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What you need to know about shorting

On recent trips to the local supermarket you begin to notice that the cost of the shopping appears to be getting a little more expensive. Friends have been talking...
Chad Slater
Chad Slater
Ellerston Capital
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It's a trap! How to avoid this common investing mistake

To be a successful equity investor, there are a few very simple tenets to follow if you want to get a head-start – and these include avoiding underperformers and not...
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Nick Grove
Nick Grove
Livewire Markets
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8 myths peddled as truth

Were we really so credulous? Did we really know so little about foreign food? 62 years ago today, Panorama aired one of the great April Fool’s jokes. The report showed...
Tom Stevenson
Fidelity International
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Media Worth Consuming – March 2019

Stock buybacks are better at getting cash to executives than shareholders. Hedge fund Element Capital has delivered net annual returns of 21% since 2005. A British...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
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Scams and scoundrels: 10 tips to mitigate investment risk

Investing is a difficult exercise for investors, big and small. Below we explore a number of examples and ways to mitigate your investment risk thereby increasing your...
Emanuel Datt
Datt Capital
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Two fundamental rules of property development

The lending practices of the major banks have come under pressure in the wake of the royal commission. It has proven to be a tailwind for an emerging breed of...
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‘Know thyself’... and avoid sinking your own ship

In ancient times early cartographers would illustrate mythological sea monsters into the edges of their maps. The fantastical images of serpents and basilisks...
Christopher Dixon
Christopher Dixon
Cooper Investors
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Time is your friend; impulse is your enemy

Making sensible investment decisions is difficult. We are subject to a range of behavioural biases. We have to cope with incessant noise around financial markets. We...
Joe Wiggins
Joe Wiggins
Aberdeen Standard Investments
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Economic growth is still reasonably healthy

Global economic growth is slowing due to a slowdown in China driven by President Trump’s trade war. This is the conventional wisdom accepted by most and questioned by...
Andrew Macken
Montaka Global Investments
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How the pros invest in a slowing economy

The Australian economy is undoubtedly slowing, which was evident given the number of earnings downgrades and soft results witnessed in the most recent earnings season....
IFM
JBH
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Buy Hold Sell
Livewire Markets
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7 biases to tame for better returns

Behavioural economics moved into the mainstream when psychologist Daniel Kahneman was awarded the Nobel Prize for economics. Ironically, his work was critical of...
Joe Wiggins
Joe Wiggins
Aberdeen Standard Investments
Expert Insights

Don’t sell at the wrong time

More than 10-years on from the GFC, investors are getting nervous again. Spikes in volatility are becoming regular, and the phrase “late-cycle investing” is becoming...
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Six simple steps to improve decision-making

The study of behavioural economics allows us to better understand the decisions we make. We show how behavioural finance can lead to better investment decision making....
Joe Wiggins
Joe Wiggins
Aberdeen Standard Investments
Education

Demystifying fixed income

A fixed income investment is a simple interest only loan. It may be made to a government, semi-government authority or company; as such, fixed income investments are...
Perpetual Asset Management Australia
Perpetual Asset Management (Australia)
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The great myth of emerging companies

One of the great myths of investing in unlisted companies is that investors will never be able to exit the investment. But Jonathan Pearce, Portfolio Manager at the...
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Wilson: Buying a dollar for eighty cents

More than 50% of LICs on the ASX are currently trading at a discount, including more than 30% trading at a discount of 10% or more. Geoff Wilson AO, Chairman and Chief...
WAA
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Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Education

Why active investing still has an edge

January this year brought the sad news that Jack Bogle had died. Mr Bogle, the founder of the Vanguard Group, was the great pioneer of passive investing. Since he...
Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert
abrdn
Expert Insights

Is the glass half full or half empty?

We asked Nikki Thomas from Alphinity to share one of the useful investing lessons that she has picked during her career. Rather than pointing to a specific rule she...
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Under the hood of active ETFs

Do you understand the difference between a managed fund, an actively managed ETF and a passive ETF? Want to know more? You can learn everything you want to know about...
Fidelity International
Fidelity International
Education

What is credit and why it’s important

Fixed income credit is essentially the activity of lending to groups other than Governments (which are regarded as credit risk free) - at least this can be said of the...
Dean Italia
Dean Italia
Medibank Private
Education

The only charts that matter today (part 2)

A good chart distils terabytes of data into a small image that delivers a big message. And to cherry-pick the messages investors need to hear most right now, we asked...
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Why are you accepting more risk for less return?

This is a question that’s currently very relevant for corporate bond investors, particularly in the ‘safe’ investment grade (IG) sector. Since the 2008 financial...
Gopi Karunakaran
Ardea Investment Management
Education

What every investor fears (and what to do about it)

Few things strike more fear into the hearts of investors than waking up to an unexpected “Market Update and Outlook” on a key holding in the portfolio. While it...
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Livewire Markets
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Mindset of an astute investor

Investing is about understanding businesses and as with all things business-related, nothing is ever clearcut. Businesses are comprised of a set of strategies which...
Lawrence Lam
Lumenary Investment Management
Education

The only charts that matter today (part one)

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a chart is worth a million of them. So we asked the experts to isolate the charts you need to be watching right now. Read...
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