Rising interest rates, falling house prices and persistent inflation may have left many Australians feeling pessimistic about the Australian economy, but not AMP Deputy Chief Economist Diana Mousina.
Most people’s experience of artificial intelligence has been the chatbot: ask a question, get an answer. That use is still growing. What is changing—and what matters for Contrarius’ Funds—is the next layer of demand.
Most people’s experience of artificial intelligence has been the chatbot: ask a question, get an answer. That use is still growing. What is changing—and what matters for Contrarius’ Funds—is the next layer of demand.
When you were attracted to the exciting world of investing, risk management probably wasn’t a primary drawcard. Worrying about all the things that could go wrong is at odds with the reasons most independent investors enjoy investing. Yet, the truth is it’s hard to succeed long term as an investor without mastering risk. So maybe it’s high time you turned this less-than-sexy skillset into an investment superpower.
For much of the past century, the path to success in Australia seemed clear: get a job, save a deposit, buy a house, and watch your equity grow. Home ownership wasn’t just financial security. It was a rite of passage, a social marker, a moral achievement.
Have you been thinking about switching your super lately? Maybe your adviser suggested it. Maybe your fund’s merging. Or maybe you’ve just started a new job and, instead of handing over the default super form to HR, you’d rather take control and choose a fund that actually stacks up for your future.
Savvy investors are always on the lookout for the proverbial canary in the coalmine, particularly when markets keep hitting all-time highs with seemingly unstoppable momentum.
For many Australians heading into retirement, the family home is more than a roof. It’s a lifeline, a legacy, and often the biggest financial asset they’ll ever own.
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.
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.
Non-bank lending has increasingly become an integral part of Australia’s financial system, serving a much-needed segment of the market. For investors, non-bank lending provides access to loans secured against assets which may generate income – for example, in the case of the asset being property, from the borrower’s mortgage repayments.
Retirement can be a surprisingly rewarding chapter, financially speaking. But only if you have a solid plan in place that covers not only your day-to-day expenses but also safeguards your wealth when the markets get volatile.
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.
You may have heard that ASIC is in the final stages of potentially allowing a competing stock exchange into the Australian market, long monopolised by the ASX. The potential new entrant is Cboe Australia, the Australian arm of Cboe Global Markets, a Chicago-based financial trading group. If they do enter the market, it spells change and opportunity for investors…