risk

How well do you know yourself? Biases, timeframes, and the impact of investment decision making.

The Fed has taken interest rates to restrictive levels. The risk of recession is growing. It is time to reduce risk, and build resilience.

Why fear of missing out can make you lose out

Most of us tend to be better at buying and holding stocks than we are at selling. After all, buying is the fun part – it’s when optimism is kicking in. But knowing...

Being able to turn on a light is dependent on the stability of each link in what is a long, complex energy supply chain. An issue affecting any of these links can...

When markets go sideways, there are numerous levers equity fund managers can pull to dial down risk. Almost all can change their sector weightings and stock...

It’s probably one of the great understatements to describe markets in the third quarter as “challenging”, with July’s initial bounce in global equities giving way to...

There are degrees of risk in equity markets – a long-established large-cap banking stock is (generally) less volatile than a micro-cap mining play – and there are...

Say what you will about the film, but I thoroughly enjoyed 1998-smash Armageddon. For those who haven't seen it, NASA agents discover a large asteroid is set to hit...

People often leave their house or car, look to the sky and ask themselves: "Is it going to rain?" But for us at Talaria it’s fundamentally the wrong question. The...

After years of historically low market volatility since the 2008 financial crisis, investors can expect much larger swings in asset prices in the next few years....

Nosebleed market valuations are starting to price in a choppier recovery than was initially expected – courtesy of COVID’s Delta wave – but stock prices remain a key...

“Risk-adjusted returns”. That’s one of the more common phrases you will see on fund manager websites. It is, after all, what we are all trying to do: maximise returns...

A few months ago, I made my case in a video interview with Livewire as to 'Why the bulls are wrong'. Last week, Livewire reached out to me last week as part of a...

In our December Quarterly Outlook Statement, I published the below article highlighting a higher required return from equities should we continue to extrapolate low...

Say you own a $5 million waterfront home in a prime spot of a booming city. Life’s pretty good right - what could possibly impact the value of your house to any...

In the 1980 blockbuster, The Empire Strikes Back, Master Yoda utters the line: “Difficult to see. Always in motion is the future”.If Master Yoda hadn’t been a Jedi...

Marcelo López spoke with Vimal Gor, head of Fixed Income and Defensive Strategies at Pendal Group, an independent Australian asset manager with about US$100 billion in...

A$ Gold may be setting highs, but it’s a bit hard to go past the spate of recent blow-ups among the single-asset gold development stories. It’s been a slow and painful...

One of the unlikely outcomes from what we now might call the “franking credits scare” that dominated the election campaign has been the realisation among many...