Gamma\’d by the Swiss central bank (SNB)

The Swiss central bank (SNB) suddenly abandoned its peg of the SFr against the Euro on 15 January after having promised only 3 days before that it would not remove the peg.

The yield curve inverts

Are interest rates on fixed rate loans going to rise or fall over the next year?  Should investors fix the rate on their investment loans while rates are low?

Disrupting the oil market

What is the biggest market to be \’disrupted\’ in the last 10 years by new technology.  Is it retail markets like books and music?  Is the taxi market?  Is it the print media?  No, it is the global oil market.  New production technologies have increased the supply of oil and gas to the point where […]

The volatile Australian dollar ($A)

Currency issues are very salient in the Australian finance system, including wealth management.  Australia is, after all, a small open, resource based economy with a floating currency.  I am going to talk about the $A quite a lot in this newsletter over time.  To begin with I just want to look at the history of […]