Colin Twiggs is the director of PVT Capital Pty Ltd which holds Australian Financial Services Licence No. 546090. He specializes in managing securities investments for high net-worth investors.
Born in Durban, South Africa, Colin has more than 30 years’ experience in finance and investment. Having qualified as a chartered accountant at KPMG, he joined trust company Metboard and international bank Investec, where he filled senior roles in finance, property and investment banking.
Colin moved to Australia in 1998, to concentrate full-time on trading and investment, and completed a Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance & Investment with the Securities Institute of Australia.
He also co-founded Incredible Charts — where he writes the popular Trading Diary newsletter with more than 110,000 subscribers — and The Patient Investor. Colin’s specialty is blending macro analysis of the global economy with fundamental and technical analysis of stocks and securities. He focuses on interest rates and financial market liquidity as key drivers of the economic cycle and warned of the 2008/2009 bear market as early as January 2007.
Colin and his wife Gaye live in SE Queensland, where he is involved in surf lifesaving, open water swimming and is a member of the Southport Golf Club.