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There are plenty of investors questioning the veracity and sustainability of the rally in equity markets through the June quarter (particularly in the US), in the face...

Over the past decade both debt and equity markets have become increasingly disconnected from traditional measures of fundamental value. A sober examination leads to...

Hamish Douglass, Chairman and Chief Investment Officer, spoke with Janet Yellen, the most recent former chair of the Federal Reserve, and an adviser to Magellan, about...

Global equities are usually added to a portfolio for one reason – to increase diversification. With the Australian equity market representing only 2-3% of global...

A combination of an increasingly well-to-do consumer base, rising levels of education, leapfrogging several stages in the adaptation of smart digital technologies by...

The latest round of earnings are set to pour through, with the US banks on the radar of funds and analysts in the week ahead. Across the S&P 500, earnings are...

Global equities have been volatile over the last financial year. The period has been a tale of two halves, marked by strong market performance during the first...

Global equity markets continue to grind higher in July, with the S&P 500 index up more than 3% and European markets up 1-2%. As markets re-approach their post-COVID-19...

It was impossible to overlook global growth concerns throughout 2019 as the pace of economic activity slowed down notably in leading economies such as China and the...

Global equity markets had their highest quarterly returns in decades as markets rebounded from the March COVID-19 induced lows. The dramatic recovery was led by...

The World Bank estimates almost 93% of countries will face economic contraction on a per capita basis in 2020 as a result of the pandemic. It is a crisis that has...

A lot has happened over the last quarter, with equity markets enjoying a very sharp rebound. Most economies have begun to reopen and many people’s lives are beginning...

Summary Gold prices recently topped USD 1,800 per ounce, with the metal matching its highest ever quarterly close in USD in June. Gold exchange traded products...

Wall Street’s dramatic recovery in April and May has run out of steam. You don’t have to look far for why that might be. The resurgence of Covid-19 infections, to the...

With the ever-evolving post-COVID landscape, some investors see risk and others are seeing opportunity. Whenever there is a pivotal shift in market conditions, there...

There’s no doubt COVID-19 has been causing a roller-coaster of concern for investors. But Alex Vynokur, BetaShares chief executive officer, says the situation has also...

One question we have been regularly asked is when will Victoria's second COVID-19 wave actually peak. We can use our existing COVID-19 forecasting systems to address...

It was a big week. A whopping 35 placements were closed, and a tad over $938m of fresh funds made its way through markets. There were two things on every investor and...

There’s been a fair bit of commentary recently that because interest rates and yields are so low, government bonds no longer have a role in portfolios. The argument...

In the previous video, Roger Montgomery of Montgomery Investment Management and Ben Clark from TMS Capital stressed the importance of not overpaying for growth...