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Investor focus on the US election waned earlier this year after socialist Bernie Sanders dropped out of the Democratic primary race in favour of moderate Joe Biden. At...

How do people get richer during a recession? Free money! During past recessions, people become poorer as personal income falls when unemployment rises, which...

Previously Brett Craig of Aura Group outlined the opportunity to generate attractive income in the alternative asset class of SME debt capital. Of course, in strained...

In my previous post I highlighted screenshots from our real-time, global COVID-19 infection/fatality tracking-system that demonstrated that Victoria had never...

This week’s unfounded rumours of a Tesla takeover of listed battery group Novonix aside, the market for the so-called battery metals of graphite, lithium and cobalt...

The COVID-19 data coming out of the US is grim and getting grimmer. My concern is that many investors have been pricing in an increasingly positive economic recovery,...

Our data scientists’ analysis of Victoria's COVID-19 infection trajectory has unearthed a disturbing finding: it would appear that since April our southern neighbour...

Executive summary Sustainability has historically been the focus of large cap investors, but these factors are even more important in Australian small cap investing....

There has been a material amount of discussion regarding private debt levels in China and the potential risks that these may pose to the financial system. Determining...

The continued rise in in U.S. COVID-19 cases further undermined risk sentiment last week – even though, as U.S. President Trump noted, increased testing appears an...

Cloud computing is a global megatrend that is being led by technology giants Microsoft, Amazon and Google in a market that is growing at 30% per annum. But what does...

A monthly wrap-up of interesting and informative media on finance, economics, politics and society that you might have missed. Finance Close to half of US retail...

There is a perception among investors that it isn’t possible to earn an attractive yield with capital protection while official interest rates are at record lows. Bob ...

While it was clearly a risk off session following the -730pt slide by the Dow Jones on Friday, the selling wasn’t aggressive and Futures have rallied strongly into /...

In a recent webinar hosted by Grosvenor Capital Management for the Right Issue Offer in the Pengana Private Equity Trust, the team provided insight into why (and how)...

“The big money isn’t in the buying and selling…it’s in the waiting.” Charlie Munger, Berkshire HathawayWhile markets continue to focus on the recent...

Investors who have taken a balanced approach to income investing face a bittersweet outlook. On the one hand, the key Australian fixed interest benchmark is up 3.21%...

33 placements were completed this week, raising a total of $1.7b in fresh equity. The bulk of this was for Qantas, but a resurgence of small cap activity filled the...

Global stocks have staged a relentless rally in recent months even in the face of arguably the worst economic conditions since the Great Depression. While there are...

Global COVID-19 cases crossed the 10 million milestone over the weekend (and global deaths have almost breached 500,000). New cases averaged 70,000-80,000 per day...