Rate hikes on the horizon

Rate hikes on the horizon

Global bonds have faced terrible start to the year. The 6.2% decline in the Bloomberg Global Agg index is the worst start to the year since we have data from the early 1990s. And it is the third worst quarter on record since then. In Australia, the broad Australian...
A note on recent volatility

A note on recent volatility

Markets have been volatile recently. There has been a lot of challenging news. High inflation. High oil prices. Rate hikes. The end of quantitative easing. The start of quantitative tightening. Russia and Ukraine. Coronavirus. A diversified portfolio had few places to...