Nathan Tipping

Selling is the dark art of investing. Whether you’re watching CNBC, reading the financial news, or listening to your broker, you’ll hear about what you should buy. Buy this stock, buy that market, buy, buy, buy. But you almost never…

Have you ever been overwhelmed by the choices in a restaurant’s wine menu – and just decided on the house wine? Or, when you buy the latest mobile phone, do you just accept the factory default settings and not even…

When Steve Morrow came across an online auction advertising the “urgent sale” of a hen for the poultry sum of NZ$1.50 (£0.78), he thought he’d found himself a bargain. It wasn’t until he received a message from the seller asking…

Big oil’s going green. Sort of. The onset of the pandemic last year left oil companies to do some soul searching. That fossil fuels (at least at the scale they’re used right now) have a limited lifespan was already well-known….

To paraphrase Oscar Wilde, “We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, the stock market.” If you’d looked at only the value of the S&P 500 last year, you wouldn’t have thought the country was in…

It was the event that made a region. And it started, like many historical moments, with an accident. In 1909, a group of prospectors were trekking over a rocky knoll in rural Ontario when the leader of the group, Harry…

Until the turn of the 20th century, being poor was seen as a moral failing in Britain. People living in poverty did so, it was believed, because they were inherently flawed, not because of any external factors. And, by that…

I’m of the opinion that the pandemic hasn’t brought about that many new economic trends. Rather, it’s sped up existing ones. One of these is the search for safe havens – “safe” assets, typically perceived as some of the lowest…

So it turns out worldwide lockdowns are pretty bad for the economy. Who knew? Bearing the brunt of this, of course, are commodity prices. For them, 2020 has been a bloodbath. Oil briefly dipped below 0USD per barrel for the…

Take a moment to think about the following phrase: “risk-free rate of return”. It’s part of the everyday language of finance – one of those terms bandied about so much that we rarely stop to think about what it actually…

Remember that bizarre period back in April when oil prices briefly dipped below zero? It was a global first. Aeroplanes sat on the tarmac. Working from home became the norm (at least in industries where it was feasible). Pubs and…

Regarding yesterday’s letter about inflation being the ever-present threat to all savers, I wanted to bring up this astute observation made by our new analyst, Nathan Tipping, concerning gold prices and their inherent tension with the stockmarket highs. In his…