Category: News

In the last 20 years, the world of technology as we know it has changed seismically to a point beyond recognisable. Encyclopaedias of information, the latest updates on current affairs, and collages of memories, as well as the most trivial of details on our friends’ brunching habits have all been condensed, compounded and placed in our pockets. Print news is being eschewed in favour of online media outlets, and landlines are now almost exclusively reserved for your grandparents’ homes.

We are often asked about why Insync don’t invest in BMW and have a negative view on the automotive sector. Surely the trend towards autonomous cars is going to be a boon for the industry.

The May edition of The Monitor runs through seven events indicating an increasingly fragile market.

At the end of last year, RBA Governor Philip Lowe, deemed cash and card transactions as a “niche payment” highlighting that they are becoming less prominent in our day to day activities.

Being on the right side of disruption is going to be a key driver of generating future investment performance. Many consumer staple companies that have been at the core of quality portfolios are now being disrupted and beer clearly falls into the same category.

The recent Liberal win at the Federal election has unleashed a quarry of concern from the nation, with climate change being a major topic.

The health and wellness industry is estimated to be in excess of 4 trillion dollar industry that will continue to drive the global economy for the next 30 years or more. Wellness has become mainstream and it is greatly influencing consumers buying and decision-making process.

Traders like to use price action to predict what may happen in the short term. With hundreds of different indicators to choose from, and many different approaches to trading, how do you get an edge?

At the inaugural Benchmark Minerals Summit 2019 in Washington DC, US Senator Lisa Murkowski reiterated what the entire world is slowly but surely catching wind on; the unprecedented expansion of the mineral resource trade.

For those familiar with the work of Neil Postman, he is perhaps most familiar with those in the Informatics field, and for an infamous speech in 1990 at an IBM sponsored speech to the German Informatics society, whereby he discussed his ‘Information-Action Ratio’.

American Philosopher John Francis Bongiovi Jr, (otherwise known as Bon Jovi) once famously and sagely remarked, (admittedly taking his lead from Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr), that ‘it was all the same, only the names have changed.’

With China and the United States having dominated the world’s electric vehicle headlines, their European counterparts are now rapidly joining the party and acknowledging the industry’s scale at a time when mass EV adoption is around the corner.