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Risk on / Risk Off - Diversification is key in volatile markets.

As we look forward into 2019, conditions for equity investors remain mixed. Global growth has been slowing with rising US interest rates, trade wars and Brexit....
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Catherine Allfrey
WaveStone Capital
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Four questions you should ask a fund manager

On Tuesday in Christchurch, Platinum Asset Management presented a grant to the Crusaders as winners of Australasia’s Best Sporting Team. This grant will be used to...
Douglas Isles
Platinum Asset Management
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The value in being contrarian

Contrarians can be a lot like teenagers: they think they’re all different but end up looking the same. This however, is not true of this week’s guest, Tim Hillier from...
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Asia – where your portfolio needs to be

Asia is the best structural growth story in the world driven by strong demographics, a rising middle class, infrastructure build and technological leapfrogging. We...
Mary Manning
Alphinity Investment Management
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Wilson: Have we seen the top of the market?

This year’s Wilson Asset Management shareholder presentations marked a changing of the guard at the firm; for the first time in nine years, the meeting was not...
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Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
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Matthew Kidman: Uncut

Regular readers of Livewire will know Matthew Kidman from his role as ‘Anchorman’ for the popular Buy Hold Sell video series, and for expertly moderating panel...
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James Marlay
Livewire Markets
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The hardest thing in investing

Picking stocks is hard, but knowing when to sell them is even harder. As holders of stocks like Afterpay, A2 Milk and Appen have found recently, the urge to sell can...
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Better governance, Better returns

Numerous academic and industry research papers support the view that effective corporate governance has a significant impact on the performance of that company as an...
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Platinum: The opportunity of a generation

If you’d invested $20k with Platinum Asset Management when the firm opened in 1995 you’d be sitting on around $320k today, a return of ~12.6% per annum*. However, the...
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Location & Timing: The rules of property investing

With all the focus on residential property, investors could be forgiven for forgetting that other property classes exist. But between office, industrial, retail, and...
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Five Investment Principles for Today

History shows that the market is more discerning in tough times as opposed to when things are going swimmingly, when many less-than-stellar companies are carried along...
Warryn Robertson
Lazard Asset Management
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Do good, feel good and make money

Last week the Bank of England put top executives at banks and insurers on high alert to vastly improve their planning for the long-term risks of climate change. The FT...
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A message for those ‘playing at home’

In an age of social media and smartphones, the challenges faced by investors today are decidedly different to just a few decades ago. With algorithms serving us a...
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The Golden Rule

There are only two times in history that the market has been more expensive than today; March of 2000, and in 1929. Students of financial history would recognise these...
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ROI: Making money from market falls

In market sell-offs like we’ve experienced this week, it’s hard to find anything that’s unaffected by the selling. The ASX200 was down 4.9% before trading opened on...
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What to do when your holding gets crushed!

(Editor's Note: While this article was first published in 2018, we feel this blast from the past is timely given recent market conditions).With the NASDAQ down more...
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How to make better forecasts

Making accurate predictions is hard, especially about the future. Chris Rands, Portfolio Manager at Nikko Asset Management, says that he likes to focus on demographics...
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The best time to sell a stock

So much energy and focus are devoted towards finding new investment ideas. However, knowing when to sell receives far less attention, yet is undoubtedly one of the...
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The stocks Peter Lynch would avoid today

The global population is on track to hit 9.1 billion people by 2050 and we know, with a high level of certainty, what the breakdown of that population will be. When we...
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Lessons from Warren Buffett's mentor

It’s rare to see investors agree on a topic, but when Livewire recently reached out to Roger Montgomery, Ben Rundle, and Jason Teh to find out which ‘super investor’...
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How to Invest in Emerging Markets

A few months ago, local brokers in Manila were wondering what was I doing in their city. Apparently I was a year late. While in 2017 the local bourse jumped 25%, since...
Alvise Peggion
Alvise Peggion
Forager Funds
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Benefiting from bad news

One of the most fundamental principles of capitalism tells us that large am ounts of competition drives down returns. Investing is no different. Justin Koonin,...
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Five myths of diversification

Diversification is one of the basic principles of finance, but it’s also often misunderstood. As one of the few genuine ‘free lunches’ in finance, it’s worth busting...
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Turn a threat into an opportunity

‘Economic moats’ allow companies to maintain their competitive advantage, so are essential for long-term profitability, but also for responding to a structural threat....
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10 questions with Chris Prunty from QVG Capital

Small companies continue to attract attention from investors while large caps deal with sector specific and macro headwinds. I took the opportunity to fire 10...
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James Marlay
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