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Investor Education · Managed Fund · 6 MIN READ

Yield vs Total Return: What Actually Matters for Long-Term Investors?

We invest for all sorts of reasons, but at the core, it’s to improve our financial lives – to afford the things we want or need in life. This is the reason why the terms ‘yield’ and ‘total return’ can be so important when you are choosing an investment – they are not interchangeable, though they are often confused for being so.

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16 July 2026

Trading Has Gone Digital. Investors Need to Slow Down

Technology has made investing easier than ever. Australian investors can now buy shares, compare ETFs, research managed funds, watch market videos, read fund updates and place trades from their mobiles.

Technology ETF Investor Education

13 July 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Introducing MOON: The Case for Space Tech

The global space industry is moving from episodic innovation to commercial scale. Falling launch costs, improving rocket reusability, and rising demand for satellite-enabled connectivity and data are changing the economics of space. Once a prestige domain defined by government-led missions, space is now an infrastructure layer for modern communications, geospatial intelligence, defence systems, and emerging compute applications.

Investment Themes ETF

8 July 2026

· Global X Research Team

· 9 MIN READ

The ESG Reset: Sustainability Trends Worth Knowing About

Sustainable investing has been through plenty of challenges of late. After a string of political and social backlashes, the return of a US president who appears to be opposed to creating a more sustainable future, a rise in greenwashing cases and a challenging period of relative performance, sustainable investing has become more demanding and, arguably, more useful.

ESG Investor Education Managed Fund ETF

8 July 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Trading Has Gone Digital. Investors Need to Slow Down

Technology has made investing easier than ever. Australian investors can now buy shares, compare ETFs, research managed funds, watch market videos, read fund updates and place trades from their mobiles.

Technology ETF Investor Education

13 July 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Introducing MOON: The Case for Space Tech

The global space industry is moving from episodic innovation to commercial scale. Falling launch costs, improving rocket reusability, and rising demand for satellite-enabled connectivity and data are changing the economics of space. Once a prestige domain defined by government-led missions, space is now an infrastructure layer for modern communications, geospatial intelligence, defence systems, and emerging compute applications.

Investment Themes ETF

8 July 2026

· Global X Research Team

· 9 MIN READ

The ESG Reset: Sustainability Trends Worth Knowing About

Sustainable investing has been through plenty of challenges of late. After a string of political and social backlashes, the return of a US president who appears to be opposed to creating a more sustainable future, a rise in greenwashing cases and a challenging period of relative performance, sustainable investing has become more demanding and, arguably, more useful.

ESG Investor Education Managed Fund ETF

8 July 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

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10 Quotes to Inspire the Investment Master Inside You

Investing wisdom tends to be hard-earned through experience, mistakes, and battle scars. But listening to the voices of current and past masters through time-tested quotes can help us sidestep some of the pain involved.

Investor Education Managed Fund ETF

27 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

How to Invest Like the Super Rich

The rich just keep getting richer. In Australia, the top 10% now control over 58% of national wealth, while the top 1% own almost half of the nation’s wealth.

Investor Education Asset Allocation ETF Managed Fund

25 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

Core-Satellite Investing: Resilient Portfolio Examples

The idea of separating a portfolio into core and satellite exposures has moved from institutional asset allocation frameworks into the mainstream toolkit of retail investors. Its appeal lies in its apparent simplicity. A stable, low-cost core provides broad, diversified market exposure, while smaller satellite allocations pursue incremental returns.

Investor Education ETF Managed Fund

19 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

Decision Fatigue in Investing: How Too Much Choice Leads to Poor Returns

We’ve all been there. Standing in the supermarket aisle, trying to make sense of the vast number of products available to us in every single category. Does a cheaper toothpaste mean it’s less effective? We think through the benefits of saving money by buying products on sale versus a vast number of other micro-decisions that collectively drive our final choice.

Investor Education Managed Fund ETF

18 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

The ETF Innovation Cycle: Why the Next Hot Fund May Warrant Caution

We all know the long list of benefits of investing in ETFs, but the passive fund boom has reached the stage where narratives can sometimes reign supreme. The risk is that the recent wave of ETF launches, particularly in thematic, single-stock, options-enhanced, and actively managed strategies, is partially shaped by investor demand for exposure to recent winners rather than enduring sources of return.

Investor Education ETF Investment Themes

13 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

Are you Financially Fit? A 10-Step Annual Health Check for Your Portfolio

There’s a persistent misconception among investors that portfolio construction is a set-and-forget exercise. But much like physical health, financial fitness depends on consistent, disciplined work. This is because portfolios drift, risks evolve, and market conditions change.

Investor Education ETF Managed Fund

11 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Why Shorting is a Bad Idea for Most Investors

In recent years, shorting has migrated from the realms of professional hedge fund management into reach of individual investors en masse. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

Managed Fund ETF Investor Education

6 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

Strategic Tailwinds: Why Momentum Investing is Not Performance Chasing

You may think of momentum as a basic strategy that involves buying whatever has gone up most recently. That would be unfair, though.

Investor Education ETF Managed Fund Investment Themes

4 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

The Longer-Term Consequences of the US–Israel–Iran War

By now, most of us have realised that the US-Israel-Iran war will have longer-term consequences beyond recent volatility. It’s accelerating a structural shift in global markets defined by tighter energy supply, more persistent inflation, and the fragmentation of trade and capital flows.

Macro Investor Education ETF Managed Fund

3 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

Want an Extra 1.5% p.a. in Returns? Why Investor Psychology Destroys More Wealth Than Fees

These days, most investors are well-trained to minimise their fund and ETF costs. It’s been drilled into their minds that an apparently small fund fee difference can create an enormous performance drag over the long term. Hence, management expense ratios, brokerage fees, and tax leakage dominate product comparisons and marketing narratives.

Investor Education Managed Fund ETF

28 Apr 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

Navigating Fixed Income Markets During a Chaotic Year

For bond investors, the first few months of 2026 have been chaotic to say the least. It has been a year in which duration, inflation sensitivity, and market structure have mattered again, often brutally.

Fixed Interest Managed Fund ETF Investor Education

22 Apr 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

The Major Shift in Fund Management Isn’t What You Think

The decade-long narrative in funds management has been that passive investing is winning at the expense of active management. It’s hard to argue with that. Fees have fallen, passive fund transparency has improved, and cost-focused investors have taken advantage of the opportunity.

ETF Managed Fund Investor Education

20 Apr 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

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Why investors are allocating more capital to ETFs

Why investors are allocating more capital to ETFs

In this presentation Marc Jocum from Global X covers: - Migration from high cost to low cost has been the key driver for ETFs. - Benefits of ETFs – liquidity, tax efficiency, transparency. - How ETFs can help with generating passive income for investors. - Green fatigue – declining popularity of ESG investing but still interest in thematic renewable energy plays. - More active ETFs coming to market but not attracting enough investor dollars. - ETF innovation areas such as digital assets, fixed income, thematics and smart beta.