global equities

2020 was a record year for retail bankruptcies. It's a brutal industry – burdened by high fixed costs, at the mercy of changing consumer preferences, and facing...

The market environment presents investors with a challenging juncture. In the short term, a combination of healthy consumer balance sheets, low inflation, low interest...

Australia’s equity market performance versus global markets has waxed and waned over recent decades. A key driver of relative performance has been relative global...

Bank of America's Global Fund Manager Survey (FMS) surveyed 225 investors, collectively holding $645 billion in assets under management, to determine the outlook for...

PayPal laid bare its strategy last week at their investor day and it’s clear that consumer banking is squarely in its cross hairs. It has been a long journey for...

IB’s main value proposition is to execute trades in financial markets such as equities, options and foreign exchange. It needs four basic competencies to do this:...

The atmosphere across global markets is electric, and no this isn't a pun on EV's popularity. Rising exuberance across several sectors has been fuelled, rather than...

The atmosphere in the investment world of late has been nothing short of electric. In the space of a mere few days the VIX has spiked and fallen, GameStop - and now...

Investors today need to consider more than the hard numbers of target investments. Where most people spend 95% of their time crunching numbers, the majority of our...

2020 was an important year for the technology industry in China. Covid-19 generally benefited the entire digital ecosystem. At the same time, consumer tastes and...

For investors seeking to diversify their dividend income by looking outside of Australia, 2021 is shaping up as an intriguing year. The global dividend crunch of 2020...

20 years ago, many Superannuation, Pension and Endowment Funds in Australia were running asset allocations of close to 40% to Australian Equities, exhibiting a case...

Just like lying to your doctor about your alcohol consumption, or telling strangers that you've never watched The Bachelor, many of us (read: most) might not want to...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a decent investor in possession of a good sense of opportunity is in want of one great stock pick. Well, maybe not. But we...

There are some trades that so fill us with joy we become like a proud parent championing their children's sporting achievements, talking the ear off family and...

There’s no denying the world is ‘going greener’. A major structural shift in the way we produce and consume energy is underway and will accelerate significantly during...

November was a wild month in global markets between the conclusion of the US election and multiple rounds of good news regarding vaccines for Covid. We welcome the end...

As 2020 nears an end, investors face a challenging combination of crosscurrents. On the positive side, the US election has passed with a market-friendly outcome and...

Something interesting happened a month ago. I woke up on the 9 November and found one of the companies in our portfolio had rocketed overnight. And by rocketed, I...

In recent weeks the wheels have been turning on a market rotation following positive news on COVID-19 vaccine developments. We now enter 2021 with confidence that it...