volatility

The Weekly S&P500 ChartStorm is a selection of 10 charts which I hand pick from around the web and post on Twitter. The purpose of this post is to add extra color and...

The choppy nature of the current market continued today with the ASX bouncing back from yesterday’s decline with all sectors finishing higher. After stabilising...

The intensification of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine – along with Putin’s nuclear talk – saw world oil prices surge 26% last week to US$115 a barrel, which in turn saw...

In late January, we recommended trimming equity risk and adopted overweight position in cash. The risks flagged have intensified in February. Inflation has been...

The moving average is one of the most popular technical indicators available to market participants. It is calculated by averaging share prices over a specific period....

It’s human nature that we tend to favour certainty in the stock market. But times of heightened uncertainty can lead to great opportunities for investors who position...

It was 18th-century British banker and politician Baron Rothschild who famously said investors should "buy when there’s blood in the streets, even if the blood is your...

Are sector rotation opportunities still alive in 2022? Bruce Williams from Elston and Simon Conn from IML seem to think so. In this Thematic discussion, they share a...

On 24 January, we recommended trimming some equity risk in portfolios. While we believe the economic outlook remains very positive, events over our summer, including...

2022 has started off with a bang, and not in the way investors would have hoped. The S&P/ASX 200 has fallen around 7% since the beginning of the year, while the Small...

There's a world of investments outside the traditional categories of equities, bonds and property, says Lucerne Investment Partners' Michael Houghton. An example of a...

“Inflation is not a problem.” That seems to be what the bond market is saying, an important bellwether as bonds are particularly ill-disposed towards bouts of...

MLC Asset Management's Jonathan Armitage has navigated a crisis or two during his working life and argues that this time, it is different. At the dawn of his career,...

Well, I think we can all agree it's been a strange week. Masks are once again mandatory in New South Wales, borders are shuttered, and travel plans, devastatingly,...

Shut up and take my money. What? Well, it's likely the first thing I would have said to you if you had told me that I could invest in an asset that could generate...

It was English writer Rudyard Kipling who famously wrote in his poem "If" of the value of "keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs". In a similar vein,...

The long, long bull market since 2009 has finally matured into a fully-fledged epic bubble. Featuring extreme overvaluation, explosive price increases, frenzied...

It is something we’ve all been told before. Successful long-term investors survive short-term volatility by sticking to investment principles that have withstood the...

“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...

2020 has seen volatile markets globally. However as we head in to 2021, investors are beginning to think of how to position their portfolios for the post-COVID...