Tag Archives: investing

January 2, 2023

From Dusk to Dawn

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For investors, 2022 will be looked back upon as a year goldilock investors were chomped by bears. In a rare feat, the good ol 60/40 bond/equity balanced “goldilocks” portfolio had one of its worst performances ever. The Australian equity component fared a little better than international counterparts thanks to strength in energy and commodity stocks. […]

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October 16, 2022

Illiquidity Crisis

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Near on three weeks ago the first we witnessed the first major Central Bank policy “pivot” from the Bank of England as it changed its fiscal rhetoric from tightening to “accommodative”, within 24 hours as UK Pension Funds started panic selling Bonds to meet Margin Calls (very 2007).  Global Markets were in freefall and desperately […]

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May 30, 2022

Bad News is Good News Again

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Been wondering what’s behind the share market strength of last week and early this week? Dead cat bounce short squeeze or new bull market? Time will tell.  This rally began last week with horrible economic news out of the US and Europe, giving investors exactly what they needed, enough bad news to have some central […]

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March 13, 2022

A Monetary Earthquake

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The financial and geopolitical happenings of the last two weeks are enormously important to our current financial system and misunderstood by many investors but for a few astute analysts.  The Russian invasion of Ukraine, corresponding Western sanctions and attempted seizure of Russian FX reserves are nothing short of a monetary earthquake. The last comparable event […]

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January 9, 2022

Get Set

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Happy New Year to all. As we welcome in 2022, from an investment perspective, let’s recognise 2021 for what it was for financial markets. Peak speculation. Fuelled by the largest money creation experiment in modern economic history, speculative excesses were not limited to, Alt Coins with crazy names, Bit Coins, NFT Tokens/Art, Cathy Wood/Tesla (same), record SPAC […]

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December 5, 2021

Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble

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Readers of these pages will surely know that Hubble Bubble Toil and Trouble was the chant of the witches in Shakespeare’s, The Tragedy of Macbeth, as they tossed their horrible artefacts into a boiling cauldron, often coming up with varying predictions, such as, “he shall be king”. The lasting insight of Macbeth is the tale […]

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September 13, 2021

Flash Crashed

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Welcome to a new week! Shockingly, global stock markets had a down week last week, led by the US. That’s right folks, no rescue, US equity markets down almost 2% for the week on the back of the 4th straight week of the US Fed threatening to take some of the punchbowl away without actually […]

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August 1, 2021

Chasing Opportunity

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The Global Central Bank Economic Frankenstein experiment in bubbles and inflation continues to march on a scale that would have been hard to imagine 10 years ago. The comment of this week that best summarizes current policy maker mindset, goes to the US Pres himself, Joe Biden (via Bill Blain), “if inflation gets out of […]

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