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Fixed Income Trade Offs

Fixed income is often described as the defensive part of an investment portfolio. For many investors, it is expected to provide regular income, reduce reliance on share market returns and help smooth the overall investment journey. That description is broadly right. But it can also create an unrealistic expectation that fixed income investing is simple, safe and always stable.

Fixed InterestManaged Fund
24 Aug 2026
 · Daryl Wilson
 · 7 MIN READ

Fixed Income Trade Offs

Fixed income is often described as the defensive part of an investment portfolio. For many investors, it is expected to provide regular income, reduce reliance on share market returns and help smooth the overall investment journey. That description is broadly right. But it can also create an unrealistic expectation that fixed income investing is simple, safe and always stable.

Fixed InterestManaged Fund
24 Aug 2026
 · Daryl Wilson
 · 7 MIN READ

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What the bull-bear spread is telling us

Most of the world’s great investors are experts at using market sentiment to their advantage. “It is wise for investors to be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful.” Warren Buffet Whilst it’s tempting for investors to be confident they understand market sentiment based upon market volatility and direction, there’s a simpler, more accurate, and often over-looked way to gauge market sentiment.

Investor EducationMacro
26 May 2023
 · Simon Turner
 · 3 MIN READ

What all great investors have in common

Benjamin Graham lost around 70 per cent of his wealth in the Wall Street crash of 1929. Despite that, nearly a century later, he’s still regarded as the father of Value Investing. To provide some perspective, Graham fared better than the average punter. Within three years of ‘Black Thursday’ in 1929, the overall market had fallen by 89.2 per cent. Fortunes had been lost, and the Great Depression was well underway.

Investor Education
26 May 2023
 · Tom Elisson
 · 7 MIN READ

Are Blue Chips Still Blue?

32 years ago, everybody who held a Commonwealth Bank account received a hefty document in the mail. It was an invitation to become a shareholder in the bank, which until then had been government-owned. The minimum investment was 400 shares at a price of $5.40 – a total of $2,160. The canny people who wrote out a cheque for $2,160 and put their share certificate in the bottom drawer are today sitting on a holding worth around $52,500. That’s a 1,700 per cent return.

Investor EducationShares
25 May 2023
 · Tom Elisson
 · 7 MIN READ

Profiting from the energy transition

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which is leading the global scientific assessment of climate change, estimates that human activities have already caused around 1°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels. If global warming continues at the current rate, the IPCC estimates it will reach 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels between 2030 and 2052.

ESGMining, Resources & EnergyInvestor Education
22 May 2023
 · Simon Turner
 · 7 MIN READ

Is now a good time to consider residential real estate funds?

Australian investors are well versed in the long list of ways to invest in commercial property. This explains why the commercial property investment sector is so large. The value of unlisted property trusts is estimated at $227 billion, while the listed property trust sector is valued at $144 billion (Property Council of Australia). Despite the commercial property sector’s fund raising success, few investors are aware of the emerging options to invest in funds in the residential real estate sector.

PropertyInvestor Education
18 May 2023
 · Simon Turner
 · 5 MIN READ

Apple’s fintech play gets bigger

Apple's high-yield savings account racked up almost $1 billion in deposits within four days of its launch in April. The 4.15 per cent annual yield with no minimum balance requirement is undoubtedly a draw for its more than 2 billion users, but what is truly noteworthy is the overwhelming response at a time of growing distrust in the banking sector.

FintechSharesInvestment Themes
18 May 2023
 · Ankita Rai
 · 4 MIN READ

Risky Business – the 2023 Federal Budget

Economic forecasts are rarely accurate. Any Federal Treasurer will tell you that. Just four years ago, then-Treasurer Josh Frydenberg forecast a surplus of $7.1 billion for 2019/20. After paying for the unexpected impacts of bushfires and the Covid crisis, that predicted surplus turned into an $85 billion deficit.

MacroInvestor Education
12 May 2023
 · Tom Elisson
 · 6 MIN READ

Is investing in shares really gambling?

Nearly twenty years ago, 34-year-old Londoner Ashley Revell made a bet few of us would ever even consider. He sold everything he owned – his house, his car, even his clothes – and took a flight to the United States where he checked into a Las Vegas casino. The he headed for the Roulette wheel, where he gambled every cent he’d scraped together (a total of US$135,300 to be exact) on a single bet. Revell put his chips on red, his reasoning being he had a 50:50 chance of winning. To some people, that sort of punt is no different to investing in shares. But as we’ll see, it’s a totally different scenario.

SharesInvestor Education
26 Apr 2023
 · Tom Elisson
 · 10 MIN READ

The chatbot that shook the world

ChatGPT, the AI bot that took the internet by storm, is getting better and smarter. From a standing start in November, it has grown to more than 153 million users.* The fastest-growing consumer application is also the most intelligent yet, with Microsoft claiming its latest update is "strikingly close to human-level performance."

TechnologySoftwareInvestor Education
17 Apr 2023
 · Ankita Rai
 · 4 MIN READ
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