bitcoin

Cryptocurrencies are once again capturing investors’ attention. Bitcoin, the sector leader, is attracting significant institutional capital and increasingly being...

Move over cryptocurrencies. There’s a new kid on the block(chain) – non-fungible tokens (NFTs). And if you’re an investor, you need to know about them. Because there...

"Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on scepticism, mature on optimism, and die on euphoria" - John Templeton It’s been just over three years since we last wrote...

2021 has started in a more volatile fashion than 2020 did. It wasn’t actually until mid-March that 2020 saw volatility, although clearly, it was extremely volatile...

The local market was hit from the start and gave up all the bounce from yesterday and some more. The main bashing was again led by the technology sector, with miners...

The dominant ‘crypto’, Bitcoin, now has an issued value of close to US$1 trillion, with massive punts being made by the likes of BlackRock, the world’s biggest funds...

Three weeks ago, you would likely never have heard of Dogecoin. The cryptocurrency launched in 2013 as a joke and remained relatively untouched by the market since....

Bitcoin has divided the investment nation as much as Trump has divided a nation. So many people are talking about, writing about, and now investing in Bitcoin. Even...

The slant of the early reporting by the popular media on the crowd-driven squeeze on heavily shorted shares like GameStop is worthy of commentary. The angle is one of...

Around three months ago, we wrote an article entitled “Is the sharemarket correctly pricing in fundamentals?” In that article, we compared the market capitalisation of...

Cryptocurrency is the Loch Ness monster of money: nobody has ever seen it, no one can keep track of it, its creator remains a mystery and its movement is beyond...

Gold, and more broadly gold equities, have disappointed over the last six months, despite record Central Bank monetary easing, aka money printing, alongside growing...

A podcast double-header this week. In our latest episode, we covered the booming Bitcoin Topics included How & why Bitcoin's valued Where it sits on the bubble...

2017 saw an extraordinary surge in the price of a Bitcoin. After beginning the year at around $1,000, the world’s first cryptocurrency reached prices of close to...

In my recent note, I discussed how listening to the world’s top CEO’s, CFOs and CTOs and their strategies in navigating this pandemic has allowed us to start to build...

During August many families travel on holiday to far flung climes. When they arrive, how will they buy their tourist souvenirs? Today it might be dollars and euros, in...

I've never bought bitcoin nor did I get caught up in the 'crypto' mania of 2017. In our opinion, bitcoin and other digital currencies could never have been widely...

Over the last 400 years, there has been no shortage of bubbles in various markets, ranging from Tulips in Amsterdam (1600s) to US dot.com stocks (2000). Thankfully,...

Last month we saw the FED raising rates for the 9th time in the last 3 years, now to 2.25-2.5% per annum. Also, this month, the FED might keep its Quantitative...

Long dubbed ‘Woodstock for Capitalists’, or the Stockmarket Superbowl as we prefer, the recently held Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting offered plenty of insights for...