Oil remains one of the most powerful forces shaping the global economy. Despite the push toward clean energy, demand continues to rise, not just for fuel, but for its essential role in everyday products and industries. Recent geopolitical tensions have once again highlighted its impact on inflation and the cost of living.
In this month’s newsletter, we explore why oil is far more than just fuel, and why its relevance is set to endure for years to come.

In this month’s newsletter, Henk Myburgh, CFA, looks at how the valuation of companies’ changes depends on where they are in their lifecycle. He then identifies some companies straddling multiple company stages and how they offer the potential for higher growth.

When companies historically returned capital to investors, they mainly did so by paying dividends. In this month’s newsletter, Henk Myburgh, CFA discusses the return of capital to shareholders, how this has changed over time, and what it means for investors.

In this month’s newsletter, Henk Myburgh, CFA will explain how money supply is theoretically a leading indicator of company earnings. He will then analyse its historical performance in the USA and what we can learn from the current relationship between money supply and company earnings and its potential impact on the US market.

In our previous newsletter, Henk Myburgh, CFA, explored a mathematical tool that can help guide allocations to individual investments: the Kelly Ratio. In the final instalment of this series, we will explore how the Kelly Criterion can be extended beyond single investments to evaluate the safety of portfolios as a whole.

In our previous newsletter, Henk Myburgh, CFA, explored different approaches to allocating capital across asset classes. Now, we turn our attention to a mathematical tool that can help guide allocations to individual investments: the Kelly Ratio.

This newsletter is the first in a series of three, where Henk Myburgh, CFA, will provide an overview of different methods used to allocate capital to asset classes, listing the advantages and limitations of each and indicating the combination of methods used by Pyxis Investment Management.

In this month’s newsletter Henk Myburgh looks at target return objectives and discusses the potential pitfalls of the narrative fallacy by using investment themes. He compares Nominal and Real returns and argues that Real returns should be favoured as an investment objective.

Is it rational to allocate less to bonds than the traditional 40% for a balanced portfolio?

Can the Fed claim a “soft landing”? A deeper look at the relationship between the yield curve and historical recessions, leading in to the Fiscal Dominance concept, the current US yield curve and economy.