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Why Using Your $30,000 Concessional Super Cap Each Year Could Be One of the Best Investment Decisions You’ll Ever Make

Australia’s superannuation system is regarded as one of the most effective retirement savings structures in the world. Yet many investors are underutilising one of its most valuable features: the concessional contributions cap. For the 2025–26 financial year, Australians can contribute up to $30,000 of their pre-tax income into superannuation each year through employer contributions, salary sacrifice, or personal deductible contributions.

25 Mar 2026
 · 6 MIN READ

What Do Higher Oil Prices Mean for Markets?

Investors have long watched oil prices as a gauge of global inflation, corporate profitability, geopolitical risk, and consumer spending. When it moves sharply in one direction, it’s arguably one of the most heeded signals in the market. When it spikes, the news headlines often predict equity market turmoil. When it collapses, they are more focused on the likelihood of a global recession.

23 Mar 2026
 · 6 MIN READ

The Five Ways Smart Investors Sidestep the Biggest Mortgage Fund Risks

When investors think about consistent income and risk management, mortgage funds are usually not front of mind. After all, their association with residential mortgage-backed securities can deter investors who remain cautious following the US subprime crisis that triggered the GFC. Those investors should bear in mind that Australia’s far more tightly regulated market offers protection against many of the same issues.

19 Mar 2026
 · 7 MIN READ

Beyond Silicon: Why Photonics Could Become the Next Major Investment Theme

Every technological revolution eventually runs into a physical constraint. For AI, it’s becoming clear that bandwidth and energy are the main barriers the technology needs to navigate. The enormous computing clusters used to train and run modern AI models now consume staggering amounts of electricity and generate unprecedented data traffic between chips, servers and data centres.

18 Mar 2026
 · 6 MIN READ

Software risk or renaissance?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is driving a structural shift across the technology landscape. This transition has sparked recent fear regarding the long-term viability of traditional software vendors and their established business models. Much of this fear stems from the perceived disruptive threat of AI challengers and the falling cost of software development.

17 Mar 2026
 · Adrian Lu
 · 6 MIN READ

The Smarter Way to Spend Your Portfolio in Retirement

The ‘4% rule’ is one of the more widely quoted guidelines for investors approaching or during retirement. It was originally developed by financial planner William Bengen using historical market simulations which suggested retirees could withdraw 4% p.a. from their portfolios without exhausting their savings over a thirty-year retirement.

16 Mar 2026
 · 6 MIN READ

Sequencing Risk: Why Average Returns Don’t Matter

Investors are generally taught to focus on average returns as a gauge of investment success. This makes intuitive sense to most. Over the long run, developed market equities have delivered average returns of around 10% p.a. That solid result has reinforced the advice: stay invested, reinvest your dividends and compounding will do the heavy lifting for you.

9 Mar 2026
 · 6 MIN READ

The Water Is Slowly Warming: Systemic Risks Investors Are Underpricing

Most investors tend to think of systemic risk as something that arrives with a bang, like a banking crisis, a pandemic, or a war. Increasingly, the more realistic systemic dangers are slower to gauge and harder to price. They are an ominous set of interconnected and interacting stresses that have the potential to degrade the very conditions required for markets to compound at all.

4 Mar 2026
 · 8 MIN READ