18 February 2025 Dear Fintax Investor Late in January, Chinese startup DeepSeek unveiled a cost-effective artificial intelligence (AI) model that requires significantly fewer AI chips for training,...

15 January 2025 Dear Fintax Investor Artificial intelligence (AI) is taking centre stage in both popular culture and the financial markets, and it’s no surprise why. As AI continues to reshape...

8 January 2025 Dear Fintax Investor The Past: Performance 2024 delivered another good year for the global stock market. In fact, since the start of 2014, there have been only three negative...

5 August 2024 The prior five year investment cycle has been interesting to say the least.  It has bared witness to the Covid crisis, the sharpest interest rate hiking cycle since the 1970s, a...

8 July 2024 Dear Fintax Investor As we have reached the mid-year, we can take stock of the year-to-date performance of various countries and regions and consider the outlook for the remainder of the...

Collecting can be an addiction. I have it. Mine is vintage watch collecting. My collection of vintage pocket watches stretches all the way back to the mid-1800s. The watches themselves are...

Global equity markets delivered their strongest monthly performance thus far in 2024 after a disappointing April. However, most of recent global equity index rises can be attributed to a few key...

Market volatility has become heightened both in the lead up to the U.S. elections taking place in November, and the uncertainty of the interest rate reduction as inflation persists. Sector pricing...

After a tumultuous 2022 calendar year, 2023 turned out to be an excellent calendar year for global equity markets, with the MSCI All Countries World Index rising by 22.2% in USD terms. This is...

Nothing vast enters the life of mortals without a curse - Sophocles 406 BC J. Robert Oppenheimer headed up The Manhattan Project, responsible for the research and design of the atomic bomb during...

How wonderful are watches? Time personified in a little machine on your wrist. From Jewelry to Timekeeping Wristwatches are a relatively new phenomenon. Prior to World War I wristwatches were...

The Philosopher's Stone Imagine Isaac Newton toiling away in a dark room attempting to find the process which could transform lead into gold. This was the basic philosophy of alchemy and the pursuit...