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Asset Allocation

The multi-asset perspective, covering trends across key asset classes and relative weightings between them.

Rapid Fire

The one asset class to invest in for the next 12 months (and other allocation insights from one of the best)

Alexandre Ventelon, the Head of Research and Investment Strategy for Morgan Stanley Wealth Management is a young man enjoying an impressive career. His range of...
Matt Buchanan
Matt Buchanan
Asset Allocation

Chris Watling: Recession is not a "slam dunk" but bear market may endure

After hitting a peak of over 4,700 at the end of last year, the S&P 500 has since corrected by more than 20% placing it in a technical bear market (again). In...
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Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Seven key themes for 2022 and beyond

Alongside the terrible human tragedy that has unfolded since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the war has also exaggerated many pre-existing trends. Some include the...
Schroders Australia
Schroders
Asset Allocation

Ben Clark and Charlie Viola on how to keep your head as market panic spirals

The US market officially tipped into bear market territory yesterday, the decline of the S&P 500 now pushing past 20% since the start of the year. The local market...
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CSL
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Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Where to invest as volatility persists and recession fears loom

In the final part of this collection, we turn our attention to some of the types of assets our four contributors are using to construct portfolios or to advise their...
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Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Ron Temple: 30-40% chance of recession, but these asset classes can still outperform

Investing was an easy gig last year. Governments were drunk on fiscal spending, central banks were working overtime printing money, and rates were at zero. “From...
David Thornton
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation
Sponsored

Online event: Turning to Alternatives for uncorrelated returns

Alternatives have long been a mainstay in institutional portfolios, while retail allocations have been much lower. But is that about to change? Volatility in...
Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
Expert Insights

Has the opportunity in Value stocks already passed?

Reddit stocks, SPACs, NFTs, Dogecoin - you name it, financial markets have grown increasingly strange over the past 2 years. Dr Philipp Hofflin of Lazard Asset...
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James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Expert Insights

The dominoes that will fall once inflation peaks out

With headline inflation in the US currently sitting at 8.3%, and Australian inflation comparatively better at 5.1%, WILSONS' David Cassidy believes that there's...
David Thornton
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Why government bonds belong in a balanced portfolio

Between the introduction of modern portfolio construction methods and until very recently, bonds played a key role in most investors’ multi-asset portfolios. In the...
Alex Cathcart
Drummond Capital Partners
Asset Allocation

The Dark Horse Cometh: The real test of Quality stocks may just be starting

'Then another horse came out, a fiery red one. Its rider was given power to take peace from the earth and to make men slay each other. To him was given a large...
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Joseph Koh
Schroders
Asset Allocation

History may be rhyming, but should you really opt to sell in tech?

It’s déjà vu. From the renewal of the Cold War to a 1970s-style energy crisis, we’re running over familiar ground. Then along comes a re-run of the 2000-2003...
Tom Stevenson
Fidelity International
Expert Insights

Ned Bell's six rules for a quality investment

In the world of investing, there is always plenty of chatter about what a "quality" company looks like. Almost everyone would probably agree that profitability is a...
David Thornton
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Are investors too fearful of a recession? This strategist certainly thinks so

Picture it, New York City, September 11th, 2001. I don't have to tell you what happened that day - we all probably remember where we were when we heard the news that...
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Mission Impossible: Will global central banks nail the "soft landing"?

First, it was "unprecedented". Then, it was "transitory". When that left the airwaves, US Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell told us all to "retire" the word in...
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Repositioning portfolios for high inflation

It’s hard to escape commentary on the eruption of inflation. Voters are telling pollsters that ‘cost of living pressures’ are front-of-mind in the context of the...
Jonathan Armitage
MLC Asset Management
Asset Allocation

An economic growth engine

I have a confession. I don’t know much about the inner workings of combustion engines. Starting combustion engines, I know a lot about. Almost half a century of...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Asset Allocation

The risk of a policy mistake

It is no surprise that, given the geopolitical, policy, and market events of the last few months, our market outlook has evolved from the views we expressed in our...
State Street Global Advisors
State Street Global Advisors
Asset Allocation

How to guard your portfolio against bigger crashes

If there is one statistic that has caught Livewire's Hans Lee by surprise of late, it's this: The S&P/ASX 200 VIX has doubled in five months. So how can investors...
BHP
MQG
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Where the new breed of Unicorns will be found (hint: not in tech)

It was 2013 when US venture capital investor Aileen Lee coined the term ‘unicorn’ for private companies valued in excess of $1 billion. As of May 2022, CB Insights...
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Why the growth stock rout is only "30%" complete

The growth trade has undoubtedly been the best trade over the last two years. Tesla is up over  1,400% in the last five years. FAANG stocks have become a go-to...
BHP
CPU
CSL
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Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

BlackRock's Rick Rieder on the "Category 5 hurricane" coming, and where his team is investing

For those who haven't heard of him, Rick Rieder is BlackRock's chief investment officer of global fixed income, head of the global asset allocation team, and chairman...
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Interest rate hikes and high debt suggest the markets, the economy or both will break simultaneously

For most markets and their participants, the extent central banks will move rates is currently the most relevant and important factor for investment decision making....
Jerome Lander
WealthLander
Asset Allocation

Cash is king: Australia's Future Fund retreats out of Russia, risk assets

Everyone is finding it harder to make money - professionals, retail traders, and, as it turns out, the Future Fund. Livewire's Hans Lee takes a deep dive into the...
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Russia is uninvestable, China is not: JP Morgan Asset Management

Uninvestable is a brutal description reserved for extreme situations. Chinese equities is not one of them, says Kerry Craig of JP Morgan Asset Management, who joined...
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
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