- Apr 13, 2020
Sequence Risk revisited – what it means to you
As retirement portfolios universally suffer as markets decline, now is perhaps a good time to revisit sequencing risk and what it means...
- Feb 7, 2020
How the Coronavirus has impacted your portfolio
The Wuhan novel coronavirus continues to spread at an increasing rate, with around 4000 new cases confirmed each day, a death count of...
- Feb 6, 2020
Will equity markets go up again in 2020?
“Past performance is no indication of future performance” – sure, we all know this but do past returns tell us anything? We at Sovereign...
- Jan 14, 2020
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…” A personal perspective on the emotional news-
Weren’t summers in Australia supposed to be quiet, lazy and carefree? That was then, but this is now. As we move into 2020 Australia’s...
- Dec 5, 2019
Quiet Australians can be quietly contrarian.
Most people in our industry agree that the biggest pitfall for investors, experts and lay people alike, is the tendency to extrapolate...
- Oct 20, 2019
Respect for the unknown unknowns – a report from our boardroom lunch client briefing
In February 2002, Donald Rumsfeld, then US Secretary of State for Defence, said at a Defence Department briefing: ‘There are known...