monetary stimulus

2021 is likely to be a year many bond investors would choose to forget. The benchmark Bloomberg Global Aggregate Index declined around 4.7% for the year, its weakest...

There is only one chart, and one chart alone, that Australian investors need to watch closely over the year ahead, says Janus Henderson's Jay Sivapalan. In this wire,...

Tim Toohey from Yarra Capital – who was rated Australia’s number one economist for 13 consecutive years – recently sat down with Malcolm Maiden to share his latest...

Last year brought fiscal stimulus to the world's economy at a scale never seen before. In Australia alone, the government spent $257 billion in direct economic...

The stock market tends to be driven by narrative. For much of last year, the narrative was that bad news was good news. Bad economic news meant bond yields fell and...

Over the last few weeks, investors have been fixated on rising yields in fixed income markets. The benchmark US 10-year Treasury Note yield rose from 1.08% to 1.40%...

The end of JobKeeper on 28 March will leave Australian business owners with an $85 billion funding hole, as the tablecloth is yanked out from underneath them. But what...

The local market was hit from the start and gave up all the bounce from yesterday and some more. The main bashing was again led by the technology sector, with miners...

This year is widely billed as one of reopening and recovery for financial markets around the world, but one shouldn't rely solely on a turnaround of COVID-loser...

In today's investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth's Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith and Head of Advice Tim Fuller ask the...

With the ever-evolving post-COVID landscape, some investors see risk and others see opportunity. Yet, the outlook remains layered and complex based on a range of...

With the heavy amounts of Government stimulus being provided worldwide this year in response to Coronavirus' economic impacts, we wanted to get the perspective of...

Do Low Rates of Interest Really Support Markets? On 10 September, I concluded that they don’t. This article explores one of this result’s major implications: investors...

One of the shows that helped cement Netflix’s popularity as a streaming service is Stranger Things. The science-fiction thriller centres around the rural town of...

We are in a strange political environment. Globally there have been trillions of dollars of government stimulus announced, deficit hawks have turned chicken, and...