Home Wires

Education

Professional investors distill techniques to improve and simplify investing.

Education

High valuations – not rising bond yields – threaten American stocks

Rising yields are usually unimportant. In sharp contrast, valuations are always crucial. Australian and value stocks abate this major risk.
Chris Leithner
Leithner & Company Ltd
Education

What is the ideal entrepreneurial salary?

The answer is $131,600 per annum. With the Australian small company tax rate set at 25% up to $50M revenue, you need >20% operating income.
Kingsley Jones
Jevons Global
Education

Media worth consuming – June 2026

Interesting and under the radar media on finance, economics, politics and society.
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Education

Rising risk in subordinated property development debt?

When the arms of the vice - declining GRV & senior debt accruing default interest - begin to close, subordinated debt investors are at risk.
Patrick William
Rixon Capital
Wealth

The investing mistakes advisers want you to stop making

Four financial advisers share the most common mistakes they see that are costing investors their long-term wealth.
Keith Ford
Livewire Markets
Wealth

3 EOFY wins: Lower tax, grow your super, invest smarter

The end of financial year can create planning opportunities that may benefit your wealth long after June 30.
Sara Allen
Livewire Markets
Education

The tax value of deferred capital gains

The single greatest force for the good of your portfolio is compounding. Tax eats into that compounding so you should defer capital gains.
Kingsley Jones
Jevons Global
Education

Safe as houses: how property tax reform could re-rate the share market

The ALPs proposed tax changes could fundamentally change the way capital flows in Australia. We ask who are the most likely beneficiaries.
Michael Goldberg
Collins St Asset Management
Wealth

3 pieces of investing wisdom that need to be chucked out (and 1 that should stay)

Cliches exist for a reason, but some of the well-worn wisdom that has driven investors for decades may need to go.
Keith Ford
Livewire Markets
Wealth

The stay-at-home mum caught in Labor's CGT crossfire

Morgans warns Labor's proposed 30% base capital gains tax could crush the after-tax returns of Australia's forgotten investors.
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Education

World Cup fever: insights from the wisdom of crowds

What a simple model reveals about the World Cup, the wisdom of crowds and where that wisdom runs out.
Evan Metcalf
Savana Active ETFs
Education

Henry Jennings on the ASX, the Budget, AI IPOs and "weird" billionaires

The market commentator and analyst shares his thoughts on everything from ETFs to Elon Musk.
Tom Stelzer
Livewire Markets
Education

What England's overrated football team teaches us about investing

It's not coming home.
David Tuckwell
ETF Shares
Retirement

How much do you need for retirement?

The target isn’t as simple as the old $1 million myth.
Sara Allen
Livewire Markets
Education

One lesson from 20 years of investing

'Extraordinary' returns are achievable, but not how you may think.
Romano Sala Tenna
Katana Asset Management
Education

The stock that got away: The ASX play Jun Bei Liu was happy to watch from the sidelines

Ten Cap's Jun Bei Liu on the stock she sold early and why it was the right call even if it left money on the table.
SGM
Tom Stelzer
Livewire Markets
Retirement

Are Australians overestimating their retirement nest egg needs?

Do you need $1 million to retire comfortably or is it just the fear of running out taking over?
Keith Ford
Livewire Markets
Education

Media worth consuming – May 2026

Interesting and under the radar media on finance, economics, politics and society.
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Wealth

"There is one clear asset that wins": Daniel Kelly and Chris Brycki look at the winners and losers of tax changes

Viola's Daniel Kelly sees pain for growth assets, renters and first-home buyers. Chris Brycki fears behavioural fallout.
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Markets

3 reasons why it pays to be an optimist as an investor

From loss aversion to information overload, investors are being bombarded by reasons to panic. Here’s why staying optimistic still pays.
Shane Oliver
AMP
Education

Who cut the RBA's brake wires?

C. Joye sees a now entrenched inflation problem, and a paralysed RBA. And sounds like we are in desperate times. So, desperate measures?
AMP
APZ
+21
Ryan Lim
Alpha Insights
Education

The fee spread question ASIC is asking — and private credit investors should too

Same net return. Very different risk. The gap between what borrowers pay and investors receive matters more than many investors realise.
Patrick William
Rixon Capital
The Rules of Investing

A familiar voice returns to The Rules of Investing

After four years away, Patrick Poke returns to host The Rules of Investing alongside James Marlay.
The Rules of Investing
Livewire Markets
Wealth

How Labor could sting you with 70% CGT for buying and selling shares

Love stock picking? Labor’s CGT changes could leave you walking into a tax bomb, according to modelling by Stockspot's Chris Brycki.
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Wealth

Broken trusts: The 70% tax trap facing corporate beneficiaries

Discretionary trusts are set to be hit with a minimum tax rate of 30%, so what are the alternatives for structuring wealth?
Keith Ford
Livewire Markets
51-75 of 1937