During the year to June, our Core Australian equity portfolio significantly outperformed the benchmark, ranking in the top 5 large-cap Australian funds, bolstered again by our defensive and underweight resources and bank stock exposures. In the most recent month, these weights led to slight ...

In his book, The Ulysses Contract, Michael Kemp explores some of the innate behaviors, biases and challenges humans face as investors. And what you can do about them. He sits down to explore these and other things with Nucleus Wealth Chief Operating Officer, Shelley George, in this episode of ...

It has been a volatile 6 months in macroeconomic outlooks. A year ago, it looked as if Australia was lagging behind the US economically; a few months ago that narrative reversed. And then it flip-flopped several more times. In this week's podcast, Nucleus Wealth's Chief Investment Officer Damien ...

Extraordinary scenes in Russia this week as a coup put a significant dent into Putin's aura of political invincibility. We examine the aftershocks for macroeconomics, political stability and investments. In particular, we look at the investment landscape for defense contractors, which ones benefit, ...

For the last few months we have been talking about how the soft data (i.e. surveys and forward looking) has been looking recessionary but the hard data has been surprisingly firm. That has started to change, and in the hard data we are seeing sweeping signs of a slowdown. In this week's podcast ...

Grant Williams is a titan of the financial podcasting world, interviewing the biggest names in the industry and examining the core macro arguments dominating discussions. We take the opportunity this week to quiz Grant and see where he sits on some of the biggest macro themes. Agenda: Is there a ...

Jobs continue to defy naysayers There are a lot of signs that a recession is coming. Bankruptcies are back with a vengeance. Most of the suite of raw materials and commodities have plunged in price. Transport costs are down more than half. Credit growth is running at 20-year lows. Forward surveys ...

We have seen a raft of comments and discussions from the governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia. The message has been disjointed. What has come through, whether he realises it or not, is the fundamental disconnect between government policy and central bank policy. On one hand, Australia is being ...

During May, our Australian equity portfolio significantly outperformed the benchmark, bolstered again by our defensive and underweight resources and bank stock exposures. Over the last year, our Australian portfolio has outperformed its benchmark by almost 9% on the back of that theme. Our ...

NVidia hit a market capitalisation of USD1 trillion this week after a stunning set of earnings upgrades. Data centre revenue, which is the largest part of NVidia's revenues, is expected to double over the next 90 days. But revenues have been volatile. For example, NVidia's gaming revenues halved ...