covid-19

“If isolation is the furnace of transformation, I could be ashes by now.” ― Stephen Christian, The Orphaned Anything's: Memoir of a Lesser Known.US equity markets fell...

From the March 23rd intra-day low of 4,429 to the current close, the ASX All Ordinaries index has rallied 19.4%. This begs the obvious question: is it time to go all...

In the space of just a few short weeks, governments and central banks globally have thrown absolutely everything at the COVID-crisis. The trillions of dollars of...

At times like these, old contacts of mine start to resurface, asking me what I think will happen next in markets. If I could predict markets, I'd have shorted the...

The Totus Capital Alpha Fund is up 9% CYTD for 2020, during a period when global equity markets have rerated significantly. Throughout the episode, Ben discusses the...

In over 15 years of writing opinion pieces in newspapers, very few have had such a positive response as this AFR column today proposing that the Prime Minister pivot...

Investors are looking at the US COVID-19 data as a guide for when markets may settle down. Our view is that it’s going to be tough for markets to find a bottom until...

The equity sell-off amid the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak has been remarkable for its speed and severity, with all sectors negatively impacted. But as in previous...

When COVID-19 (coronavirus) first made headlines, in China, then worldwide, global market reactions were complacent. It was perceived as a primarily Chinese issue,...

The US forces stationed in the Philippines in 1942, faced an impossible task. The Japanese Imperial army had taken control of most of South East Asia and there would...

Equity markets are working hard to create a market trough, with US markets overnight rising for the third day to be on pace for their best three-day rally since 1933....

Legendary investor Howard Marks from Oaktree Capital recently released his latest client memo. This time centering on COVID 19 and its effects on markets.In it were...

It hardly seems like a few of weeks ago that we were considering the imminent spread of COVID-19 outside of China and to the rest of the world. While the reaction of...

Here at Montgomery we have been tracking COVID-19 testing data, rather than just cases alone. Our logic is that testing drives cases, and that case growth would...

The Australia Day long weekend feels like a lifetime ago now. Back then, there were just 400 cases of Coronavirus, all of which were in some far off place called...

Australia is in uncharted territory. With the Reserve Bank of Australia officially turning to unconventional monetary policy, what should investors expect and how...

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...

In his masterpiece, The World in Depression, Charles A. Kindleberger concludes the major cause of the Great Depression was a paralysis of leadership caused by the...

When we last spoke to Jonathan late last year, he noted that there was hardly any distressed debt on the market for him to buy. Now there's a feast. In today's...

In October last year, Jerome Lander wrote a wire titled "How to invest productively in the coming recession we have to have". At the time, equity markets were...