You may have heard of the one about the broken clock. Look up at the wall. If the hands aren’t moving on your favourite clock it’s not going to give you the correct time. Yet as the hands don’t move, the time does. Every twelve hours the clock will line up with the correct time and strike gold. Stretch it out to 24 hours and your stopped or broken clock is right twice in a day. It’s a useful proverb or phrase if you want to explain away some accidental success or good fortune against the odds. Maybe a unreliable…

The calls have started. Not many, but enough to attract our attention. COVID-19 is changing lives, goals and plans. There’s one group who hasn’t been given much attention, but it seems clear their goals and lifestyle intentions post work may not be as expected. Investment focus has primarily been on self-funded retirees. Specifically, those with self-inflicted woes. The financial media is completely disinterested in the performance of an index type portfolio with its construction split between various asset classes. Most of their readers are still people who pick stocks and cram into the banks for yield. Every day they can…

In support of active fund management This is the time for active managers to shine Opportunity is ripe for active investors Don’t ‘buy the index’: Investing in the time of the coronavirus Stockpickers can prove their worth in crisis, says Aberdeen It’s a Weird Market. Time To Go Active. A selection of headlines from publications in Australia and around the world. This has been the message since COVID-19 took off. Active managers are once again ready to step into the light and prove their worth in volatile investment markets. It’s a cycle as old as time. You can set your…