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Is AI Becoming a Bubble, or Just the Next Big Market Cycle?

The number of investors proclaiming they’ve made millions from AI infrastructure stocks is on the rise. That’s a dubious data point that’s surely synonymous with taxi drivers sharing the same hot stock picks near the peak of the market.

Simon TurnerHead of Content (CFA)

15 June 2026

What Consumer Sentiment Is Telling Us About the Australian Economy

Australian consumers are feeling mighty gloomy right now. It’s easy to understand why. The war in Iran, the sharp rise in fuel prices and the proposed removal of the capital gains tax discount has Australian households unusually worried about the future.

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8 June 2026

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

The Bigger Picture - June 2026

Read our latest market commentary, The Bigger Picture, which includes some timely investment lessons from Simon Turner's Camino experience in Portugal and Spain.

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5 June 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

The Bigger Picture - May 2026

April confirmed what markets had begun to suspect: the global macro backdrop has changed. Higher geopolitical risk is now structurally entrenched. Markets have quickly adjusted to this unfortunate new reality across all asset classes. Geopolitical risk has reasserted itself as a primary driver of energy prices, inflation expectations, and capital flows. Investors still anchored to the old world of low inflation, cheap money, and frictionless globalisation risk being structurally mispositioned.

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3 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

What Consumer Sentiment Is Telling Us About the Australian Economy

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8 June 2026

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

The Bigger Picture - June 2026

Read our latest market commentary, The Bigger Picture, which includes some timely investment lessons from Simon Turner's Camino experience in Portugal and Spain.

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5 June 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

The Bigger Picture - May 2026

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3 May 2026

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

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Is it Time to Worry Like Ray Dalio?

Ray Dalio has spent much of the past decade warning that investors are misreading reality. Markets, he argues, are telling one story in nominal terms and a very different one in real money terms. Asset prices may be rising, portfolios may look healthy, and indices may be hitting new highs, but measured against the true store of value, purchasing power, many investors are quietly going backwards.

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12 Jan 2026

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

Could 1929 Repeat as Per the New York Times Warning?

The four most dangerous words in finance have always been it’s different this time. Financial history is littered with stories of incidents and eras when investors en masse genuinely believed it was different that time. Those were times when the crowd collectively gulped down the Kool-Aid and wanted seconds.

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4 Dec 2025

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

The U.S. vs the Rest of the World

For more than a decade, it’s rarely been wrong to be long U.S. equities. The numbers are hard to argue with: the MSCI USA index has outperformed the MSCI World index by almost 50% over the past ten years. The longer term data is even more stark: U.S. stocks have risen from 30% of the MSCI World Index in the 1990s to 75% today. For all intents and purposes, U.S. stocks now dominate global equities.

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3 Dec 2025

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

The Innovation Game: China vs the U.S.

It’s hardly a secret that the countries who win the technology war will dominate the global economy. The US economy is living proof that technology leadership is the route toward economic dominance. But they are not the only superpower with the ambition of technology-led global domination. China is also aiming for technology leadership in the same market segments, such as artificial intelligence, robotics, electric vehicles, and semiconductors.

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19 Nov 2025

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

How the Rise of Day Trading is Rewiring the Market’s Structure

You may have come across the unique breed of individual known as a day trader in your travels. Their numbers have been on the rise for some time now, so much so that they’re reshaping the very architecture of markets along with the notion of price discovery. What was once the province of nimble derivatives players is now having systemic ramifications across global equity markets.

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22 Oct 2025

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

Asset Allocation Secrets: How to Solve a Problem Like China

When Beijing throttled exports of rare-earth magnets in April 2025, carmakers from Detroit to Wolfsburg panicked. Production lines halted. Procurement experts scrambled for stock. What looked like a trade tiff was, in fact, the visible edge of a very deliberate strategy, one that has been unfolding quietly for nearly a decade.

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8 Oct 2025

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

Riding the Liquidity Wave Without Wiping Out

If you’ve noticed a change in the way markets have been functioning in recent years, you’re not wrong. The exponential growth of U.S. money supply, fuelled by decades of deregulation, cheap debt, and increasingly aggressive central bank stimulus has arguably changed the very nature of investing.

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7 Oct 2025

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

Asset Allocation Secrets: The Impact of Shifting Demographics

Most investors think about demographics as a slow-moving structural force which is useful information, but doesn’t affect short term investment performance. However, over the next decade and beyond, demographics are likely to become a more prominent investment theme.

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30 Sept 2025

· Simon Turner

· 7 MIN READ

The Ever-Widening U.S. Wealth Gap & Its Global Ripple Effects

Ready to be shocked? The bottom half of American households, some 65 million families, now own just 2.5% of total U.S. wealth. And at the other end of the spectrum, the top 1% controls wealth that outstrips the bottom 50% by more than $US40 trillion.

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24 Sept 2025

· Simon Turner

· 5 MIN READ

Asset Allocation Secrets: Navigating Clear & Present Geopolitical Danger

If you follow the news, the world is probably feeling mighty unsafe right now, with geopolitical risks dominating the headlines. Of course, the media thrives on amplifying fear, so for investors the real question isn’t whether the news headlines are dramatic. That’s always the case. It’s whether the real geopolitical risks are material, and how they might affect investors’ portfolios looking forward.

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22 Sept 2025

· Simon Turner

· 8 MIN READ

Australia’s Economic Slide And How to Respond

There’s some sobering news to report. Despite being one of the world’s richest nations in personal wealth terms, Australia has slipped to 105th out of 145 countries in Harvard University’s Economic Complexity Index (ECI)

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25 Aug 2025

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

Don’t Drink Too Much of the Kool-Aid as Market Speculation Hits an Extreme

Something is in the air across global investment markets of late. It’s hard to mistake the smell: greed. Global stock markets are riding a wave of speculation not seen since the dotcom boom or the post-pandemic retail frenzy. From Wall Street to the ASX, risk appetite is back with a vengeance. So what’s a steady-handed, long-term investor to do in the face of so much speculation?

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4 Aug 2025

· Simon Turner

· 6 MIN READ

The economic outlook: global, national and local

Chief Economist at Australian Retirement Trust, Brian Parker, explains the economic outlook at the moment, from a global, national and local point of view which is followed by a Q+A session with the CEO of InvestmentMarkets, Angelina Wu.

The economic outlook: global, national and local

In this economic update from the Chief Economist at Suncorp Group, Paul Brennan covers: - History suggests a US soft landing will be hard to achieve, even with the Fed starting to ease this month. - Markets are not priced for a recession, even a mild one would likely see a material correction in share prices and other risk assets. - The Chinese economy is too weak to offset the effects of a US recession. - Australia faces a challenging 18 months, even if it avoids a recession, as inflation is limiting the RBA’s degrees of freedom and China isn’t coming to the rescue

The economic outlook: global, national and local

Chief Economist at Bendigo and Adelaide Bank, David Roberston, explains the economic outlook at the moment, from a global, national and local point of view which is followed by a Q+A session with the CEO of InvestmentMarkets, Angelina Wu.

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