risk

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...

With an escalating trade war, quantitative easing over, and China slowing down, market risk is running high. So when we sat down with global manager, Peter Rutter,...

With rates marching higher in the US, higher risk asset classes such as emerging market equities are seeing rising volatility. As risk reprices across the market, this...

Howard Marks of Oaktree Capital has recently released his updated view on the current market environment. The view of Oaktree is interesting, as they invest across...

This bull market is now one of the oldest on record, yet reasons to be wary of it are growing. We sat down with Matthew Haupt, Portfolio Manager at Wilson Asset...

In Australia today, growth is forecast to be around 2.5%, commodity prices are stable, jobs are strong, and inflation is low and stable. But in the background, risks...

Being able to measure and monitor the true level of mortgage delinquencies across an economy is essential for investors and regulators interested in asset pricing and...

For the last two calendar years, the Australian dollar has defied our expectations for weakness. But after hitting $US0.81 in January it’s been trending down as US...

A group of factors that supported the equity bull market for almost a decade, including excess liquidity, low volatility, and low rates, are now unwinding in a...

If there’s one thing the market’s not short of, it’s noise. With newsreels looking for a quick sugar hit, it’s easy to get clouted in the latest headlines. For...

There's been a fair bit of talk about a pending US recession. Much of this chatter has been fueled by simple analysis of the slope of the yield curve, which is widely...

There is an endless list of risks for investors to consider. But if we acted on every one of them, we’d never stay invested. To help isolate the key risks to consider...

The Bank Bill – Overnight Indexed Swap (OIS) spread is a keenly watched risk measure in fixed income markets that has experienced a significant widening in recent...