Any future stock market historian will look back at 2020 and think it must have been a pretty great year to be alive. Because despite the dramas of daily life — from bushfires to COVID-19 to US election lawsuits — it’s actually been a ripper of a year for most investors…
OK Boomer, Here’s Where You Should Consider Investing Now
We’re at a tipping point in intergenerational power dynamics… Gen Z will create the future… Gen Z are the group that come after the much talked about millennials (or Gen Y). So, people in their teens and early 20s today. Where should you invest with this changing trend?
Four Big IPOs to Watch in 2020 — IPOs Provide Clues About the Market
The COVID-19 pandemic put the handbrake on a number of big-name initial public offerings (IPOs) due earlier this year. However, with economies opening up and the stock market rocketing higher, there are a raft of major IPOs set to hit the market…
Overvalued Stocks? — A Warning from the Past and an Opportunity Today
Sure, stocks might look overvalued, but what’s the alternative? If you want to make good returns over the next couple of years, you need to forget the headlines and instead look for good companies to invest in…
Bitcoin Adoption — The Small Act with Big Consequences for Money
If you think about how far bitcoin has come in the last decade, and realise we’re at the point where rational corporate actors think it prudent to have some exposure to a cryptocurrency, you start to realise the magnitude of the moment.
Time to ‘Beat’ the Dumb Money — There is Alpha in Energy Investing
I want to look at a hidden opportunity playing out in slow motion — so slow in fact, I think many people are missing it in the fast-paced noise of 2020. Energy is another part of the world going through some huge changes right now…
What the US Election Means for Your Investments
After our own, the US political scene is probably the most important for Aussie investors. So, what does this year’s US election in less than two months mean for your investment strategy? Let’s have a look…
The Money Magnets — Finding Value in ASX-Listed Rare Earths Miners
Magnets, who’d have thought they were so interesting /worrying? But potentially lucrative too! With a bit of luck, we’ll avoid the doomsday scenario of the magnetic field flipping, and instead find good…
Trump’s War on Everything: US Elections and Impact on Aussie Investors
I don’t think we’ve ever seen such an unpredictable market in terms of possible outcomes. And at the centre of this turbulent reality lies the presidency of Donald J Trump. Whatever happens, as an Aussie investor, it’s going to affect us more than most US elections…
Why Your Brain Is Fooling You on the Stock Market
We’re all being fooled, in a way. It’s all relative. You see, the stock market isn’t really going up. It just looks that way because the US Dollar is going down. Those falls correlate with a sustained rise in all sorts of other assets. From stock markets, to commodities, to gold and even bitcoin…
