The Australian Bureau of Statistics reported that the unemployment rate in September 2024 stayed at 4.1% after adjustments. The employment-to-population ratio matched its 2023 high of 64.4%, and the participation rate reached 67.2%.

Thank you, Nick Ryder, Chief Investment Officer (CIO), and the Stanford Brown Team, for taking the time to generously share your highly informative and invaluable monthly report with THE EXPATRIATE Community. We appreciate your continuous efforts in keeping our community well-informed and empowered with your expert insights and analysis.

This month, Nick tackles some of the most pressing questions for longer-term investors:

• What happened over the month

• Performance of major financial markets

• Current investment outlook and portfolio positioning

• Views on major asset classes

• Current portfolios allocations

To read the full report, click on the link below;

Thank You, Chief Investment Officer (CIO) Nick Ryder, for sharing Stanford Brown’s Monthly Investment Markets Report for July 2023.

This month Nick tackle’s some of the most pressing questions for longer-term investors:

What happened over the month

Performance of major financial markets

Current investment outlook and portfolio positioning

Views on major asset classes

Current portfolios allocations

StanfordBrown's Monthly Investment Markets Report

StanfordBrown has put together an easy-to-read report aimed to help investors cut through all the media noise and hype and understand what is really driving investment markets and portfolio returns.

This month we tackle some of the most pressing questions for long term investors:

• Outlooks for inflation and interest rates

• The ‘Stock Market Olympics’ – who are the winners and losers, and why?

• Are we headed for Recessions – and how will share markets react?

• Are share markets cheap or still expensive? – how do we measure this?

• What is your ‘personal inflation rate’? And will your investments fund it?

• The Federal government’s radical new Super tax – what’s the big deal?

Stanford Brown (SB) has shared the latest edition of our SB Talks podcast. The podcast explores the important elements of your financial world – investments to strategy, retirement planning, and intergenerational wealth.

In the January edition of SB Talks, Stanford Brown CEO Vincent O'Neill speaks with Chief Investment Officer Ashley Owen.

Thank You, Ashely Owen, Chief Financial Officer from StanfordBrown, for sharing their Monthly Investment Markets Report for November 2022.

This month StanfordBrown tackle some of the most pressing questions for longer-term investors:

Inflation and interest rates – Where are we now? - and how high will they go?

Share markets – Are they cheap yet, or still expensive? – and where to from here?

Spending is slowing, but we still sitting on a huge mountain of cash to spend – where did it all come from?

The FTX collapse – is this the end for crypto? Or just a bump in the road?

James Englebrecht financial advisor from St James’s Place Asia and Summit Financial has put together a 10 Point Checklist for consideration before repatriating to Australia.

We caught up with James from Summit Financial, a Partner Practice of St James's Place Asia for his outlook for 2022. 

2021 was a volatile year with a New Administration in the US, widespread Covid19 Vaccine rollout, rising inflation, and energy crisis S&P 500 reached record highs over 60 times Hong Kong and China remained weak. 

Looking ahead main themes that are likely to persist.