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Understand the fast-changing domestic and global economic forces under the tectonic plates driving our markets.

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8 more icebergs right up ahead

In October last year, Jerome Lander wrote a wire titled "How to invest productively in the coming recession we have to have". At the time, equity markets were...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
Macro

What CEOs are saying about the COVID crisis

As part of the NAOS investment process, we pay particular attention to the comments made by company CEOs and business leaders in order to gain a greater understanding...
NAOS Asset Management
NAOS Asset Management
NAOS
Macro

Aussie dollar's wildest week since GFC

A week is a long time in politics and certainly in FX markets. Last week the US Dollar Index was close to 18 month lows, undermined by the rapid spread of Covid-19 in...
Sean Callow
Sean Callow
Westpac Bank
Macro

Markets learn hard way: don’t fight the RBA

In the AFR today I write that this was the official family’s finest hour—Australia’s own “Draghi moment”—where historic tensions between Scott Morrison’s government,...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Act in Haste, Repent at Leisure

From complacency to fear to excitement. Such is the journey of an investor. Right now investors with capital to deploy should not be afraid but excited – and of...
Romano Sala Tenna
Katana Asset Management
Macro

Defence, defence, defence

Last week, Wilson Asset Management hosted their 2020 investor conference call. Chairman and CIO, Geoff Wilson used the opportunity to talk about market volatility, and...
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Bella Kidman
Bella Kidman
Livewire Markets
Macro

Crestone’s chart of the day

“If you don’t have a god to believe in, I would get one very rapidly”Australian comedian and TV presenter Kate Langbroek explained last night on Channel 10’s The...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Macro

Tracking the Coronavirus (COVID–19)

Following on from our “Tracking the Coronavirus (COVID-19)” article last week, we thought we would provide an update to this fluid situation.Munro Partners has been...
Nick Griffin
Munro Partners
Macro

RBA and Treasury Roll-Out QE Bazookas!

As I foreshadowed in my last Financial Review column, the RBA has delivered precisely the optimal policy package for combatting the worst demand-side crisis since the...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Four criteria we are considering before buying shares in this market

With the Australian market in freefall, readers and clients alike have asked us where we are looking to invest. While we continue to monitor the fluid situation...
Joseph Kim
Macro

Going on the defensive stance

COVID-19 is a fast-moving and fluid situation. The most likely outcome of the efforts to contain this health emergency is a near total shutdown of the world’s economy...
Magellan Investment Partners
Magellan
Macro

What are Australia's near-term growth prospects?

The most recent Crestone Investment Forum was held on 26 February, yet much has transpired globally and in Australia since that time. Most pressingly,...
LGT Crestone
LGT Crestone
Macro

Will China lead the recovery?

Companies in China appear best placed to emerge soonest and with least damage from the global coronavirus pandemic, according to a survey of Fidelity’s equity and...
Fidelity International
Fidelity International
Macro

Liquidity might not work this time – Part 2

A few weeks ago in part one of this series, we suggested that this was a unique supply side event where Central Bank liquidity couldn’t redress the major issues of a...
Charlie Jamieson
Jamieson Coote Bonds
Macro

What the government and RBA can do to save the economy...

We are in the eye of the worst financial storm in modern history, which has vaporised the liquidity of key government bond markets, compelling profound central bank...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Coronavirus causes Markets State Of Emergency | Nucleus Investment Insights

In today's emergency podcast, our attention turns to one of the most volatile periods in money markets we have seen in a century. We thought given the uncertainty,...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

Policymakers: Pulling Out All The Stops

In the face of the most serious global health crisis in more than a century, fiscal and monetary policymakers around the world will very likely have to pull out all...
Joachim Fels
PIMCO
Macro

Coronavirus: Summer might not be the saviour we thought

One factor I have been watching closely is the spread of the coronavirus through summer or tropical countries. For most of February, it appeared travellers brought...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

Fear and panic will not see us through; reason and rationality will

The last seven days have been historic times in markets. The eleven-year bull market that started on 9 March 2009 finally ended eleven years and two days later, amidst...
Charlie Aitken
Charlie Aitken
Aitken Investment Management
Macro

Three key themes for volatile markets

The most recent Crestone Investment Forum was held on 26 February, yet much has transpired globally and in Australia since that time. Most...
LGT Crestone
LGT Crestone
Macro

I tried to warn them about the coming liquidity crisis...

On 28 February I wrote to the Reserve Bank of Australia, the prime minister, and the treasurer warning that “it is clear both equity and bond markets are starting to...
Christopher Joye
Coolabah Capital
Macro

Can Australia survive Coronavirus & China combination blows? With Dr Salvatore Babones | Nucleus Investment Insights

Coronavirus shocks have resulted in a major blow to Australia by slowing economic activity with its major trading partner, China. We look at the 3 sectors hit hardest...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Macro

Are we in the midst of a full-blown liquidity crunch?

Markets are moving at lightning speed in response to the clear and present danger of the halting of economies and changing consumer behaviours.Last weekend Putin flew...
Charlie Jamieson
Jamieson Coote Bonds
Macro

V-shaped recovery is looking more likely

The coronavirus has thrown the markets for a loop, understandably. Half of the solution is understanding the problem, so we are reassured by the universal and unified...
Catherine Wood
ARK Invest
Macro

A collapse that was waiting to happen

Investors are facing a new reality. The longest bull market in history seems to be over. A double shock, triggered by a global pandemic and an oil price war, are...
Fidelity International
Fidelity International
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