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Loose monetary policy has created a generation of ‘financial consumers’ gorging on cheap debt. Yet promises that the feasting can continue into perpetuity, simply...

Nineteen months since the end of the COVID-19 recession, Morgan Stanley's Nathan Lim believes we are currently well into the middle of the current economic cycle. In...

It’s easy to get bogged down in current market dynamics when a lot of energy is expended on predictions, but Bob Desmond, Portfolio Manager of the Claremont Global...

Everyone loves a house party until the punch bowl is taken away and the lights are turned on. In this video, Lucerne Investment Partners' Michael Houghton explains why...

In the AFR this weekend, I write that financial markets are probably not focussed enough on the fact that Aussie banks unilaterally lifting mortgage rates has huge...

The outbreak of COVID-19 had a cataclysmic impact on the global economy, with the governments of first world countries injecting populations with fiscal stimulus and...

Most people consider themselves lucky if they started investing in their 20s or 30s. Many wait until much later in life. But James, a 20-year-old Livewire reader and...

The distinct advantages of private debt must look appealing to investors seeking stable income streams in a world wary of inflation and central bank intervention. In...

[See a much more detailed update and extension to this analysis here.]In the AFR today I write that the normalisation of Australian inflation, and the Reserve Bank of...

Central banks in advanced economies have come to realise elevated inflation will persist for longer. They no longer see inflation as transitory, and recognise it will...