Will the Australian Dollar (AUD) continue to climb in 2021? In today’s investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller discuss where next for the Australian dollar. On the agenda: Global and Australian growth Interest rate differentials Investor sentiment and technicals The relative

In the inaugural episode of our MB Fund Empower Podcast, MB Fund’s Head of Operations Shelley George is joined by our Head of Advice Tim Fuller to talk about all things Superannuation Empowering you to develop money and investing as tools for living your fullest life. Can’t make it to the live series?  Catch up

This week our attention turns to global stocks post covid rebuild, as investment professionals the world over mull the opportunities and pitfalls of the various sectors in the market on the search for reliable growth. With traditional defensive stocks not currently behaving defensively, the new challenge lies in optimising global coverage that positions for growth

 In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller investigate the question “Are we experiencing a Commodity Supercycle?” View the presentation slides: https://nucleuswealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/supercycle.pdf As the world is tiptoeing its way out of the coronavirus pandemic, the consequent surge in the price of

 In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller are joined by Australian economist, Professor Ross Garnaut to talk about his latest publication ‘Reset: restoring Australia after the pandemic recession‘.   The pandemic has brought immense disruption to the Australian way of life,

Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen,  Head of Advice Tim Fuller and Adrian Redlich, Chairman of the Merricks Capital Investment Commitee give the rundown on seeking value in alternative markets. You can find Adrian at Merricks Capital On the agenda: An overview of the crisis – vaccines, recovery, asset classes to watch Real estate

MB Fund’s Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Head of Advice Tim Fuller and Economist Dr Cameron Murray discuss the drivers behind Australian Housing’s recent upwards roar. You can find Cameron at Fresh Economic Thinking On the agenda: Strongest growth in property prices since 2003 Mortgage & Auction markets are booming

MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen and Head of Advice Tim Fuller discuss if record low interest rates, pandemic level monetary and fiscal stimulus along with surging asset prices translate into long term inflationary pressures On the agenda: Inflation factors: commodity prices, supply disruptions, structural & cyclical factors Deflation

MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller lay out the Bull Case for Investment Markets in 2021. Global equities, as of this week, have gained around 70% since the nadir of the market falls in march — an outcome few would have predicted during a global pandemic. But will

MB Fund’s Head of Advice Tim Fuller, Head of Operations Shelley George, and Associate FInancial Adviser Christopher Whaler dive into the art of financial advice On the agenda: When do you need advice? What can advice offer you? What is the process for advice? What options are there for advice? Why pay for ongoing service?

In today’s investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen and Head of Advice Tim Fuller are joined by Co-Portfolio Manager of Resonant Asset Management, Nick Morton to determine if Gamestop (GME) spells game over for hedge funds You can find Nick at https://www.resonantam.com.au/ Agenda: Reddit targets: Gamestop + others The future for short

MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Head of Advice Tim Fuller and Managing Director of Global Mining Research, David Radclyffe, investigate if Mining is experiencing a short-term blip, or a structural boom You can find David at http://www.globalminingresearch.com/ On the agenda today: Gold: relationships between gold miners & gold price Iron ore & Lithium:

MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith and Head of Advice Tim Fuller ask the trillion dollar question: Will Biden trigger a market boom or market bust? President Joe plans to begin immediately unwinding his predecessor’s policies on immigration, climate and other issues on Wednesday with at least 15 executive

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Operations Shelley George are joined by prolific trader, avid podcaster, and the Chief Derivative Market Strategist of Big Picture Trading, Patrick Ceresna. We wanted to bring Patrick on to get a trader’s perspective of current macroeconomic and trading trends such as:

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Operations Shelley George investigate how high Bitcoin can go. We give a background on the technology used in Bitcoin, a breakdown of what private money (like Cryptocurrency) is, how and why Bitcoin is valued, and analysis of what this means for

Government bonds have long been a mainstay in a properly balanced portfolio but need to be employed with caution. As we have seen over the last few years, the cratering of central bank interest rates has seen some remarkable opportunity for those with a well constructed portfolio. To share her thoughts on the topics, today

Australian property prices are set to boom in 2021. Why? Australia’s successful elimination of COVID-19, the economy’s better than expected recovery, and the unprecedented fiscal and monetary support have stars aligned for strong Australian property price growth in 2021 In today’s episode, MB Fund’s Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen and

This week we turn our attention to the previously unloved (and underperforming) but now surging area of the stock market, value stocks. The question on everyone’s mind; will it last? So join us in today’s investment webinar, as MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Operations Tim Fuller hypothesise if the great

With the heavy amounts of Government stimulus being provided worldwide this year in response to Coronavirus’ economic impacts, we wanted to get the perspective of Adelaide University’s Dr. Steven Hail as to if this stimulus was essentially MMT in all but name Our Agenda includes: • Quick background to MMT • MMT and Inflation expectations

We discuss the history Australian-Chinese relations, China using this as a foundation for creeping influence into Australia, and the resulting escalation of tensions; including Chinese demands of Australia and recent blocks on numerous commodities. We discuss the evident decoupling and cover the economic impacts of the commodities blocks and decrease in Chinese tourism and students

In today’s investment webinar MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Head of Advice Tim Fuller and Principal of Iron Matrix, David Morgan discuss the future of manufacturing and energy in Australia. On the agenda today: Manufacturing revival in Australia (and other western countries), if the declining costs of renewable energy will be enough to

We start with the fiercely contested US election, in which vote counting is currently underway, and tipped to not be fully decided for some time, due to record numbers of early votes cast, both in person and by mail, due to the coronavirus pandemic. On Tuesday, we had the Reserve Bank of Australia announce a

Several weeks ago we ran an episode with the same topic, where we spoke at length about traditional sources of yield, and reached the conclusion that due to record low rates, in the future investors would need to expose themselves to risk in order to gain returns. Today we look further at the future of

Our attention turns this week to what is most Australian’s second biggest asset, Superannuation. Super means a lot things to every Australian. For some it’s a tax efficient long term savings vehicle that if managed well can provide security and reassurance that retirement will be comfortable and reliable. For others it is an annoying, mandated

On the agenda today: • prof. Keen’s recent work on the appallingly bad neoclassical economics of climate change, in which he contends numerous errors have been made in calculating the economic effects of climate change. Correcting for these errors makes it feasible that the economic damages from climate change are at least an order of

A special episode of the podcast this week, in which MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller dive into Dr Frankenberg’s Mad Budget Experiment! (aka Australia’s Budget). On the agenda: • The budget numbers & policies • Economic, political

After 5 years of falling RBA rates and the fact that income needs are rising against falling “safe” investment returns, what can clients do? Growth was good before March this year, but what now? Is it a short term hit to growth or something more sustained and how can this be used to provide income

Our attention turns locally this week, as the country begins take stock of the coronavirus impacts and look to the future for drivers of Australia’s favourite asset class, property. As news breaks that lending standards are being relaxed and the Reserve Bank of Australia continues to pump freshly printed monopoly money into the economy through