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“It far better to light the candle than to curse the darkness” William L. Watkinson, 1907Australia is almost certainly experiencing a recession. Yet, while consensus...

Toilet Paper – check; Food – check; Gold – check; Defence(s) – check. We have written extensively on gold and food so here-in we detail some of the work we have...

For every successful tech stock, there are dozens of others in its supply chain, including at least one semiconductor company. And just like the old strategy of...

Gold has a long association with finance and investing—from its use as a form of early currency to gold standard-based currencies from the late 1800s. More recently,...

Every so often, you find a story in a newspaper about a frugal living individual who had a modest paying job throughout their life, who everyone in their community...

Australia's exceptional efforts in flattening the COVID-19 curve quickly and crushing viral transmissions means that we may be a victim of our own success. The...

Last month has been world-changing, and it’s not over yet.With the caveat that I do shares and stocks, not viruses, one thing that I have found fascinating is the...

Economists have been asking for an equivalent of the US monthly payrolls series in Australia for decades. Sure, the Australian Bureau of Statistics’ (ABS) monthly jobs...

The March ’20 Distribution was the 32nd since the inception of the Aura High Yield SME Fund. We have delivered returns of 9.60% in the last 12 months, and 30.25% since...

It may not be surprising that market volatility has soared since the COVID-19 pandemic hit, but could this also be, to misquote the famous line, the correction ‘we had...

Who said capitalism was dead in the new world order of prolific government handouts? The profit motive is at least alive and kicking in the sexed-up sanitiser sector,...

Although the second quarter of 2020 will mark the worst quarter for United States and global growth since World War II, market uncertainty and peak fear have passed...

Across Asia as well as globally, countries are going through different stages battling a common enemy. We are not medical experts so will not opine on...

I was surprised to hear the suggestion that the blow-up of Virgin Australia's ASX listed 5 year corporate bonds (or floating-rate notes) was somehow a disaster for the...

The intensity of news flow recently has made events that happened only days ago feel like they took place in the distant past, and recent history – months or...

This year has proven to be a challenging one for investors as markets have been plagued by extreme volatility in the wake of the spread of COVID-19 and the global...

A key challenge to increasingly popular sustainable, or responsible, investing approaches is whether there is a financial price to pay for ‘doing good’. That used to...

The record bull market in equities turned into a bear market in March, roughly 11 years after the last one ended. Volatility was extreme. The Cboe Volatility Index...

The listed Virgin Australia bonds (VAHHA) look set to go down as one of the worst investments ever to appear on the ASX. After being issued in November 2019, the bonds...

Hamish Douglass speaks to Kevin Warsh, a former Member of the Board of Governors of the US Federal Reserve System, and presidential adviser on economic policy to...