cryptocurrencies

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...

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...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Awareness of potentially high-impact but improbable developments should help investors prepare for unexpected changes in market conditions. In our base case, the...

In 2015, China’s yuan joined the US dollar, euro, UK pound and yen as an elite currency in the IMF’s ‘special drawing rights’ that members can access in emergencies. ...

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...

Magellan has produced a return of 20% for FY19 and 16% p.a. for the last 10 years. In this episode of Inside the Rope, Hamish Douglass (Magellan's Chairman, CIO...

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...