Buy Hold Sell, by Livewire Markets

Markets this year have been scary. For the first time in decades, the ghosts and ghouls of the investment world have resurrected to haunt global markets - inflation, rising rates, and a war led by a ruthless dictator. As a result, indices around the world have been painted in a blood red, with investors (and rightly so) catching a case of the portfolio scaries, moving towards defensives or worse, cashing in their holdings as stocks plummet. Livewire's Ally Selby was joined by Plato Investment

On Wednesday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics announced that inflation had surged 1.8% higher in the third quarter, taking the headline inflation rate for the past 12 months to an eye-watering 7.3%. For some context, this is the highest quarterly print since June 1990. So what does this mean for income investors? Particularly those who rely so heavily on yield? Well, capital appreciation aside, it means that higher inflation is eating into real yields. For example, if a stock has an annual