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Don Hamson

12 February 2019 • By Plato • 1 min read

A strong year for dividends globally

Despite global share markets falling heavily in the last quarter, 2018 was a strong year for dividends across developed markets, with A$1.8 trillion p...

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Blockchain: The requirement for privilege controls in a distributed ledger

Blockchain technology has been heralded as the answer to many problems. There have been endless conversations about how it will grow to become a favou...

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Will the US and China finally share their toys?

The markets limped to a tepid close on Friday, with stocks broadly flat and the US dollar broadly ascendant. Politics, rather than data, will overshad...

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Some leaders watch as financial industry burns

It is a positive sign for Australia’s future that we are finally accepting how to define, measure and then positively change the corporate culture o...

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5 investment themes for the Year of the Pig

Chinese New Year arrives on 5 February, leaving behind the Year of the Dog and ushering in the Year of the Pig. Portfolio managers Greg Kuhnert, Inves...

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Lucky number (twenty) 8?

As Australia reaches for its 28th year of uninterrupted economic growth – the longest on record among developed countries – the question on inve...

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Follow the bean counters

Why does it makes sense for finance departments to spearhead the digital transformation push? As the fourth industrial revolution rapidly becomes a...

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Looking for a compass in a storm

Few investors are looking forward to 2019.  The volatility that we have experienced in markets over the latter part of 2018 and the overwhelming sens...

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Steering equity portfolios through stormy style seas

As volatility returned to global markets in 2018, return patterns for equity styles were very unstable. With more signs of turbulence ahead, investors...

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Is the US technology industry being defanged?

Paypal founder Peter Thiel predicted in his 2014 Wall Street Journal essay “Competition is for Losers” that Silicon Valley would become the centre...

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