The number of investors proclaiming they’ve made millions from AI infrastructure stocks is on the rise. That’s a dubious data point that’s surely synonymous with taxi drivers sharing the same hot stock picks near the peak of the market.
Australian consumers are feeling mighty gloomy right now. It’s easy to understand why. The war in Iran, the sharp rise in fuel prices and the proposed removal of the capital gains tax discount has Australian households unusually worried about the future.
If you’re like most investors, you’re probably overwhelmed by the constant availability of real-time data, macro narratives, and algorithmically amplified sentiment. It’s a lot, and it’s coming at us twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. Worse, our emotions drive us to react to all this noise by sabotaging our investment plans at exactly the wrong moments.
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The 2026–27 Federal Budget was certainly a surprise to many. At its heart was philosophical change rather than the routine fiscal update the population has become used to.
The Albanese Government’s proposed overhaul of capital gains tax (CGT), alongside restrictions on negative gearing and new discretionary trust rules, represents the most significant tax shift in decades.
Investing wisdom tends to be hard-earned through experience, mistakes, and battle scars. But listening to the voices of current and past masters through time-tested quotes can help us sidestep some of the pain involved.
The rich just keep getting richer. In Australia, the top 10% now control over 58% of national wealth, while the top 1% own almost half of the nation’s wealth.
The idea of separating a portfolio into core and satellite exposures has moved from institutional asset allocation frameworks into the mainstream toolkit of retail investors. Its appeal lies in its apparent simplicity. A stable, low-cost core provides broad, diversified market exposure, while smaller satellite allocations pursue incremental returns.
We’ve all been there. Standing in the supermarket aisle, trying to make sense of the vast number of products available to us in every single category. Does a cheaper toothpaste mean it’s less effective? We think through the benefits of saving money by buying products on sale versus a vast number of other micro-decisions that collectively drive our final choice.
We all know the long list of benefits of investing in ETFs, but the passive fund boom has reached the stage where narratives can sometimes reign supreme. The risk is that the recent wave of ETF launches, particularly in thematic, single-stock, options-enhanced, and actively managed strategies, is partially shaped by investor demand for exposure to recent winners rather than enduring sources of return.
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