As markets absorb the implications of Donald Trump's return to the White House, investors are increasingly concerned by his promises to implement new tariffs on imported goods.
Tariffs & Markets: What History Tells Us About What May Lie Ahead
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Will Tariffs Trump New Zealand’s Economic Future?
President Donald Trump's tariffs of 25% on Canadian and Mexican goods, and similar proposed rates for China and the European Union in the weeks ahead, represent more than just economic policy shifts.
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Hedonic Treadmills Have No Finish Line
As Dan Solin (author of ‘The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read’) astutely observes, "The financial media is not your friend. Its primary goal is to separate you from your money."[I]
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To Bit or Not to Bit
What are investors to make of all this media attention around Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies? What place, if any, should bitcoin play in a diversified portfolio? Recently, the value of bitcoin has risen sharply, but that is the past. What about its future value?
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Slashed dividends | Covid-19 Special Focus
Dividend stocks are a staple of every income investor, and they can play an important role in any portfolio, regardless of age and financial circumstances. But it is very much possible that dividend investors can fall into the trap of hindsight bias if they are not careful and sufficiently diversified.
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Lessons to learn from the current bear market | Covid-19 Special Focus
Stressful events such as the current bear market are an unpleasant reality, with many investors trying to wish away negatives results in the hope they become a distant memory, but they also provide incredibly important lessons for investors and financial advisers.
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Don't miss the next Super Moon | Covid-19 Special Focus
The largest, brightest Super Moon of 2020 rose in the night sky on 7 April over hushed cities, stilled factories and countries in lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak that has affected close to two million people so far.
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Dark side with the brightest possibilities | Covid-19 Special Focus
Just like the dark side of the Moon, “everyone is selling” is a technically flawed statement. It’s important to remember that investing is a long-term game and panic selling can do more harm than good to an investment journey.
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Navigating the current ‘Infodemic’ | Covid-19 Special Focus
With so much to decipher on a daily basis, between the stock market and the number of new COVID 19 cases confirmed, it is at times like these that our worst behavioural impulses come to pass due to the overload of information.
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Pandemic, the markets, and your money | Covid-19 Special Focus
There is currently a lot going on: coronavirus (COVID-19) concerns, market volatility, interest rate cuts, cancelled meetings, oil supply war and the upcoming US election. In short, COVID-19 presented a new variable, one not on anyone’s radar. So what does this mean for your investments, your business and for the economy?
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Watch out for those pirate funds
A few minutes into trading on the third of February 2020 the ASX released a list of companies whose securities had been suspended from trading for an unacceptable period of time. It was removing their listings from the exchange. Why? Various reasons, but most had gone bust. Many were now shells.
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The year that wasn’t
A routine task for financial journalists at this time of year is to write a summary of the year in markets and to survey economists on their expectations for the coming year. But the truth is the market already knows all of that. The headlines, and the views of all the economists and analysts and journalists, are already reflected in today’s prices. They can make educated guesses about the outlook, but they’re still guesses.
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