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What is your #1 source of investment ideas and insights?

Generating new ideas is an essential part of the investing process, however, the search can be time-consuming and daunting. Most of us rely on a few trusted sources...
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Education

Should you trust ratings agencies?

Our investment objective is to grow our funds in hard currency over the long term by investing in companies that have sustainable business models and a...
Rishi Patel
Rishi Patel
BMO
Education

Buffett: Trouble is always coming, buy stocks anyway

Six days was all it took for the S&P 500 to tumble more than 10% by late last week. That’s the quickest correction in history, according to Deutsche Bank Global...
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Expert Insights

The secret to getting rich (slowly)

The concept of compounding may be boring but Bruno Paulson, Portfolio Manager at Morgan Stanley Investment Management, believes more investors should be focused on the...
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Livewire Markets
Education

The rise and rise of unlisted assets

A combination of higher yields, lower volatility, and reduced correlations to traditional assets have seen a boom in unlisted investments in recent years. For example,...
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Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Education

A call for action to stop you being imminently “coronered”

Let us examine what happens when the clear and present danger from the coronavirus meets the global asset bubble, your portfolio and the industry standard investment...
Jerome Lander
WealthLander
Education

Six Buffett insights from the Berkshire Hathaway letter

Over the weekend, Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.B) released its 2019 Annual Report along with Warren Buffett’s highly coveted letter to shareholders, one of the most...
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Education

This year's new killer

New diseases have a particular power to capture the imagination. There’s just a lot about them which is scary. They grow and spread fast. We’re accustomed to thinking...
Ted Franks
Pengana Capital Group
Education

The big money is made in the waiting

The most common question investors are asking me today is, “Is now the time to go to cash?” Volatility, uncertainty, complexity, ambiguity. This is the reality equity...
Patrick Hodgens
Firetrail Investments
Education

The converging worlds and diverging interests of equity and bond investors

Investors are used to thinking of equities and corporate bonds separately. However, in reality, they are two sides of the same coin and actions which favour one can...
Schroders Australia
Schroders
Education

Bond yields can be misleading

How can a negative yield bond deliver a positive return, or a positive yield bond deliver a loss?Those used to conventional bond investments tend to focus on a bond...
Gopi Karunakaran
Ardea Investment Management
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Healthy strategies for infected markets

Buoyed by the US-China trade deal agreement, stock markets marched in unison to record highs at the start of 2020. That was until coronavirus started dominating...
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Livewire Markets
Education

How to tell when the market's bottomed

If you’ve never heard of billionaire investor, Stephen A Schwarzman, you’re not alone. Despite being one of the founders of Blackstone Group, worth over $20 billion,...
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Education

Is there a trade-off between ‘doing the right thing’ and long-term success?

It is now 50 years, half a century, since the economist Milton Friedman argued that the sole purpose of business was to generate profits for shareholders. He did have...
Bruno Paulson
Morgan Stanley IM
Education

The problem with crooks

I received an email from a member recently asking if the course offered by *********** is worth going to. They want $4500 for a two day course that says they’ll teach...
Marcus Padley
Marcus Today
Education

5 ways to turn down the noise around investing

2020 has seen a very noisy start to the year with one major event with significant human and investment market implications after another. For Australia it started...
Shane Oliver
AMP
Rapid Fire

The real money to be made is in private companies

The real money with growth-stage companies is often made by investing when they are still private. As an extreme example, some investors turned a $5,000 investment...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
Reporting Season

Rudi’s four tips for reporting season success

Over the next three weeks, the majority of ASX listed companies will open their books and give investors a clearer picture of their health and their future prospects....
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James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Education

When will this equity bull market end?

Imagine investing your savings into financial securities that are guaranteed to lose you money. Sound strange? You don’t have to spread your imagination too thinly...
Pengana Capital
Pengana Capital
Pengana Capital Group
Education

10 books to hone your investing skills

"I just sit in my office and read all day." Warren Buffett Whilst we might not have the time to sit and read all day, we do believe that the stories and lessons...
NAOS Asset Management
NAOS Asset Management
NAOS
Education

10 reasons to own a convertible

Convertibles are a unique asset class often overlooked by debt and equity investors. They offer the best of both worlds in that they share the ideal features of the...
Arnaud Brillois
Arnaud Brillois
Lazard Asset Management
Education

The ten best podcasts from last year

Podcasts have very quickly become an excellent medium for absorbing all kinds of information. Searching for a new podcast series can be as daunting as scrolling...
Robert Miller
NAOS
Education

It’s not always bad to play with knives

Catching a falling knife is usually a bad idea. Get it even slightly wrong and you’ll probably lose a finger or two. Don’t try and catch a falling knife is a warning...
Chris Hestelow
Allan Gray
Education

Measuring performance: Money vs Time weighted returns and why they should matter to you

An often-overlooked topic we come across is understanding how to correctly measure the returns investments earn. And although calculating the return of an investment...
Luke McMillan
Luke McMillan
Ophir Asset Management
Expert Insights

How to tell a turnaround from a portfolio bomb

It can be a difficult task separating those stocks which are poised for a turnaround and those which are set to implode. But as Greig Bryson of Nikko Asset Management...
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