inflation

February’s reporting season was unusual. At a time of year when focus is typically on earnings, these were largely overshadowed by macro-economic events. War and...

Insurance is certainly on the minds of many in Australia’s East right now, with much of the nation still underwater. And while there will be clear winners and losers...

This chart really helps put things into perspective, and in many respects it's perhaps one of the most important macro/market developments this year (decade?) And, uh...

Inflation has received a lot of attention in 2022 and the impacts have been pretty widespread so far. For example, supply shortages have resulted in product mark-ups...

A risk-management approach to unexpectedly high US inflation suggests that a fast return to neutral funds rate – 2½% on the Fed’s calculation or about 2% on market...

The RBA continued to keep rates on hold this month even though Inflation picked up more quickly than they expected. The length of time it took to resolve supply chain...

The market is projecting the Australian cash rate to rise to 1.20% by the end of the year, this implies that the RBA hikes 4.5 times on current numbers. Interestingly,...

This year has started with quite the kick to investors’ solar plexus. Bond yields have jumped, and equity markets have dropped. Not a good beginning to 2022 for either...

Gold got off to a strong start this year, rallying by 5%, putting it close to all-time highs. While much of the world’s focus is (rightly) on Ukraine, history suggests...

Over the last few years, falling interest rates have driven absolute market valuations to all-time highs – by many metrics. Given these high starting valuations,...