economic growth

There's a real risk that China is heading down the same path as Japan did in its "lost decade". This expert says there's one way to stop it.

How to access fully franked dividends whilst diversifying your portfolio with global equity investments

In this month’s Insight, we tackle the great stagflation debate (economic stagnation + high inflation). There is no question that inflation has proved less transitory...

There are tailwinds supporting equal weight investing as we sail into 2022, including the reopening of the economy. As the Australian economy emerges from the 2021...

Consistent with trends in past budgets, the 2021 Federal Budget saw the Commonwealth Treasurer identify a further $15.2 billion in new spending on major...

As usual, I start with my long held view that the short term for investment markets is much harder to forecast than the long term. Therefore, I outline our...

Every quarter I like to look at the changes in Australian GDP and which categories are responsible for the growth / decline. Each bubble represents a category of GDP...

In January 2017 Providence published a whitepaper on Long Term Returns. At the time we suggested that Long Term returns from a traditional balanced portfolio were...

On 18 May, Australian citizens over the age of 18 will be required to vote to elect members of the 46th Parliament of Australia. As always, there is a chance of a...

Global economic growth is slowing due to a slowdown in China driven by President Trump’s trade war. This is the conventional wisdom accepted by most and questioned by...