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Robert Swift takes a look at the current situation around inflation and looks at how we can invest to maintain our spending power in real terms. A must read for those now receiving next to nothing for their bonds and fixed income.
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As long-term investors in Taiwan we prefer to look at the investment flows by Taiwanese companies into China as an indicator of the state of relations and not media speculation regarding the prospect for military hostilities. If China were going to invade Taiwan it would have happened years ago. The financial relationship between China and Taiwan is strong and growing. It is that financial relationship which will ultimately guide China and Taiwan to a sensible compromise regarding political differences.
Robert Swift takes a look at the US corporate results season to provide a quick update on corporate America. He has noticed a similarity in the commentary coming out of a lot of big companies; is it worth worrying about or should we listen to the Fed?
We wrote about the need for a U-turn in macro policy thinking recently. It looks like we are getting one; or just as important for market psychology, other investors think we are getting one - a shift that is. Read on to learn what investors should consider in this context.
This week we would like to revisit the topic of asset prices. More specifically, in reference to the latest RBA meetings and the IMF World Economic Outlook. A topic that is particularly important to us in perhaps elucidating whether we are in the beginning of (another?) bull market or in the final stretches of irrational exuberance. Most importantly, what does this mean for your investing going forward?
By now most of the readership, we assume, has heard about the Archegos Capital fiasco. A situation that, last Friday, shook global equity markets. A series of events wiping out close to 50% of the market capitalisation of Discovery, more than 50% of Viacom, 20% off Baidu to name a few, not to mention the fact that it has led to an increased level of volatility in global markets. But, just in case you haven’t and you are an investor who has been scratching his/her head at what has been happening in terms of price action, read on.
Robert Swift takes a look at the shift in language coming from central bankers and finance ministers and, more importantly, the implications for equities and bonds.
Every generation sees certain trends that go beyond the cyclical. Trends that encapsulate a fundamental change to the way things are done. When we say secular growth, we are referring to structural changes taking place in the economy; from e-commerce fundamentally changing the ways in which people shop to QE that has ushered in a decade long growth story in equities, in particular the higher growth names. In this piece we want to put forward a few such trends that are likely to fundamentally shift both the economic and investment landscape over the next ten to twenty years.
This week we would like to take a look at Greensill Capital and its spectacular fall from grace. Its fall, preceded by another yet bigger collapse in the form of German payment processor Wirecard, has raised many questions around the ability of regulators to keep up with changes in modern finance and left the German regulator in a shambolic situation.
Last week Sid Ruttala provided us with a list of things not to worry about, this week he goes the other way and takes a look at a couple of things to keep a eye on given the current market environment.
Robert Swift takes a look at what happened in February in markets and touches on some of the adjustments made within his portfolio. This is an excerpt from Robert's Global High Conviction report for February 2021.
Here we are, February of 2021 and it has been an interesting start to the year. For those of you that have read previous articles, you know I have been one of those outliers that has been predicting inflation and the tremendous risks posed by the bond market for a good 18-months. So, in keeping with that theme, I shall try and grapple with the interesting trading action so far. It started with a sell-off in treasuries, followed promptly by a sell-off in equities and precious metals with inflation jitters coming back into the equation.
This week we continue with the thematic of mobility and look at another adjacent category, semiconductors. In particular where we see the market going and why it remains an important aspect to look at especially when one thinks off the EV market. For the more technically apt, please forgive if the following seems a tad layman-like, given that this author's particular forte is economics.
Sometimes you get a piece of good advice early in your career, from someone older, that you respect. You should remember that advice and follow it. One of these is often “never say we told you so; it just irritates”. We’re going to break that rule; in a polite way.
This week we continue with the thematic of the future of mobility. We have previously written about the incredible government appetite for renewables from a policy perspective, EV being a key component of this. This also happens to be the reason why we here at TAMIM believe that this is a space that investors simply can’t afford to ignore.
If something is too hard or whacky then there is a tendency to ignore it and hope it goes away. The recent bizarre price moves in GameStop and AMC and other ‘marginally solvent’ companies is just such a case in point. However, ‘hope’ is not a strategy and it can pay to rummage in the information cellar where you might find something useful / or learn a lesson? So we’ll have a stab at making sense of what looks like nonsense. We might come to a useful conclusion?
What an eventful year 2020 was! But with a change in administration Stateside we thought we should take a moment to dig out the crystal ball and try to grapple with what this means for us in the year to come and the markets in general. As with all predictions, please take this with a grain of salt.
This week, in our final article of the year, we make some predictions going into 2021. Hopefully I end up with a better score than the 3.5/5 for 2020. I wouldn’t bet on it, but again this is the investor in me looking at my surroundings and trying to come up with probabilities. So without much ado (not about nothing), here are five more.
Time to review 2020 and prognosticate on 2021. Around this time last year we wrote a piece titled "2019 A Surprisingly Good Year for Risk Assets: 2020 Outlook," time to do it all again.
At the beginning of this year, I had made five rather bold predictions and this week we thought it timely to revisit them. With hindsight, some of them were downright comical and some right but for perhaps the wrong reasons. Whatever maybe the case, the one thing that as investors we should always seek to do is to constantly assess and reassess our assumptions as facts change.
Recent weeks have highlighted the rather uncomfortable and somewhat frosty relationship between our nation and our largest trading partner. Hence we thought it might be pertinent to revisit the topic, something we first elaborated upon in the infancy of the Trump administration and his “trade war.” Much has changed and the situation continues to evolve.
Over the past few weeks we have tried to elaborate upon what is turning out to be one of the most interesting and dynamic secular growth stories of the coming decades and perhaps century. And so, we would like to use this article as a conclusion of sorts, namely addressing the why? And more importantly, why now?
In light of the US Election results (or lack thereof) we have pulled some excerpts from a US Election webinar featuring Robert Swift run by Australian Fund Monitors.
This week we visit our second category within the mobility thematic, that is autonomy. A topic that is arguably more important than the general electrification of transport, we arrive at three key considerations for those wishing to take advantage of the thematic.
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