cash

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...

One of the biggest questions facing equity investors today is when and how to deploy surplus cash that they may have available. This is a question we have studied...

Move over capital deployment. Preservation of capital is becoming the strategy du jour for an increasing number of fundies. Andrew Macken, who manages around $500...

With global markets officially in correction territory this week, February has very quickly become a month to forget for investors. But as the famous expression by...

After such robust performance from equities and bonds in 2019, many investors are now seeking safety in cash. But is cash really the best investment for 2020? In the...

I had an early morning coffee with my grandmother on New Year’s Eve. Born in the 1920s and known to all my friends as Oma, she’s now living through the twenties again....

These are extraordinary times for the domestic cash market. Bank bill yields closed 2019 below 1.00%, their lowest ever levels, while the Official Cash Rate in...

In the last six months, the cash rate set by the Reserve Bank of Australia has fallen 0.75%. It is estimated that cash returns on savings accounts and term deposits...

For the last decade central banks have done their best to punish savers by cutting interest rates to record lows and buying up government bonds. This has pushed yields...

Equities, fixed income, and alternatives tend to get all the media attention and headlines, but there's an oft-forgotten asset class that underpins most investor's...

We sat down with Simon Doyle, Head of Fixed Income & Multi-Asset at Schroders Australia, and asked him how he would allocate a million dollars today. In his responses...