US Investor Sentiment retreats to a constructive level

(5/3/25) Stunning to watch the precipitous decline in the closely tracked American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Investor Sentiment Survey. The February 26 print of 19.4% marks a significant downward move from the prior week (29.2%), suggesting a give-up in investor confidence is underway.

New Blood

(2/1/25) General stock market health, here and abroad, and improving investor confidence will prove to be the transmission mechanism for healthy IPO outcomes in 2025.

2025 Earnings Outlook

(13/12/24) Encouraging to read of the growing confidence around the 2025 earnings outlook for the S&P500. Goldman Sachs believe 2025 eps growth will be ~11%, following on from ~8% in 2024. This sits a notch below market consensus at ~ 13% for 2025.

Bringing the West to the East

(15/11/24) Last Friday November 15, I had the great pleasure of being the special guest convener of a panel discussion at Euroz Hartleys annual ‘Bringing the West to the East’ lunch held at the MCA, The Rocks, Sydney.

Awakening The Dragon

(6/11/24) This week I attended a timely symposium, ‘Awakening The Dragon’, hosted by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in collaboration with CITIC CLSA and the Bank of China Syd Branch.