The Wide Lens

Just six months ago, The Economist ran a striking cover: a roll of $100 bills shaped like a rocket, blasting into space under the...

In 2016 I bought a very expensive Santa suit. My wife wasn't happy about it - because it was so expensive. But I knew it would be worth...

Inflation is cooling, yet the cost of living remains high. Annual inflation is down to about 2% yet cost of living is up about 22% since...

I'm a glass half full kinda guy - I'd say I'm an optimist - I see learnings, not failure. And I try and instil this into my children. To...

Donald Trump is the 47th US president. The US stock market (S&P 500) crossed 6,000 for the first time earlier this week. And Bitcoin...

A lot can happen in one year, and a lot can be forgotten after one year. The US stock market is up 26.41% YTD, and 35.91% over the last...

I was on Ausbiz on Monday  talking about the US election and what investors can expect. And it's finally here. I hear a lot of people...

I was in Noosa last week for an investment conference. Each morning, I would run along the beach for about 6 km, take a dip in the water,...

We're almost one third of the way through Q4 of 2024. And what is historically a relatively volatile month, the market has so far been...

The stock market bottomed out on 12 October 2022, and the weekend gone marked the two-year anniversary of this bull market - yes, it's a...

My kids discovered Google Finance whilst we were waiting to board a flight home from Ho Chi Minh last week. They were fascinated by the...

Throughout the week we've seen a number of data points released out of the US, pointing to a slowdown in the jobs market, and the...

Financial crisis, bear markets, and panics, they all feel the same. Our primitive human mind is hard wired to safeguard and to protect...

The time has come for policy to adjust. The direction of travel is clear, and the timing and pace of rate cuts will depend on incoming...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the market decline  and why I thought we had a little more to go. Turns out I was right - not to brag....

Perspective is so important, yet it's not easy. We get so caught up in our own world that it's hard to see the forest for the trees. Last...

The Paris 2024 Summer Olympics kicked off over the weekend, and markets we're in a celebratory mood. The S&P 500 clawed back some of its...

I spent the school holidays in Bali with my family. We travelled through Sanur, Uluwatu, Ubud, and Canggu. We'd never been to Uluwatu...

I started investing just after the dot com bust, right through the commodity boom. I was buying individual stocks and names, mining...

I've been thinking a lot about markets lately, the cross currents, the outlook, the implications, the opportunities. I feel as though the...