Investment Perspectives: Negative bond yields - what does it mean, and what’s the end game?
Since the beginning of this year, financial markets and expectations have turned decidedly bearish. Concerns about a Sino-US trade war, along with the so-called ‘inversion’ of the US yield curve, have heightened apprehension of a US-led recession.
Investment Perspectives: Five lessons & observations from our first five years
Time flies. On 30 July 2014 we launched the Quay Global Real Estate Fund
Investment Perspectives: Where profits come from, and the vulnerabilities in Australian corporate earnings
Equity investors rejoiced in June as the Fed signaled it may cut interest rates, but interest rates do not drive long run equity performance - profits do. We take a look at why investors should spend less time thinking about or predicting what the Fed will do, and more time thinking about the purse strings controlled by Congress.
Investment Perspectives: A conservative government, falling interest rates, and new APRA lending guidelines; w
The RBA recently cut its official interest rate by 25 basis points to a record low of 1.25%.
Investment Perspectives: Modern Monetary Theory Part 2, and why you're still hearing a lot more about it
In this edition of Investment Perspectives, Chris Bedingfield highlights additional insights from MMT as it relates to the private sector and the external accounts (external trade and the current account).
Investment Perspectives: Modern Monetary Theory, and why you're about to hear a lot more about it
If you’re paying attention to US politics, you may be aware of an emerging new[i] economic theory supported by many US Democrats, including Congress ‘freshman’ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. This economic framework is generally known as Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT.
Investment Perspectives: The great unwind of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet, and whether it actually matt
Gyrations in equity markets over the past three months have been significant. After a -4.2% decline in December and -11% fall for the final quarter of 2018, global equities have recovered strongly, up 9.5% so far this year.
Investment Perspectives: Will the US yield curve invert?
It’s been 10 years since the global financial crisis tore through markets in the months surrounding the collapse of Lehman Brothers in October 2008. While the tussle between the bulls and bears is always ongoing, in the time since it has been the bulls that have, on average, been winning.
Investment Perspectives: Don't judge a property by its building
Not long after my daughter turned five I took her to see her first movie, “Up”. It’s about an elderly man who, along with an unexpected young friend, tries to re-capture his youthful passion for adventure.