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After a punishing innings for her flagship ETF, ARK Invest founder Cathie Wood thinks investors need to stop living in the 70s. This time next year the Fed will be “running in the opposite direction” and deflation will dominate the market, she says.

Price-to-sales ratios were viewed as something of a badge of honour by many in the venture capital and technology sector in 2020 and beyond. While those intricately involved in the sector couldn’t predict the future, the sheer number and successful listing of hundreds of tech unicorns in 2020 and 2021 may well have marked the end of this valuation measure.

How do you know you need advice? Seeking advice can be a challenging endeavour for most people. It is not so much that advice is hard to find, but more so that the abundance of information out there offers so much, but under it may lie hidden intentions – but more on this later. Here…

With less than a month left in 2020, broking firms, analysts and market economists start releasing their crystal-ball predictions for 2021. Most of these predictions are fairly stock-standard, such as “Goldman Sachs expects the S&P 500 to surge 19% from Monday’s close to 4,300 by the end of 2021, with gains tacking on an additional…

With the onset of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed, the move to digitisation became one of necessity rather than choice. Traditional bricks-and-mortar retailers shifted online, triggering a frenzy of buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) vendors offering solutions to eventually replace physical cash. And quietly working in the background is the backbone supporting this transition: 5G. In…

Company Info: Adherium (ADR, 2.5 cents)Market capitalisation: $17 millionThree-year total return: -33.8% a yearAnalysts’ consensus target price: n/a Adherium is a global leader in medication compliance technology, developing devices that monitor the extent to which patients suffering chronic illness take their medications as prescribed. More than 50% of such patients do not do so, resulting…

Markets to open higher, ASX up 1.3% on the back of CSL (ASX: CSL), National Australia Bank (ASX: NAB) profit crushed, ‘Nirvana’ for sharemarkets. The ASX 200 (ASX: XJO) delivered another strong day as it became more clear that Joe Biden would be the next President of the United States. Despite the election still being…

The last few months have been an IPO bonanza for investors after a flurry of small-cap tech companies listed on the ASX at a most opportune time. A recovery rally, together with a COVID-19 inspired move to digital, saw both the tech and healthcare sectors boom. Simple logic would tell you, that listing during a…

A new date has entered share market history – 9 March, 2020. This day gave us the worst one-day drop on US markets since the GFC-inspired crash of 2008, with a global pandemic and an oil price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia the dual triggers. Since then, share markets globally have clawed back some…

Investors ready themselves for Covid-normal And just like that, this crazy year is almost over. As we head into Christmas, Melburnians will breathe a sigh of relief after a marathon lockdown is lifted and the state readies for a “COVID-normal Christmas” – whatever that is. While markets largely shrugged off the COVID effect, it’s been…