investment strategy

A healthy bull market for equities has both macro and micro feeding optimism and upside. Alas, February has not delivered the required unity

When conducting strategy research and development, we like to think in terms of what the new strategy will add to our current portfolio of systems. In general, we are...

Sometimes the most important market insight is hiding underneath daily share price movements. Intriguingly, the latest update into who's buying and selling US...

Market downturns are painful to go through and are an unavoidable part of investing.  The way you handle periods when your investment portfolio is declining, can...

Key Points: ‍• Whether the market has troughed or will make new lows depends on whether the Fed is able to achieve a moderation in inflation without too much...

The critical narrative in markets in recent months has been that: “The Fed will tighten until something breaks”. That theme was reinforced by Powell at last month’s...

Take a good look at your investments. Are they all based on solid investment philosophy and strategy? Or a random mix selected based on factors like your mood or a hot...

In the end, corporate results season throughout August was not as bad as many had feared. The obvious observation to add is that while most companies managed to cope...

Airlie's Emma Fisher is normally a glass half-full investor. Given equity markets typically rise six out of every seven years in an average cycle, there is good reason...

The August corporate reporting season is now mid-month in Australia, but in terms of actual numbers the harvest to date is still tiny. FNArena's Corporate Results...

They say that numbers don't lie - but no one ever said that numbers can't be confusing. The signals for a global recession have been mixed, to say the least. On the...

 If I were to make a good-humoured attempt at an old fashioned Dad-joke, I'd start off with: I am old enough to remember when corporate reporting season in...

Reading equity markets research and strategy reports from around the world, two trends have clearly emerged in recent weeks: a growing acceptance/belief the US...

When America sneezes, the world catches a cold. The US is already halfway to a technical recession, with the most recent quarter recording a slight contraction. And...

Let's not mince words - the window of publicly available investment ideas has been narrowing for some time. As interest rates rise by multiples of market expectations...

"For people still in their prime earning years, this bear market is likely to be as bullish in the long run as it is painful in the short run. For older investors, the...

Greg Goodsell, 4D’s Global Equity Strategist, recently spoke to Bennelong Funds Management account director, Dave Whitby, about 4D's unique country review process –...

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” - Albert Einstein They say the only constant in this world is change. At any moment, a black swan event could...

Invest in inflation. It's the only thing going up. — Will Rogers Every day we read about higher costs of food, energy and property via higher interest rates, while...

Stocks go up, stocks go down. And whoever observes share markets on a daily basis fully well knows there are all kinds of variations in between. One thing remains,...