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Active vs passive: 2 reasons why active wins

Passive investing has surged in popularity in the past decade, and more recently during Covid-19. According to Morningstar, Australians poured $24.5 billion into...
Chris Demasi
Montaka Global Investments
The Rules of Investing

In a world of uncertainty, cash flow remains king

Katie Hudson's career is full of bold moves. Beginning as a sell-side analyst, she moved to Goldman Sachs in June 2008 during the midst of a raging GFC. From there,...
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Angus Kennedy
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Off The Charts! JPMorgan's crypto-180, Afterpay-day, and a housing handbrake ahead

Today, well over half the population of Australia is in some form of lockdown. Despite this terrible cloud overhanging the nation, vaccination rates are slowly...
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How does ETF liquidity work?

ETF liquidity – everyone wants it, and sure enough, the most common questions clients ask us at ETF Securities are about liquidity. Investors want assurance that ETFs...
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kanish chugh
Global X ETFs
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Picking the winners from "creative disruption"

As investment managers, we deliberately narrow our investment universe, leaving large swathes of the market we would never approve for investment. Sometimes this means...
Vihari Ross
Vihari Ross
Magellan
Reporting Season

Rudi: It’s the healthiest bull market we’ve seen in years

If there were any doubts that the market is in the early stages of a new bull market, then those doubts can now be laid to rest. That’s the view of Rudi...
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James Marlay
Livewire Markets
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Michelle Lopez: 4 big investing lessons you can teach kids of any age

Michelle Lopez, Head of Australian Equities at Aberdeen Standard Investments, got her fierce work ethic and sensible attitude to investing from her parents....
Mia Kwok
Mia Kwok
Livewire Markets
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9 fund managers share their one big idea for the year ahead

If the world thought 2020 was "unprecedented", then what, my friends, could we describe as the seven months we have seen so far of 2021?  In just over half a year,...
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Another reason to consider private equity

With the value of US equity markets more than doubling over the past decade, it is surprising to see that the number of companies on US exchanges is rapidly...
Sam Armstrong
Barwon Investment Partners
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Fast food (passive) vs restaurant dining (active)

Food and investing. Strange bedfellows in a Livewire piece. Or maybe not. COVID lockdowns have catapulted both. According to Nielsen research, Australians are spending...
Chris Meyer
Pinnacle Investment Management Limited
Education

Why standing apart stands out

Value investing and contrarian investing are intrinsically related. Value investing seeks to identify good quality companies that are trading cheaply. To achieve that...
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Michael Goldberg
Collins St Value Fund
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Media Worth Consuming – July 2021

A monthly wrap-up of interesting and informative media on finance, economics, politics and society that you might have missed.Individual American investors are...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Rapid Fire

An 8 sector strategy for killer performance

Most teenagers spend their waking hours daydreaming about the opposite sex, trying their first alcoholic beverage (in my case, Passion Pop), and engaging in other...
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Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
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Off The Charts! Aussie mining earnings, ranking the FAANGs reporting, and the Tassie crypto king falls

Reporting season is underway, so this week we'll be looking at which companies not only met their optimistic earnings targets but knocked them out of the park, as well...
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Timing the market

You might think investors are worried about two contradictory things at the moment: Last week's concern about too much inflation on both sides of the Atlantic; this...
Tom Stevenson
Fidelity International
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Why cryptocurrencies may transform capital markets

Whether investors welcome it - or even realise it - cryptocurrency, or crypto, is having an impact on their portfolios. The immense size of the cryptocurrency...
T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price
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The trends that will shape the next decade

The 2021 Fidelity Investment Forum webinar presented a chance to reflect on the past and consider the future pathway being paved. It has been a long time since there...
Angus Kennedy
Livewire Markets
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Growth at an unreasonable price

James Anderson, the star stock-picker of Baillie Gifford’s Scottish Mortgage Investment Trust, announced in March that he will hand over the reins of the fund....
Chris Demasi
Montaka Global Investments
Education

End lockdowns faster with basic economics

By now it is obvious that Australia’s chosen pathway to managing Covid and ending lockdowns requires a greater uptake of vaccinations. The odds of dying from the...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Education

Off the Charts! Crown and Star part, Kelly Slater surfs the Crypto wave, and a bid to make Bezos stay in space

Welcome back to Off the Charts! bringing you everything you need to know from markets (and some things you don't). The world of crypto was as bonkers as ever this...
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There's no such thing as bad publicity (apparently)

The phrase 'There's no such thing as bad publicity' is the notion that all mentions in the media aid a person's cause, even if they put them in a bad light, coined by...
Chris Meyer
Pinnacle Investment Management Limited
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Five tips for your new financial year investment portfolio review

The past financial year was unlike any other.As we continued managing the impacts from COVID-19, we saw many economic changes that may have significantly affected your...
Philip Ryan
Trilogy Funds
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Lives v livelihoods, and other COVID lessons

Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, hit Taiwan hard in 2003. The virus tore through several hospitals and Heping hospital in Taipei was hastily closed,...
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Michael Collins
Magellan
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Keynes as investor-speculator

John Maynard Keynes (the First Baron Keynes of Tilton, 1883-1946) is usually remembered as the author of The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money (1936)...
Chris Leithner
Leithner & Company Ltd
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How private loan transactions are negotiated to deliver investment returns

Investors may not realise that under the hood of a private debt fund are many individually negotiated loans that ensure unitholders receive a certain monthly income...
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