Market Volatility

Market Volatility is Common: However, Long-Term, The Important Thing is Earnings

Howard Marks, the highly respected investor and observer, commented that while markets can swing…

Letter from Taiwan

This missive comes to you from Taiwan where PPM is visiting IT companies. In the portfolios we have…

Interest rates have gone down

Hugh MacNally, PPM Chairman and Portfolio Manager discusses the importance of interest rates in…

Economic return to normalcy

A Return to Normalcy

After a significant re-adjustment of valuations over the last year, we feel that a wide range of…

Howard Marks

Howard Marks makes a Good Point – Markets are more volatile than economies

To paraphrase the much-admired investor Howard Marks, in real life things go from pretty good to…

Fixed & Floating Rate Securities versus Cash. It’s time…

Portfolios of directly held Fixed & Floating Rate Securities not only significantly enhance income…

Monetary Policy and Price Stability

Remarks by Jerome H. Powell Chair Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

Separately Managed Accounts

IMAs and SMAs explained

Individually Managed Accounts (IMAs) and Separately Managed Accounts (SMAs) enable clients to…

Brexit

Insights into Brexit

PPM, recently had the opportunity to speak to The Honourable Alexander Downer, AC to discuss his…

Managing Equities

Managing equities portfolios with large CGT issues

One of the difficult problems an advisor has to contend with is dealing with large CGT issues in a…