With our own construction industry grappling with challenges and vulnerabilities highlighted by a wave of recent high-profile collapses, investors – especially private credit investors – you need to sit up, pay attention and make some decisions. Continue…

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Overnight, U.S. President Trump backflipped on punitive global tariffs, bringing them down to a universal 10 per cent except for China, against which tariffs were raised from 104 per cent to 125 per cent. 

Equity markets breathed a sigh of relief but is the coast clear? Continue…

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One of my favourite movies of all time was a 1994 commercial flop. A comedy directed by the otherwise hugely successful Coen Brothers. The Hudsucker Proxy follows Norville Barnes, a naive young man from Muncie, Indiana, who arrives in New York City with big dreams and an invention. Barnes lands a low-level mail-room job at Hudsucker Industries just as the company’s founder, who is also its president, commits suicide by jumping out of a window. Continue…

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I joined Philip Clark on ABC Nightlife to unpack the recent market volatility, sparked by Donald Trump’s latest tariff announcements – and what’s next for equities, interest rates, and global markets. Continue…

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In this week’s video insight, we launch our two-part series on ‘investing in gold’. In this episode I explore commentary from a few prevalent gold bulls. Continue…

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Given the ructions in markets lately – addressing current market conditions, sentiment and their drivers is helpful and warranted.

It was the depth and scale of U.S. President Donald Trump’s much-anticipated tariffs that caught investors by surprise, as well as the tariffs’ calibration to trade deficits and the ambiguity around U.S. willingness to negotiate swiftly. Continue…

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In 2023 and 2024, I wrote several blog posts positing that Tesla may be just another car company. A couple of example articles can be found here and here.

The share price of Tesla on the date of those two blog posts was about US$274.00 and US$171.00, respectively. The price of Tesla shares, thanks in no small part to Trump’s election as U.S. President and Elon Musk’s pre-election support, subsequently rallied to over US$400.00 per share, and after a more recent 50 per cent decline, the price as of 7 April 2025 is US$239.43. Continue…

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For decades, it was wise to heed Warren Buffet’s observation that gold has no utility and that over any 100-year period, you will be better off owning income-producing assets. Gold, he said, can only be looked at and fondled. I have previously noted that gold is merely a bet on increasing fear and anxiety, and given these are sentiments, their shifts can be rapid and impossible to predict. Continue…

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