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Asset Allocation

What’s driving the surge in Emerging Market demand?

Emerging market economies have accelerated strongly from their cyclical trough in mid-2023. Normally, such a rise would be greeted with enthusiasm and much discussion...
Tim Toohey
Yarra Capital Management
Asset Allocation

Buying & building industry leading businesses | Chris Mauss

Murdoch speaks with Chris Mauss the Managing Director, Private Equity at Partners Groups about investments, opportunities & outlook.
Murdoch Gatti
York Wealth Management
Asset Allocation
Sponsored

Equity markets: Red hot or red herring?

After a stellar run in late 2023, global equity markets have assumed a holding pattern as they await rate cuts. Here at home, with CPI surprising to the upside, a soft...
Schroders Australia
Schroders
Asset Allocation

Soft landing or recession? These 3 economic indicators will tell you the answer

The equity rally reflects optimism about AI-driven growth. But downside risks remain. Here are three scenarios to help manage portfolios.
Isaac Poole
Ascalon Capital
Asset Allocation

The best defence is a good offense

In early January, investor sentiment slid towards defensive assets amid growing wariness of economic conditions and potentially stretched valuations.(1) This could...
Scott Helfstein
Global X ETFs
Asset Allocation

Outlook for junior miners, uranium, copper, oil & gas | John Forwood

Murdoch speaks with John Forwood the CIO at Lowell Resources about the outlook for Junior miners, Uranium, Copper, Gold, Lithium, Oil & Gas.
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Murdoch Gatti
York Wealth Management
The Rules of Investing

Where Soul Patts is investing for long term growth and dividends

With a market cap over $12 billion Soul Patts is now an ASX50 stock and there’s no signs of a slowdown.
The Rules of Investing
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Important value signals for global equities

How value signals (and relative value) work in the case of global equities
Callum Thomas
Topdown Charts
Views from the Top

Fidelity's Global CIO shares his 4 favourite asset classes for 2024

Global CIO Andrew McCaffery also tells me that their predictions for a soft landing have more than doubled in just the last three months.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Beware the great equity unwind

Equity investors are focused on a potential soft landing. Longer-term they may face bigger headaches.
Lakshman Anantakrishnan
ANZ Private
Asset Allocation

Art of smoothing returns in global markets | Hugh Selby-Smith

Murdoch speaks with Hugh Selby-Smith, the Co-CIO at Talaria Capital about global equities and smoothing returns via option strategies.
Murdoch Gatti
York Wealth Management
Asset Allocation

How alternatives can address your 60/40 portfolio blues

Individual investors have long been told that a diversified portfolio of public equities and bonds is the key to a successful retirement plan. While that held true for...
Apollo Global Management
Apollo Global Management
Rapid Fire

Mid-caps the place to be in a soft landing: Fidelity

Fidelity International's Global CIO answers five of our Rapid Fire questions.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Rapid Fire

2 things that could upset the market consensus in 2024

Lazard's Chief Market Strategist Ron Temple answers our pressing questions in a classic edition of Livewire's Rapid Fire.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Views from the Top

Why Lazard's Temple would buy equities over bonds even at today's prices

Lazard's chief market strategist Ron Temple updates his views on the US economy, China, fixed income, and geopolitical risk.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Six grey swans that could move markets in 2024

That the future is always uncertain is a given, yet thinking about scenarios that diverge from a base case helps inform the risk-aware approaches we apply across our...
Lori Heinel
State Street Global Advisors
Asset Allocation

Not middle of the pack: Why we back Australian mid-caps

Where Auscap Asset Management finds sustainable earners at reasonable prices, including three mid-cap stock examples.
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Tim Carleton
Auscap Asset Management
Asset Allocation

Markets are overpriced, but we see opportunity in these 5 areas

The Affluence Investor Letter looks back on 2023, our investment performance, and where we see attractive opportunities for 2024.
Daryl Wilson
Affluence Funds Management
Asset Allocation

The year ahead for the major sectors

Perspectives outlining some of the key themes we think will drive the major industry sectors in 2024.
Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman
Asset Allocation

Private credit is a globally attractive opportunity – investors should take notice

The global private credit market has more than tripled over the past 10 years.
Nehemiah Richardson
Pengana Capital Group
Asset Allocation

Is the Fed running late to the Goldilocks party?

Patience needed on US rate cut prospects
David Cassidy
Wilsons Advisory
Asset Allocation

Investing In Private Growth Tech Businesses | Dan Winter & Rowan Grant

Murdoch speaks with Dan Winter & Rowan Grant, the founders & PM's at Arbor Capital about investing in private tech.
Murdoch Gatti
York Wealth Management
Asset Allocation

12 ideas for investing in a "Donald Rumsfeld-ian world"

2024 has been a harder year to predict than 2023, and it shows in the wide array of high-level views and top conviction ideas.
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Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation
Sponsored

2024 ETF Playbook: Coming in to land

Having enjoyed a better than feared consumer-led recovery from COVID lockdowns, Australia’s economy in recent years has quickly been beset by a new problem: very high...
Patrick Poke
Patrick Poke
Betashares
Outlook Series

We asked you where markets will be in 2024: Here's what 5000 of you said

This wire unpacks the key insights from the recent Outlook Series survey, in which nearly 5000 Livewire & Market Index readers participated
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Livewire Markets
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