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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...

Friday will bring the last of the recent hybrid listings in the form of NAB's circa $2 billion plus* Capital Notes 5 security (ASX: NABPH). The big question is where...

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...

The next generation of Australia’s technology unicorns are galloping into sight, says Regal Funds Management CIO Philip King, and he’s betting at least a few of them...

The year 2020 presented a range of firsts for many, including a global pandemic resulting in a very short-lived but deep COVID-19 recession, exacerbated by government...

Just as many of today’s most successful companies started out as micro-caps, some of the current cohort of ASX-listed earlier-stage companies are now graduating to...

The Australian-dollar price is now higher than in its heyday of 2011, delivering big wins for investors in highly-leveraged juniors such as Fenix and Strike. And...

The rotation from growth into value is well upon us with many beaten down stocks now finding favour in the market. As the country returns to a semblance of normality,...

Telstra’s share price performance has been lacklustre over the last few years, as the loss of the company’s fixed line earnings to the National Broadband Network and a...

I recently picked my seven-year old daughter up from school, gabbling excitedly about what she had just learnt about solar energy. The drive home was punctuated with...

If the underlying purpose of investing is to preserve and grow your purchasing power, then the biggest conundrum is surely defining the value of a dollar – especially...

Keeping an open mind about stock selection will be crucial next year. If investors find a good idea, they must try to ensure perceptions about the short-term macro...