Colin Twiggs is a former investment banker with over 40 years of experience in financial markets and the founder of PVT Capital (AFSL no. 546090), which manages securities investments for high-net-worth investors.
PVT Capital tracks secular trends in the global economy to identify investment opportunities, combining bottom-up fundamental analysis with technical analysis for stock selection and position-sizing. We serve private clients who are wholesale investors, with each portfolio tailored to the client’s specific needs and risk profile. Most portfolios include stocks, financial instruments, short-term mortgages, and exchange-traded products such as gold ETFs.
Born in Durban, South Africa, Colin qualified as a chartered accountant at KPMG before joining national trust company Metboard. The company merged with international bank Investec, where he filled senior roles in finance, property, and investment banking.
Since moving to Australia in 1998, Colin has concentrated on investment. He co-founded Incredible Charts, developing new technical indicators—Twiggs® Money Flow, Trend Index, and Momentum—suitable for longer-term trend analysis, and writes the Trading Diary newsletter, with over 100,000 subscribers. Colin also writes The Patient Investor subscription newsletter, offering a macro perspective on financial markets. He developed composite leading indicators for the US and Australian markets that combine fundamental, economic, and technical indicators to identify key changes in the stock market cycle and to pricing anomalies.
Colin and his wife Gaye live in SE Queensland, where he is active in surf lifesaving and open-water swimming.