Finance & Fury Podcast

Welcome To Finance and Fury. Is the market at risk of de-risking? Bit of a mouthful – but over the past 12 months the share markets has been going on a run with higher flows of capital going to higher risk shares over those that could be considered defensive shares – those with lower historical risks due to the backing of fundamentals, such are earnings In this episode – we look at the cycles of share markets – looking at the longer-term trends of periods of risk taking and periods of risk avoidance – in which prices of different segments of shares can move independently from the overall index price movement – index may be going up but segments of the market can decline in prices As previously mentioned, certain sectors of the market have performed very well over the past 12 months – Tech sectors, financials, commodities and other highly leveraged share sectors have performed well - This has seen segments of the market start to underperform the index in Australia – as a massive chunk of the ASX is made up of