With talk that the market is heading for an index squeeze and some investors worried about another financial crisis, is index investing a smart way to invest?
With the strong rise of Afterpay and Zip Pay and the withdrawn Latitude IPO, interest in the buy now pay later space has exploded. But not all attention is good.
With Afterpay rising more than 200% and Zip more than 800% in the past two years, Latitude Financial wants a piece of the booming buy now, pay later industry.
The China trade war, Saudi oil crisis and low interest rates have all heightened global uncertainty. You would think this is a recipe for poor-performing markets, but the All Ordinaries Index and other world markets have continued to show resilience.
The much-anticipated reporting season is critical to understanding the direction of the market over the next 12 months, and could not have come at a more interesting time with the Australian market recently making a new all-time high.
This week the ASX 200 rose strongly reaching its highest level since December 2007 and just a few per cent away from achieving the elusive new all-time high.
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