Articles by Simon Turner

How Commercial Property Investors Can Still Earn Solid Returns in a Higher-Rate Environment

Higher rates have historically spelt bad news for commercial property investors. With the RBA recently raising rates for the fourth time this year and 10-year government bond yields climbing to 5.4%, rising rates are indeed the main theme at play in this space.

Property Investor Education

21 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Is The AI Capex Boom Heading For Bust Street? What 180 Years Of Manias Suggest

This year, four American mega caps will spend US$730 billion on capex, most of it building out their AI infrastructure.

Technology ETF Investment Themes Investor Education

19 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 11 MIN READ

Is Stock Investing Dead? Why Most Stock Pickers Can’t Beat ETFs

Most of us have seen ourselves as stock pickers extraordinaire at some point in our investing journeys. The idea of investing in stocks is exciting, seductive even. After all, all you need to do is press buy and sell online and you could make yourself a fortune.

ETF Investor Education

14 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 9 MIN READ

6 ETF Secrets the Super-Rich Use to Their Advantage

Australia’s ETF industry is on fire.

ETF Investor Education

12 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Is This 1973 Again? Your Stagflation Survival Guide at a Time When It May Be Needed

October 2026 is a very different world in global markets to that of 2025. Brent crude is knocking on US$100 a barrel.

Macro Asset Allocation Commodities ETF Managed Fund Investor Education

7 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

What Happened to Shares When the US 10-Year Treasury Yield Hit 5% in the Past?

Global bond markets are imploding. The yield on the US 10-year Treasury recently hit 5%, its highest level since 2007.

Macro ETF Managed Fund Investor Education

5 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 9 MIN READ

The Bigger Picture - October 2026

They say that history doesn’t repeat itself, but it does tend to rhyme.

Macro Investor Education

4 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

The Rate Hikes Keep Coming: Should You Pay Down Your Mortgage or Keep Investing?

The RBA’s war against inflation continues unabated.

Investor Education Macro Asset Allocation ETF Managed Fund

2 Oct 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Beyond the Magnificent Seven: Turning Schroders’ Equity Lens into a Money-Making Strategy

Australian investors have spent three years facing an expensive global equity market, and a local one too concentrated in banks and miners to share fully in the technology boom.

Macro Investment Themes Investor Education ETF Managed Fund

30 Sept 2026

· Simon Turner

· 9 MIN READ

The Investing Advice Dragons’ Den’s Deborah Meaden Wishes More Women Knew

Most conversations about women and money open with a gap and close with a lecture.

Investor Education

28 Sept 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

What the US Treasury’s Yield Battle Means for Australian Investors

US Treasuries are dominating the headlines for all the wrong reasons. After the US Treasury announced that it will more than double the size of its long-bond buybacks, yields rose rather than fell. In other words, the world’s largest borrower told the market what it wanted, and the market said no.

Fixed Interest Macro ETF Investor Education

23 Sept 2026

· Simon Turner

· 10 MIN READ

The World Is Bigger Than Wall Street: How to Choose a Global Ex-US ETF

Here’s an investment truth that not everyone is focused on: when most Australian investors think they are diversifying globally, they are really just buying more US exposure.

Asset Allocation ETF Investor Education

21 Sept 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Articles by Simon Turner

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