volatility

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...