In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Head of Operations Shelley George, and Senior Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro shed light on how Trump broke the Shiller P/E ratio, and how we’d suggest fixing it For many value investors, the Shiller Price/Earnings ratio is the holy grail. There are a number of

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro are joined by space investment professional Dr. Andrew Barton to discuss opportunities in the industry and if your portfolio needs space On the agenda: Background on recent breakthroughs and cost changes Current investment avenues: defence contractors, SpaceX/Blue Origin,

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro discuss the Chinese Economy’s Hard Landing On the agenda today: Background Three scenarios: hard landing in old economy; hard landing in wider economy; bailout. Investment implications View the presentation slides Click here to

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Senior Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro set the scene for the rocky economic path out of lockdowns On the agenda: The consensus view is that Australia’s economic rebound will be swift once lockdowns ease. But there is good reason

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro discuss if wages will grow in 2021 – 2022 On the agenda today: A decade of stagnation World wages rebounding But structural changes are muddying the water Australia has different issues Investment implications View

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro discuss what’s seemingly been the shortest commodity supercycle ever On the agenda: No more talk of a commodity supercycle Macro perspective China Micro Investment Implications View the presentation slides  Can’t make it to

In today’s investment webinar Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Senior Analyst Radek Zeleny and Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro explore reporting season, and if the profit boom can last On the agenda: Top down US Earnings Regional Earnings Sector earnings Inflation Individual stocks Investment outlook View the presentation slides  Can’t make it to

In today’s investment webinar MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, Head of Advice Tim Fuller and Financial Advisor Mark Monteiro sit down to discuss why you should beware the growth scare! On the agenda: This is a risk scenario, not a base case China US Offsets Assets View the

In today’s investment webinar (LIVE 12:30pm AEST), MB Fund’s Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller are joined by CBA’s Head of Australian Economics, Gareth Aird to discuss Australia’s Remarkable Jobs Recovery. Topics covered: Australia’s unemployment rate fell to decade low in June. Tightest job market

In today’s investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller use the latest June property reports to investigate if you’re currently better off renting or buying Australian housing Use the Australian property calculator Topics covered: Housing market valuation Latest Stats Macro outlook Rent or Buy? Investment Implications View

In today’s investment webinar, Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Economist Leith Van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller disucss the quarterly MB Australian property report. As we round out what has been an incomparable financial year in so many ways, our focus today is fixed on Australia’s favourite asset class –

In today’s investment webinar Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller turn their attention to the finer arts of value and growth investment styles. Today’s episode will focus on the two major styles of investment, how they’ve fared recently. and how they influence our portfolio’s On the agenda: Quant

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller take the opportunity to talk through the FAANG (Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) stocks, as well as a broader look at quality and growth stocks On the agenda: Looking at the FAANG tech behemoths: Facebook, Google, Apple, Microsoft,

In today’s investment webinar MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller cover the continuing saga unfurling with China, our biggest trading partner. As the behemoth in demand of global commodities, it makes a lot of sense to consider China’s real influence in both global

In today’s investment podcast MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller cover the final in our series of three podcasts on the contrarian view for inflation. This time we look at what to do from an investment perspective. On the agenda: Now vs History

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 set to provide the lay of the land on our contrarian view of inflation. The inventory rebuild/supply chain “pig in the python”. The price signals of today are creating the excess capacity

In today’s investment webinar (LIVE 12:30pm AEST), Nucleus Wealth’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller are set to provide the lay of the land on our contrarian view of inflation. Topics on the agenda: Inflation today is not the same as inflation in the 1970s.

In this week’s investment podcast, MB Fund’s Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller investigate if 10 years of Australian budget deficits actually matter Topics covered: Key budget parameters & investment implications No more big New Zealand Labour market tightening and unemployment Immigration How stimulatory is

This week our attention turns to the growing electrification of our world. Nucleus Wealth’s Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller are joined by energy aficionado Paul Martin to help us determine if battery tech will ice the petrol car You can read Paul’s articles here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-martin-195763b/ Timestamps: 00:00 intro 01:27

In today’s investment webinar, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller discuss why it’s time to move assets offshore Following the Great Pandemic of 2020, the global economy is entering a robust recovery. This new business cycle is not like those that have come

Today we turn our eye back to Australian property as low interest rates has fuelled a marked surge in demand as the economy rebuilds post pandemic. What has emerged however, is a two speed house price boom. With a superb run up in prices of suburban houses, as space and isolation are sought, prices of

In today’s investment webinar (LIVE 12:30pm AEST), MB Fund’s Chief Economist Leith van Onselen, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, and Head of Advice Tim Fuller are joined by property buyers advocate Catherine Cashmore to get an on the ground look at Australia’s housing boom. After a tumultuous 2020, that saw rocky and rebounding equity markets,

March was a month for value stocks to shine. Global markets boomed, up 5% and Australian markets rose 2.4%.  We had positioned our portfolios for a rise in bond yields and a rotation to value stocks and so our portfolios outperformed benchmarks. Our asset allocation portfolios all rose as well, our growth portfolio the best,

With vaccine clotting issues causing delays to rollout worldwide, MB Fund’s Chief Strategist David Llewellyn Smith, Head of Investments Damien Klassen, senior analyst Radek Zeleny, Head of Advice Tim Fuller the investment team investigate if this be catalyst for a stock market stumble Locally, our own federal government is currently under fire for a slow

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