The world is not enough
Market Update: 18 September 2020 As we go past 30m COVID cases globally and sadly not far from hitting 1m deaths, the Central Banks are ever looking at ways to
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Begin Again
Market Update: 14 September 2020 Although we haven’t gotten anywhere with Brexit and the US election is a coin toss, the one glimmer of hope is the restart of the
(It’s not) OK, Computer
Market Update: 11 September 2020 A continuation for tech to consolidate has pretty much left most share markets lower/close to flat for the week and whilst the majority of the
Who’s in the driver’s seat?
Market Update: 7 September 2020 A very strong payrolls and even better drop in unemployment (8.4% vs mkt expecting 9.8%) out of the US. Even my old favourite – the
The recession we didn’t have to have
Market Update: 4 September 2020 OK the news reporters love a good market rout to sell their story… it brings interest, revenue and can be given a follow-up story to
Don’t bite the hand that you feed
Market Update: 31 August 2020 Again China is implementing ways to gain revenge on Australia after being part of the conglomerate of nations wanting an investigation by the WHA into
The art of deals or no deals
Market Update: 24 August 2020 Besides Trump finally striking a deal for a 25Bln support package for US Postal Services – to allow for Postal Votes which in a way,
Ameri-go-round
Market Update: 21 August 2020 The markets have gone full circle this week dominated by the US…. the Fed Minutes disappointed with no intervention in the longer dated bonds and
Post-Election-poned
Market Update: 17 August 2020 As we near elections in the US, the markets start considering a world with a Democratic win – given Betfair has Biden at $1.70 vs
Private Equity Investing: The fallacy of mean reversion in FX markets
A common misconception is that currencies are mean-reverting and, therefore, hedging is a poorly-allocated cost. The problem is: most of the time, we either don’t have time to wait for
AFAMA depreciation
Market Update: 10 August 2020 If you were to Google this (or begrudgingly on Microsoft‘s Bing) on your Apple phone, or ask someone on Facebook or even search for a
Optimism of the ISM
Market Update: 4 August 2020 As ISM in the US comes out far better than expected at 54.2, US stocks continue to make new highs. The correlation for AUD to