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Over the past two years, the US economy has been incredibly resilient buoyed by significant government spending and an employed, spendthrift consumer. As the current...

Murdoch speaks with James Williamson the CIO at Wentworth Williamson about investing in deep value companies and private credit.

Weekly Update | 22nd December, 2023

Higher interest rates and slowing consumer spending are bringing a much wider dispersion of company earnings and stock returns. This gives active global equity...

Interest rate hikes have not stopped consumers spending as abruptly as many had expected, due to full employment and rising real wages. Global investors might consider...

The neutral rate of interest appears to be rising as households spend more and save less, while business investment levels rise. This will impact borrowing costs,...

Weekly Update | 18th August, 2023

The diminutive equity risk premium suggests Aussie stocks are more expensive than you think.

Income investors are now spoilt for choice. Should they dump their Aussie equities and allocate more to cash?

There was much anticipation from REIT investors going into this reporting season. It not only reveals how AREITs are coping with the sharp interest rate rises, but it...

I share my thoughts on where we are headed regarding Australia’s 2023 rates outlook, slowing inflation, and the risk of a global recession.

One of the accepted truisms in modern finance is that a lot of information can be derived from the yield curve. The US yield curve A positive sloping curve (as...

The key driver of September’s broad-based and significant weakness was inflation, and the realignment of interest rates to the reality of stubbornly higher...

"We are seeing volume declines in every segment around the world" FedEx CEOIn September 2022, the FedEx (FDX) share price tumbled 30% when the company reported a...

This month, Australia’s two largest economies started reopening after months of lockdown, with expectations that it could unleash a wave of consumer spending and...

In our recent investor webinar, we discussed three issues that are challenging investors in today’s market and how we are managing these issues in Pengana’s Australian...

The US is at the centre of financial markets: When it sneezes, the world catches a cold. So recent concerns around inflation have put the world on notice. But,...

For anyone looking for a punt today, November's RBA announcement appears as a much safer bet than the Melbourne Cup. The Central Bank's pre-emptive and forward...

There was a brief period when “Faded (Where are we now)” topped the charts recently and we thought it would be an apt title for this week’s blog. Late last year, our...