Investment Articles & Insights

There must be something about the 20s. Just like the 1920s, the 2020s have been turbulent and full of contradictions, though hopefully the 2020s won’t end the same way. As investors watch economic and geopolitical risks increase, alongside an uptick in inflation forcing the hand of the RBA, some may wonder if a slowdown is in the future.

There’s a crossroads in the financial lives of most households when wealth growth is either ignited or postponed. It’s a single habit shift that’s simple, and far from glamorous.

Cryptocurrencies must surely be the most polarising asset class in the modern financial era. On the one hand, they promise decentralised finance, immutable digital money, and permissionless innovation.

This time of the year is always interesting due to the preponderance of investment outlooks that are penned in early-to-mid December. These publications wax lyrical on a variety of topics du jour but are often most useful in informing investors exactly where consensus expectations and biases lie across various asset classes. These publications are also slowly coming to grips with the new world order in geopolitics and how a seemingly structured 6-month view of the world can get blasted to smithereens in a few hours.