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Seven tips on selecting assets for your portfolio

What have we learned over the past seven decades in multi-asset, and how does it relate to what we can expect in the future? A lot has changed in financial markets...
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Schroders
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How to vastly improve your portfolio: A real-life case-study

Following Medallion Financials recent Livewire education piece “How to transform your portfolio” , I thought this Wire would be worthwhile in order to add further...
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Michael Wayne
Medallion Financial Group
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How to transform your portfolio

The majority of Australians' portfolios, for better or worse, suffer from a little thing called "concentration risk". In fact, Medallion Financial Group's Michael...
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Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
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What really drives rotations from growth to value stocks?

One of the prevailing investment themes of the past decade has been the long-term underperformance of value stocks versus growth stocks. Many have blamed falling bond...
Schroders Australia
Schroders
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Savvy Australian investors are diversifying with Israeli innovation stocks

A Q&A with one of Israel’s leading equity fund managers. Q. What does Alpha LTI invest in? A. Alpha LTIs investable universe includes listed and pre-IPO companies...
Gabi Dishi
Gabi Dishi
Pengana Capital Group
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Setting and understanding investment goals

Why invest The simple answer to the fundamental question of why we invest is of course to make money. Perhaps to build personal wealth, or perhaps to build a...
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Michael Goldberg
Collins St Value Fund
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Governance of technology and COVID-19

The global response to COVID-19 has been nothing short of a technological revolution in the healthcare sector. Perhaps most remarkable has been the speed with which...
Ted Franks
Pengana Capital Group
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Why equities are still king

Even before the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, investors faced significant challenges building long-term wealth. With a muted outlook for economic growth and...
Andrew Mitchell
Ophir Asset Management
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Protection finally cheaper just as markets push higher

With markets testing new all-time highs, volatility is finally starting to decline with the VIX Index recently touching post-Covid lows, closing near 16 on Friday....
Alastair MacLeod
Elston Asset Management
Education

Funding non-bank lenders

The lending landscape in Australia has changed significantly over the past two decades. Twenty years ago, banks in Australia controlled over 80% of both business and...
Chris Black
Chris Black
Alexander Funds Management
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Australian ETF Review – Raise the bat!

The Australian ETF industry now exceeds $100 billion in funds under management (FUM), topping the milestone figure for the first time just three months after the end...
Ilan Israelstam
Betashares
Education

Your most-asked ETF questions answered

There are so many things in life that remain unanswered: how to cure hiccups, why time runs in only one direction, why there is only one word for thesaurus. However,...
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Livewire Markets
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Back to Basics: Choosing the right broker for you

Education, education, education. You asked for it and we listened. In our annual reader survey, it was one of the most requested topics for the Livewire team to cover....
Nicholas Plessas
Nicholas Plessas
Livewire
Education

A guide to a more sustainable portfolio

From small beginnings, environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors have become important considerations for asset managers globally. As you will see in this...
Masja Zandbergen
Masja Zandbergen
Robeco
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How to build your investments with a capital structure

To invest well, you need to consider your financial goals, investing time frame and risk tolerance. Investment risk is the likelihood that you’ll lose some or all the...
Philip Ryan
Trilogy Funds
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Where exactly are we in the recovery?

After a year in which Britain almost succumbed to a different sort of wide-ranging existential threat to survival, the words uttered by Winston Churchill in 1940...
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Investors beware: “News” impairs your mental and physical wellbeing

In my previous wire, I showed that overconsumption of news misinforms investors and wastes their time. But that’s not all: in this article, I cite evidence that...
Chris Leithner
Leithner & Company Ltd
Education

From classic cars to crazy art: How to turn passion into profit

There are those that collect for the joy of it. Fine wines, postcards from far-off places, stamps from all-too-often forgotten eras, playing cards reminiscent of our...
Ally Selby
Livewire Markets
Education

Five ways young people can learn to invest (not gamble) in shares

Surging markets in the wake of COVID-19 have attracted a new generation of first-time investors. But rather than invest using time-honoured principles, many are...
Dan Miles
Dan Miles
Innova Asset Management
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Know your enemy: defining (and dodging) dividend traps

Income investors, many aged 65-years and over, were knocked for six last year as dividends dried up. Each of Australia’s big four banks either suspended or slashed...
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Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
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Media worth consuming: March 2021

A monthly wrap-up of interesting and informative media on finance, economics, politics and society that you might have missed.American margin debt is continuing to...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Education

Why franking credits underpin Aussie dividends

It’s no mistake that Australian investors receive some of the highest dividends in the world. Our generous franking credit tax breaks go a long way toward explaining...
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Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
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The catastrophe and opportunity of climate change

Global warming is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century. Unaddressed, modelling demonstrates it will have a potentially catastrophic impact on our planet...
Ilan Israelstam
Betashares
Education

Finding sustainable sources of investment income

Australian investors love dividends. The topic of investment yield was a battleground issue in our most recent federal election, and it’s never far away from the minds...
Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
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How to uncover the next Afterpay

Everyone has an Afterpay story. Or at least, most of the investors I know. Personally, I was told by multiple analysts to invest in early 2018, when its share price...
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