NEWS
A simple investing framework
With the number of headlines hitting the newswires on what feels like a minute-by-minute basis, it's easy to get lost in chasing data points. Instead, I believe that having a well-defined and broadly applicable framework to assess the...
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Oklahoma - Where Oil Futures Go to Die
The day oil died was Monday the 20th of April 2020 - for the first time in history the price of a novated futures contract CL00 for Crude Oil WTI went negative ("CLK20" ticker on the CME for May 2020). It got buried -$37.63 below ground,...
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Beware when the market and the economy are out of sync
Following its one-month 36 per cent decline from peak (20 February 2020) to its low (23 March 2020), the ASX200 has bounced 20 per cent. That's a return most investors would be happy with over a year. The question is whether such optimism...
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New Funds on Fundmonitors.com
Here are some of the latest additions to our database. Follow the links to view each fund's profile, where you'll have access to their offer documents, monthly reports, historical returns, performance analytics, rankings, research,...
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March 20 Insights
- Looking ahead
- Dynamic vs Static risk management
- Reviewing 1 year of the Darling Macro Fund
- Managing liquidity risk
- Contractual uncertainty
- Dynamic vs Static risk management
- Reviewing 1 year of the Darling Macro Fund
- Managing liquidity risk
- Contractual uncertainty
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Manager Insights | Cyan Investment Management
Australian Fund Monitors speaks with Dean Fergie from Cyan Investment Management about the current market conditions and how the investment team are navigating the Cyan C3G Fund through this tumultuous period.
The Cyan C3G Fund...
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Finding Defensive Funds in a Disorderly World | Loftus Peak & Delft Partners
Australian Fund Monitors' CEO, Chris Gosselin, speaks with Robert Swift from Delft Partners and Alex Pollak from Loftus Peak to get their perspectives on the current economic environment.
Loftus Peak is a global fund manager...
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One Hundred Years of Solitude? (A follow up to 'Love in the time of COVID-19')
With a bit of luck, continued good behaviour, and the arrival of more medical equipment, we can see an end to isolation. From here-on, it might not be 100 days, let alone 100 years. People will be glad to be out and about and back to work....
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Trial and Error: What SARS-CoV-2 and COVID 19 Exit Planning have in common
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is the latest pandemic virus to have blighted us. The process of genetic trial and error created yet another exceptionally potent pathogen. As strong social distancing measures are clearly succeeding at 'flattening the...
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COVID-19: There Are No Monetarists in Foxholes
It is important to remember that markets have often faced great uncertainty about the future; sitting in 1932, your future was uncertain; in 1940 ahead of WW2; in the GFC lows of 2008. So the event changes, but the reaction path is...
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