes of what is...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Should we worry about a spike in US inflation?

Key former policy-makers and academics have raised concerns about US inflation risks stemming from an unprecedented peacetime stimulus delivered as the economy is...
Kieran Davies
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Cash rates up by 2023? Not bloody likely

The impressive recovery in the Australian labour market has brought forward expectations for the timing of the RBA’s first cash rate hike. Earlier this month, the RBA...
Ken Liow
Realm Investment House
Macro

3 market scenarios: Which is more likely?

The stock market tends to be driven by narrative. For much of last year, the narrative was that bad news was good news. Bad economic news meant bond yields fell and...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

Aussie growth outlook as good as it’s going to get

Credit investors have good reason to be optimistic about the global recovery trajectory over the next few years, but mainly in developed markets including Australia,...
Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Macro

Why it’s time to move assets offshore

Following the Great Pandemic of 2020, the global economy is entering a robust recovery. This new business cycle is not like those that followed the previous two...
David Llewellyn-Smith
David Llewellyn-Smith
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

Macro Monday: Is Bitcoin ringing the bell?

Last week saw the ASX200 push to a fresh post-COVID high, finally ending the week less than 2% below its previous peak as local equities danced the bullish risk jig....
James Gerrish
Market Matters
Macro

Challenging times for the market’s speculative elements

We are now one full year on from the COVID-19 outbreak and the subsequent initial lockdowns that resulted in a collapse in global economic activity and stock markets....
Andrew Clifford
Platinum Asset Management
Macro

Six reasons to not worry about inflation

It’s that time in the cycle again. US bond markets and commentors are worried about inflation. But with US unemployment at 6.2%, should this be a concern? ...
Chris Bedingfield
Quay Global Investors
Macro

What the RBA's house price forecasts might look like...

In the AFR I write that while our contrarian macro forecasts have been widely documented, what is not as well understood is the many complex inputs into these...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Off the Charts! Zip smashes expectations, Alibaba thanks the CCP and a $100 million deli

G'day and welcome back to the latest instalment of Off the Charts! bringing you the biggest headlines of the week on all things investing. The theme of this week,...
ZIP
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Livewire Markets
Macro

The market is overreacting

In the month of March, global markets saw the rise in bond yields as investors worried about unmanageable inflation on the horizon. This has definitely shaken up...
REA
Andrew Macken
Montaka Global Investments
Macro

Forecasting the housing boom using a key RBA model

In a new research paper (download here), Coolabah’s Chief Macro Strategist, Kieran Davies replicates one of the RBA’s internal models on the Australian housing market...
Kieran Davies
Coolabah Capital
Macro

'Savvy investors': Increase your income, despite decreasing rates

Service stations and quick service restaurants are not typically front of mind when everyday investors think about investment income. So why are yield hungry investors...
Shane Wakelin
Shane Wakelin
Fawkner Property
Macro

"An inflation hill moment approaches," says Charlie Jamieson

The macro-environment ahead is largely good news for investors, says Charlie Jamieson, CIO of Jamieson Coote Bonds. “The prospect of rising inflation is opening a...
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Livewire Markets
Macro

What you need to know about NFTs and the blockchain

Move over cryptocurrencies. There’s a new kid on the block(chain) – non-fungible tokens (NFTs). And if you’re an investor, you need to know about them. Because there...
Roger Montgomery
Montgomery Investment Management
Macro

10 Charts to Watch in 2021 [Q1 Update]

Welcome to Q2! Things have moved fast since my original post (both in terms of market movements and the general consensus/sentiment). So I thought it would be helpful...
Callum Thomas
Topdown Charts
Macro

What is happening in growth vs value investing?

In the past we have commented several times on the relative performance of value vs growth investing, including this article from the middle of last year, which...
Tim Kelley
Montgomery Investment Management
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