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The keys to well-balanced long-term investing success

An advocate for mothers and work/life balance, Nicolette Rubinzstein was named one of Australia’s top 10 most powerful part-timers. She successfully balances...
Douglas Isles
Platinum Asset Management
Meet The Investor

Meet Jim: The investor sailing through his retirement

Jim, like many of our readers, spends his days investing and thinking about markets. But unlike many, he does it aboard a boat.  Jim and his wife, Adriana, have been...
AMN
AR9
BHP
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Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
Decarbonisation

Meet Dave: The adviser who thinks far beyond financial returns

About seven years ago, Dave decided to explore the world of ethical and sustainable investment. Initially, it was just so he could better help a handful of clients...
FMG
GNX
IPL
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Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
Education

The understated power of simple investment decisions

Investment portfolios represent the culmination of several decisions. The quality of these decisions varies, and it is important to align your risk exposure...
Ken Liow
Realm Investment House
Education

Meet Daniel: A cross-country adviser kicking goals for young families

Daniel is what some might call a vagabond. Born to a roving police officer in Darwin, he recalls growing up in four different towns across the Top End before...
BHP
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Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Decarbonisation

Net-zero by 2050 is unlikely: So here's how you should invest

There are very few people that I would be happy to spend my Thursday evening speaking to late into the night. But, abrdn's Jeremy Lawson happens to be one of them. ...
Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
Decarbonisation

Carbon is an emerging asset class that could potentially rival the global oil market in size

Carbon markets (together with carbon taxes) are a critical instrument in a broad toolkit to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and therefore climate change. The EU...
Andrew McAuley
Credit Suisse
Education

Media Worth Consuming – April 2022

In case you missed it, here is Jonathan Rochford of Narrow Road Capital's famous (and long list) of the most interesting and under-the-radar articles worth reading...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Education

Superbugs are outsmarting antibiotics

In 1938, Ernst Chain, a German-born biochemist working at Oxford University, found an article on penicillin written nine years earlier by UK bacteriologist Alexander...
Michael Collins
Michael Collins
Magellan Investment Partners
Decarbonisation

Savvy investors will embrace decarbonisation

Earlier this month the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) released their latest Working Group Report titled Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate...
Alex Debney
Alex Debney
Conscious Investment Management
Meet The Adviser

Meet Trent: His biggest concerns are scams, charlatans, unlicensed advisers, and reducing his handicap

Trent isn't your typical adviser (or golfer, for that matter). He spent over a decade working in global investment banking and capital markets in Sydney and Japan,...
Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
Decarbonisation

This is the world's biggest social and economic risk

Real change is needed now if we have any hope of limiting global warming to 1.5°C. Even during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when much of the world's...
Dr Stuart Palmer
Dr Stuart Palmer
Australian Ethical
Decarbonisation

Get ready for our first ever Megatrend Series

More than 4,000 Livewire readers told us that decarbonisation was the number one megatrend they were looking to add to their portfolio in 2022. So, this week we’re...
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Buy Hold Sell

How to build a (multi) million-dollar portfolio with ETFs

While it's become something of an investing trope that the first million is the hardest to make, it's true. In fact, the advisers featured in this episode say it can...
Buy Hold Sell
Livewire Markets
Meet The Adviser

Meet Nicola: The adviser with a killer car (and a kind heart)

Nicola isn't exactly a hard nut to crack. She's wonderfully warm and genuine, openly sharing her story with this writer as if we had been friends for decades (and...
Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
Education

America’s permanent recession: Is it coming to Australia?

It’s a never-ending ritual: many people hype current (and try to guess upcoming) national income statistics such as Gross Domestic Product – or heed those who do. The...
Chris Leithner
Leithner & Company Ltd
Education

Could yesterday's winners become tomorrow's losers?

For over a decade conditions for most asset classes could hardly have been better with low interest rates and benign volatility. This was underpinned and turbo charged...
Joy Yacoub
Joy Yacoub
Pella Funds Management
Education

The Easter Bunny faces rising inflation

Here's something unexpected: A chocolate index. Anthony Doyle from Firetrail Investments explains more, assessing whether you can expect your just desserts this Easter...
Anthony Doyle
Anthony Doyle
Firetrail Investments
Education

Tesla’s magic pizza?

It seems an appropriate time to introduce you to my 11 year old son Charlie as he will be mentioned here and likely in future articles. We discuss a broad range of...
David Guy
Leithner & Company Ltd
Education

What our recession dashboard is telling us

The aggressive flattening of the 10-year versus two-year Treasury curve has spurred much market discussion. Like our fellow investors, we are closely watching the...
Schroders Australia
Schroders
Education

We live in a finite world

Spaceship Earth, together with its local galaxies, is speeding through our part of the universe at over 600 miles per second. The good news is that no Klingon battle...
Jeremy Grantham
GMO
Education

WAM Alternative Assets Megatrends Series | Digitalisation

The WAM Alternative Assets Megatrends Series explores the long-term megatrends that the WAM Alternative Assets (ASX: WMA) portfolio can access through investing in...
Dania Zinurova
Education

Why AI is today’s most important investment theme (and the safest way to profit)

Most investors are aware that artificial intelligence, or AI, is an important technological transformation. Yet many still underestimate the sheer power of this...
Andrew Macken
Montaka Global Investments
Meet The Adviser

Meet Felicity: The adviser with steady hands and a stomach for volatility

Felicity had a plan. She would study Property Economics at university, find her feet in property development, and eventually, take over the family business. But a...
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Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
Meet The Adviser

Meet Robert: Fed up with the noise, this adviser has a few secret weapons

In the second edition of our new series Meet the Adviser, Robert Baharian lays it all on the table and shares the ETFs that both he and his clients use for long-term...
Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
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