cryptocurrencies

Whether investors welcome it - or even realise it - cryptocurrency, or crypto, is having an impact on their portfolios. The immense size of the cryptocurrency...

Welcome back to Off the Charts! bringing you everything you need to know from markets (and some things you don't). The world of crypto was as bonkers as ever this...

Australian banks remain a staple of local investors, particularly those with a focus on income, and there are many good reasons for this. For one thing, there’s our...

You know certain parts of the stock market are getting toppy when fund managers drop the “C” word. Comparisons with cryptocurrency emerged twice during the following...

One of the oft-quoted failed predictions from the start of the technological age is attributed to Ken Olsen in 1977: "there is no reason anyone would want a computer...

Daniel Pickering is the CIO at The ListedReserve, a fund manager that runs several strategies that invest across the cryptocurrency ecosystem.Being at an important...

Every other week seems to be about cryptocurrency crashing to the depths or soaring to new highs, the launch of a new coin, or investors signalling cryptos will be the...

No, it's not just you. The world felt peculiarly unstable this week. Was it the cyberattack in the US that struck the heart of a major infrastructure pipeline and...

As we were coming into 2021, I hadn’t planned on making Bitcoin, and the world of cryptocurrencies it inhabits, the subject of one of my commentaries. However, it’s...

When reflecting on the past year, one notable takeaway for the AIM investment team is to be mindful of keeping our focus on business fundamentals rather than...

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. ...