The InvestSense Podcast

Join InvestSense Director Jonathan Ramsay and Gopi Karunakaran in this podcast as they discuss:

• Why Ardea reduced risk in portfolios. Shouldn’t they be making hay while they are outperforming as they have in recent weeks?

• How are bond markets functioning - the unvarnished version? Here's a clue - it’s got a lot to do with liquidity.

• What are central banks doing to provide short-term liquidity and stabilise long term borrowing cost?

• Can they improve liquidity enough and heal debt markets? When will we know if it’s working?

• High yield spreads (what its costs for risky companies to borrow) is often seen as a barometer of stress but why do spreads for very high-quality debt often blow out by more than expected in the early stages of a crisis (as they have recently)?

• What else we should we monitor if we want to detect early signs off stress in bond markets? Here’s another spoiler - it’s not what people were tracking in the GFC and there is a good reason for that.

Join InvestSense Director Jonathan Ramsay and Andrew Hunt of Hunt Economics in this conversation with 6 other experts as they discuss the implications of the COVID-19 crisis. Specifically, they cover the following issues:

• How and where will the coronavirus likely spread from here? Is containment even realistic now? What is helping and hindering the containment efforts in different countries?

• Crises, Anxiety and panic. How will societies react? Are we already starting to see what a clinically anxious world looks like? Is this self-fulling and ultimately destructive?

• What is the Fed likely to be thinking and how will it react? Can monetary policy save markets? What will that (monetary policy response) look like in Aus & NZ and what will immediate the economic impact on Aus & NZ look like?

• Avoiding the second phase – will the covid-19 crisis cause a global recession? Looking further out could we see another economic leg down – will the covid-19 crisis cause a depression? What does that look like in the developed versus developing worlds or West vs East?

• Is there any room for optimism? Are we seeing China reboot already? Are there lessons from China and a recovery roadmap?

Join InvestSense Director Jonathan Ramsay and Andrew Hunt of Hunt Economics in this podcast as they discuss:

• Take stock after the Coronavirus inspired stock market rout and review the macroeconomic developments and market reactions that got us to where we are now.

• Where does that leave bond markets, credit markets and the world trade system?

• What are the implications for equity holders?

• What does ‘really low rates for longer’ mean for retirees?