Economics

Envisioning a post-pandemic future...

Envisioning a post-pandemic future...

The American mathematician Claude Shannon famously established a lower bound for the number of possible moves in a typical chess match: around 10120…

The trouble with intuition...

The trouble with intuition...

Cognitive bias has been of particular interest to the investing community and long lists of biases – confirmation bias, anchoring, the recency effect and dozens of others – are now the stock-in-trade of beginner investors worldwide…

Market Outlook Q&A

Market Outlook Q&A

AMP’s Dr Shane Oliver does Q&A (a worthwhile article)…

Don't be retiring when you're retired...

Don't be retiring when you're retired...

For many retirees, low-risk assets such as cash and government-backed bonds are often seen as the safest ways of protecting capital over the long term. Yet, depending on your broad retirement goals and tolerance for risk, putting all your eggs into one or two asset classes will most likely expose you to investment hazards over the long term…

Technical note: Re-balancing your portfolio out of COVID-19...

Technical note: Re-balancing your portfolio out of COVID-19...

Now is probably a good time for investors to ask the question of themselves and consider whether rebalancing was something they did or should have considered….