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If you invested $1000 in CSL on this day 20 years ago, it would now be worth $21,560. In 2001, CSL was a relatively small company and has grown over the last two...

Low interest rates, record-breaking consumer savings and a seemingly never-ending stimulus package have blended together to create the perfect conditions for a global...

It was Albert Einstein who reportedly described compound interest as "the eighth wonder of the world", dubbing the process the universe's most powerful force. Whether...

Plus, there is a buzz around Rumble’s impending zinc-lead assays and IGO prepares to start drilling at Boadicea’s Fraser Range plot. The copper stocks weren’t in...

In the month of March, global markets saw the rise in bond yields as investors worried about unmanageable inflation on the horizon. This has definitely shaken up...

Here we are at the Q1 checkpoint to see how our peloton of fundies has performed so far. Who is leading the pack and who will be left in the dust this year? But first,...

Despite its strong run, the Allan Gray Australia Equity portfolio remains heavily tilted towards beaten-up cyclical companies, as their decade-long underperformance...

Twenty-one years ago, at the beginning of the millennium, the ASX-20's top stocks were primarily financials and telcos. In the 21 years since, we've seen the top 20...

Over five years, all ASX sectors are up with the exception of Telcos, where Telstra has been the perennial laggard. Over the past Covid year, however, more balance has...

What’s an aristocrat? For me, the term conjures stereotypes of high-born wealth. And, curiously, a line from the famous Johnny Cash song Folsom Prison springs to mind:...

After one of the longest periods of underperformance in history, governments and central banks' response to the COVID-19 crisis may well have ushered in a new era for...

International and ACCC controversies be damned! Google still led Livewire’s reader global picks by a large margin in the first quarter of 2021. What am I talking...

In recent months, much has been said on growth versus value, and tech stocks versus cyclical stocks. But focusing on these labels misses the true underlying driver of...

Yes folks it's Off the Charts! our weekly round-up of everything you need to know (and some things you don't) from the world of investment. The Livewire team hopes you...

The global economy is firing up, inflation is on the rise, and over US$30 trillion will need to be spent on decarbonizing the grid in the coming years, if we’re to...

Origin’s Frank Calabria answered some pointed questions during a recent sit-down with Allan Gray Australia Equity Fund's Dr. Suhas Nayak, including questions about a...

Data this week showed that national house prices boomed in March up 2.8% taking the rise since September to 8% and these sort official numbers often...

Over the past decade, healthcare has been a strong performer in markets. Stocks like Livewire readers' nominated favourite, CSL, have outperformed expectations. But...

It’s safe to say that after racking up two consecutive years of 50%+ returns, expectations were high for this year’s most-tipped large caps, which looked strikingly...

It would appear the death of banks as an investment has been greatly exaggerated. Australian banks have had a very strong period of recent outperformance since the...

Since listing in June 1994, the performance of CSL (ASX: CSL) has been nothing but spectacular, with the stock ultimately growing into the ASX200's largest...

If cash is king, then rent is an ambitious prince for listed property investors. It’s all (mostly) about rental income for those sifting real estate investment trusts...

Believe it or not, the first quarter of 2021 has already come to a close. While (thankfully) it’s been a much less eventful one than Q1 of 2020, it’s still brought its...

After a year in which Britain almost succumbed to a different sort of wide-ranging existential threat to survival, the words uttered by Winston Churchill in 1940...