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In December 2020, 5,137 Livewire readers fired up their spreadsheets, tweaked their assumptions and gazed into their crystal balls before nominating the stocks they...

Low-interest rates, government stimulus and a post-COVID structural shift in equities will define markets in 2021 according to James Gerrish of Market Matters. As we...

It was English writer Rudyard Kipling who famously wrote in his poem "If" of the value of "keeping your head when all about you are losing theirs". In a similar vein,...

If you were told that tomorrow the market would close for five years and you could only own shares in one company, which company would you choose? It's a challenging...

To understand how professional investors think about healthcare in the current environment, I recently asked three experts where they see the most opportunity in 2021,...

The “millionaire factory” investment bank Macquarie Group (ASX: MQG), buy-now-pay-later phenomenon Afterpay (ASX: APT), software firm Technology One (ASX: TNE) and...

The last 12 months have been bruising and emotional for many people, including equity investors. 2020 started with markets rising nicely until late February, based on...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a decent investor in possession of a good sense of opportunity is in want of one great stock pick. Well, maybe not. But we...

Welcome to one of Livewire's favourite times of the year, and we're not just talking about Christmas or summer, or having that well-earned after-work silly season...

There are some trades that so fill us with joy we become like a proud parent championing their children's sporting achievements, talking the ear off family and...

In a year in which medical matters dominated discussions at almost every level, healthcare has been a key investment theme. And as a sector it has performed relatively...

The last two reporting seasons have clearly been highly unusual, and the way we’ve thought about earnings estimates for our companies is to worry a little bit less...

This time last year, we asked Livewire readers to submit their #1 stock pick for 2020. Once the results were in, we tallied up the votes and using the Sharesight...

In the AFR today I write that Australia’s ferocious banking regulator has tried its darndest to blow-up our deposit-takers in the latest iteration of its...

Exploiting inefficiencies and finding real alpha in bond markets during an era of low yields is possible says Ying Yi Ann Cheng, Portfolio Management Director at...

With mounting pressure on banks to reduce their exposure to funding fossil fuel companies, the four majors have introduced a number of ambitious measures to meet their...

Investors love stories like that of global e-commerce giant Amazon – which two years ago became the first company to hit a trillion-dollar market cap. Far from its...

2020 has been challenging and complex, however successful investing is a forward-looking exercise and it's now time to move on. With the US elections (somewhat)...

In 2003 I bought a million shares in a stock called Paladin (ASX: PDN) at 1.6 cents. I sold them two weeks later for 3.2 cents having doubled my money and pocketed...

If COVID-19 has demonstrated anything, it’s the importance of owning high-quality companies that can run their own race. These are companies that are able to perform,...

Gold Road and Breaker among those seen as having potential to play catch-up. And TNG is also chasing a re-rating as its FID looms. The gold stocks aren’t exactly...

Clean energy and avoidance of fossil fuels are perhaps the first things that spring to mind when thinking about environmental, social and governance investing. And...

The major banks’ ASX hybrids are expected to perform strongly in the period ahead as their credit spreads compress back to pre-COVID levels and we move past a torrent...

To earn an income of $100,000 per annum before tax in 2012, a conservative investor needed $2 million in a 12-month term deposit. Today that number sits at an...