Are you waiting on the sidelines for the right moment to invest if markets head south? If your answer is yes, are you actually ready? You might think you are but there are things that you can do to make sure that if the opportunity arises you are truly ready and are not wasting days with things ...

The Australian stock market is a case study of how regional nuances can shape investment outcomes. Say you were a financial advisor in the US, Japan or Europe. If you put a retail client into 50% miners and banks, and they tanked, you might lose your licence. In Australia, that is just the market:

Getting your investment ownership structure wrong can be a costly mistake. One of the very first and most important steps in investing is to choose what type of ownership structure you are going to use.

Smart strategies to safeguard income when interest rates dip International shares have a poor reputation for tax effectiveness. That doesn't match the reality. Yes, international share dividends are not as good as franked dividends. But they are much better than unfranked dividends or interest from ...

Nucleus Wealth is excited to invite you to the IMAP Direct Indexing Conference. This will be an invaluable session for anyone using ETFs who wants more customisation and control over their investments. Direct indexing has been around in the US for over a decade but is just emerging in Australia. Be ...

I've spoken about the next couple of reporting seasons being crucial in working out the path for stocks. Earnings have been coming in negative for the last few quarters, but forecasts imply an earnings boom.

One of the recent mega-trends in the healthcare space has been the evolution of a new class of weight-loss drugs that purport to be the magic pill that the pharmaceutical industry has been seeking to address the obesity epidemic. There are obvious implications for the stocks involved. And, there is ...

The conflict in the Middle East has caused oil prices to surge. This could lead to a cost-push inflation spiral: higher inflation --> higher wage demands --> higher inflation. Or, it could lead to demand destruction as higher fuel costs squeeze household budgets. For investors, working out ...

Correlation doesn't equal causation. But sometimes it does.

ESG investing is a complicated area with many ethical dilemmas and moral decisions to be made.