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ViewPoint - The selective path

With gold miners demonstrating operating leverage, bond markets anticipating a muddle through, and small companies outperforming, explore the opportunities and risks ahead in global markets.

ViewPoint - Difficulties and opportunities

VanEck's latest analysis identifies the global risk factors most likely to move markets and the overlooked assets gaining prominence against a growing loss of faith in US exceptionalism.

Emerging strength: Why EM bonds are the future of fixed income

Over the past 25 years EM governments have gone from being in deficit to running up surpluses while developed market (DM) governments have been accruing deficits. This change has resulted in a shift in the origin of bond crises since the turn of the millennium.

ViewPoint: Tariff Turbulence

VanEck’s latest analysis, Tariff Turbulence, April 2025, highlights the hidden, under-owned assets for investors to consider as they reassess their portfolios in the current climate.

Quality: Building a resilient portfolio

This paper sets out the foundations of quality investing and compares its performance and risk to other identifiable investing ‘factors’ using over 25 years of history. Quality, like other factors, behaves differently during different economic regimes.

Viewpoint: Priced to perfection

Markets appear to be taking an optimistic view on the year ahead, pricing in a ‘lot of good news’. VanEck's recent outlook provides analysis of the global macroeconomic landscape, noting several challenges that investors should note which overshadow this market positivity.

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Interviews

AFIC on the speculative ASX boom, opportunities, and LIC discounts

In an interview with Firstlinks, CEO Mark Freeman discusses how speculative ASX stocks have crushed blue chips this year, companies he likes now, and why he’s confident AFIC’s NTA discount will close.

Investment strategies

Solving the Australian equities conundrum

The ASX's performance this year has again highlighted a persistent riddle facing investors – how to approach an index reliant on a few sectors and handful of stocks. Here are some ideas on how to build a durable portfolio.

Retirement

Regulators warn super funds to lift retirement focus

Despite three years under the retirement income covenant, regulators warn a growing gap between leading and lagging super funds, driven by poor member insights and patchy outcomes measurement.

Shares

Australian equities: a tale of two markets

The ASX seems a market split in two: between the haves and have nots; or those with growth and momentum and those without. In this environment, opportunity favours those willing to look beyond the obvious.

Investment strategies

Dotcom on steroids Part II

OpenAI’s business model isn't sustainable in the long run. If markets catch on, the company could face higher borrowing costs, or worse, and that would have major spillover effects.

Investment strategies

AI’s debt binge draws European telco parallels

‘Hyperscalers’ including Google, Meta and Microsoft are fuelling an unprecedented surge in equity and debt issuance to bankroll massive AI-driven capital expenditure. History shows this isn't without risk.

Investment strategies

Leveraged single stock ETFs don't work as advertised

Leveraged ETFs seek to deliver some multiple of an underlying index or reference asset’s return over a day. Yet, they aren’t even delivering the target return on an average day as they’re meant to do.

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