cash

With interest rates sitting at 3.6% and banks paying up to 5% on your savings, cash has once again taken its rightful place on the throne.

A recent Bank of America survey found that professional investors are holding their highest levels of cash in 21 years, with the research house's Michael Hartnett...

CBA's latest hybrid deal (ASX: CBAPL) looks very expensive, even though it offers a superior 5.79% yield to the franked dividend yield on CBA's shares of 5.51%. Now...

In the AFR I write that for better or worse, we live in a twilight zone spanning two worlds. First, there is the old world, where interest rates were to remain...

In this three-part interview series with portfolio manager Bob Desmond we first talked about Claremont’s outlook and strategy. We then ran the tape back a year and...

Everyone is finding it harder to make money - professionals, retail traders, and, as it turns out, the Future Fund. Livewire's Hans Lee takes a deep dive into the...

When we last detailed our outlook for the Australian dollar (AUD), in mid-September, we re-identified the fundamentals of our domestic currency’s worth using a...

When macro maestro Ray Dalio speaks, investors listen. (True, they don't always agree. But they listen.) Especially when the world can't seem to decide what sort of...

Equity allocations have surged to a two-year high. Cash allocations have dropped to the bottom end of the range. But cash "levels" have not changed much at all… Put...

When interest rates on deposits are so low and are likely to stay this way for many years, it is worth checking if you are holding more cash than you require. One...

One of the features of the FY20 reporting season was the excellent cashflow performance of most Australian small cap companies. With the onset of COVID-19, many...

Many of us are now familiar with the impact of low interest rates on our savings. For those unhappy with the meagre return on cash and term deposits, spare a thought...

Many readers of Livewire will be either managing their own portfolios and want to be informed, or they have outsourced the management of their portfolios and are...

For the last decade, the Australian cash rate was high enough that investors could allocate a portion of their portfolio to cash or term deposits and earn a reasonably...

As I reflect on the financial year just gone past it goes without saying that navigating markets through the challenges of COVID has certainly been an experience. This...

For Marcus Padley and his investors, it’s been a remarkably good six months during a year in which markets are straddling the boundaries of health, economic and...

In the AFR this weekend I write that super funds have a problem with their pure cash options right now as net returns are approaching zero and starting to turn...

While the wild swings in share, credit, currency, and commodity markets have garnered most of the attention in the months following the COVID-19 outbreak, cash markets...

Hoard your powder and keep it dry. That’s the key message from billionaire Robert Millner, Chairman of Washington H Soul Pattinson (WHSP), for investors in response to...

Cash is king. This is a common phrase heard particularly in times of market stress, but long term investors will well know that in the long run, cash as an asset class...