interest rates

The average variable home loan rate in Australia has fallen from 8.3% to 5.1% in the past ten years, enabling households to borrow more and drive house prices higher....

There’s an overwhelming sense of déjà vu as far as the gold market is concerned. Two years ago during December 2015, we witnessed the first US Fed rate hike since the...

Markets have ‘baked in’ expectations that interest rates and inflation will stay low for a long time, but Simon Mawhinney, Chief Investment Officer at Allan Gray,...

In our new 'Christmas Cracker' series, each morning through to Christmas we will bring you a top insight for 2018 from one of our contributors. Today’s insight is by...

With the challenges facing leading dividend payers like CBA and Telstra, investors would be forgiven for being downbeat on the outlook for dividends. Telstra’s...

One change in the investment landscape is that markets now only price in the present and there’s no great institutional advantage in access to information. That’s the...