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There are degrees of risk in equity markets – a long-established large-cap banking stock is (generally) less volatile than a micro-cap mining play – and there are...

BHP is a long-time favourite among SMSF investors and it's easy to see why. The mining giant delivered a strong and growing dividend and distributes a valuable amount...

The great unwind has begun, and together with two successive supply shocks caused by a pandemic and then war, it has spawned the great chaos. After major central bank...

Such is the conundrum facing central banks as they seek to rein in inflation without choking off economic growth. Having retired the word ‘transitory,’ the US...

If you’ve listened to the latest episode of Stocks Neat, you’ll know that Steve, Harvey and I were in the States recently on our first business trip in more than two...

Last time I wrote about the current challenge for investors in the face of the potential combination of rising interest rates and falling growth, especially as so...

Investors with a penchant for small caps may know of Simon Conn, the long-standing senior portfolio manager of Investors Mutual's small and mid-cap funds. In this...

Well, folks, we've made it - and by that, I mean through the first quarter of 2022. It's been tough, tiresome, and damn it, sometimes terrifying, but at least the...

The spectacular slump we’ve seen in the ASX Small Ords and the NASDAQ 100 – down more than 7% and 15% – suggests the fever dream of the last two years might be over....

Elon Musk recently announced (via Twitter, of course) that he is considering getting into lithium mining to bring down prices. He needn’t bother. It’s a commodity...

In the AFR I write that in December and early January this column repeatedly warned investors to prepare their portfolios for an interest rate shock that would force...

The start of 2022 has seen the most unexpected black swan of all emerge – a war in eastern Europe. The Russian invasion singlehandedly pushed crude oil prices to...

The balance sheet recession that followed the global financial crisis was a powerful deflationary force. Watermark Funds Management's Justin Braitling explains why...

For more than two decades, investors have put faith in the value of the traditional 60:40 portfolio (1). This portfolio structure was designed to protect investors...

The market traded in a reasonably tight range for much of the session and importantly held firmly above 7500. Four sectors managed gains of more than 1% with tech...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell in March appeared before the Senate Banking Committee and vowed the US central bank would quell inflation running at four-decade...

BROS is one of the fastest-growing brands in the foodservice and restaurant industry in the United States by location count. Its unique and efficient drive-through...

If there is one thing investors can be sure of it's how uncertain everything is. Will inflation spin commodities into another supercycle? Will Anthony Albanese know...

The aggressive flattening of the 10-year versus two-year Treasury curve has spurred much market discussion. Like our fellow investors, we are closely watching the...

Russia's war in Ukraine has sent commodity markets markedly higher, further fueling inflation concerns in the near term. In a bid to cool inflationary pressures, the...