Last Friday November 15, I had the great pleasure of being the special guest convener of a panel discussion at Euroz Hartleys annual ‘Bringing the West to the East’ lunch held at the MCA, The Rocks, Sydney.

Stunning to watch the precipitous decline in the closely tracked American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) Investor Sentiment Survey. The February 26 print of 19.4% marks a significant downward move from the prior week (29.2%), suggesting a give-up in investor confidence is underway.