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Firstly, there was a good quote across my Bloomberg screen this morning that’s worth re-printing here – it sums up my thinking towards the market / investing /...

Champion Stocks all have a long term positive thematic, which should drive superior earnings growth and shareholder value over the coming years, notwithstanding...

On 1 April 2019, Woolworths announced a $1.7B off-market share buy-back. The buy-back will have a $4.79 capital component, with the balance being a fully franked...

Aussie stocks were bullish early thanks to strength overseas – resources the main driver early on pushing the index up to a 6270 high - smack on the high we saw on...

To be a successful equity investor, there are a few very simple tenets to follow if you want to get a head-start – and these include avoiding underperformers and not...

Interest rates around the world, including Australia, have been falling recently. Where conventional wisdom one year ago was for rising rates, now expectations have...

The local market ran with the positive lead out of the US and Europe on Friday night, combining with some better than expected China PMI data to send the index over...

Investors will often be confronted with rip-roaring stocks that are on a high and show no signs of arresting their ascent. In this episode of Buy Hold Sell, we take a...

A bullish day for Aussie equities with the market latching onto strength from our cousins across the ditch, simply ignoring the weakness playing out across US Futures...

Investors’ desire for growth outside of the suffering Australian economy was a major theme to emerge in the February 2019 Reporting Season, particularly in the...

At the start of the year, we announced the ten most tipped stocks from our Livewire reader survey. Three months into the year, this diverse basket is already up by...

Today’s macro backdrop of low rates, a weaker economy and lower local currency creates challenges for investors. However, Macquarie can perform in this environment...

Fidelity's Future Leaders Fund recently made history when it won Morningstar’s small-cap Aussie equities ‘Fund Manager of the Year’ award for the second consecutive...

In the last 117 years, Australia has seen two World Wars, the Great Depression, the introduction of the motor car, 30 Prime Ministers, and every year, Washington H...

Short-term reactionary behaviour is to be expected within every earnings season, and February 2019 was no exception. But opportunities that went misinterpreted or...

With the emergence in recent years of passive Exchange traded funds (ETFs) a ferocious contest has developed between those pushing the virtues of passive investing,...

Growth stocks like Afterpay, Appen and Nearmap that are making waves offshore have been dominating the leader board. Meanwhile, domestic cyclicals have been struggling...

The ASX oscillated in a 30 point range today and was again choppy under the hood – however a more bearish day overall with Materials (for a change) leading the fall. ...

Another very choppy session for the ASX with a lot going on under the surface yet the index finished fairly flat on the day. Banks were weak and the market finds it...

The AREIT sector returned 3.3% over 2018. Compared to Australian equities, down 3.1%, it was a respectable performance considering the wintry outlook predicted by some...