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Livewire Summer School: Protecting your portfolio from major downturns

One of the lasting impacts 9 years after the global financial crisis is ultra-low interest rates. This is great if you are a borrower, but not great if you are a saver...
Michael O'Dea
Perpetual Asset Management (Australia)
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The Rules of Investing: The VC's perspective

In Livewire's final podcast for 2017, Livewire's Co-Founder and Managing Director, Tom McKay, sits down with Niki Scevak, Partner and Co-founder of Blackbird Ventures,...
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Podcast: Bitcoin - The best bull market in finance

A 1640% gain in a calendar year is not something you see very often, but that’s what Bitcoin holders have experienced so far in 2017. Jordan Eliseo, Chief Economist at...
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Ophir: Growth hides all sins

There was a time when having exposure to companies with offshore earnings was considered a drag for Aussie investors. Today, however, Australia’s most successful...
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Livewire Christmas Cracker #2: Weed out the false narrative

In our new 'Christmas Cracker' series, each morning through to Christmas we will bring you a top insight from one of our contributors. These will be diverse and could...
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Myth Busting: Global shares can’t deliver attractive income

We often hear the benefits of investing offshore, however, accessing attractive dividends is rarely given as one of them. Analysis from the team at Plato Investment...
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Buying in an information vacuum

A few weeks ago the International Fund invested in a company that couldn’t even publish its accounts on time. The reason? Management couldn’t finalise its sales...
Alvise Peggion
Alvise Peggion
Forager Funds
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The timeless tools of investing

The allure of fast money and the ‘fear of missing out’ toy with investors on a daily basis. Right now valuations of companies exposed to themes like electric vehicles,...
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Our biggest lesson from the GFC

No one wants to catch a falling knife, but once it jabs the floor there’s money to be made. For an early heads-up on when to strike, one way is to track the rate of...
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Charlie Aitken: Setting the trap

One change in the investment landscape is that markets now only price in the present and there’s no great institutional advantage in access to information. That’s the...
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The BIS says we’ll soon have to pay for our private debt binge

There’s no question Australia’s economy has enjoyed a stellar run. The trouble is, it’s largely been a consumer-based, credit-fuelled growth story. And the Bank of...
Andrew Macken
Montaka Global Investments
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Avoid these 11 habits for better performance

For decades, the prevailing view of financial markets was one of rational actors creating efficient prices. In recent years, particularly in the wake of the GFC,...
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If it feels good, it probably isn’t

The concept of ‘herding’ is a powerful lesson that investors should not ignore. Herding is the bias that can lead investors to follow the crowd, whether they genuinely...
Nick Kirrage
Schroders
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Behavioural economics in theory and practice

In my 30 years as an analyst and fund manager, I have seen recurring business situations and patterns of behaviour that often lead to mispricing by the market. This...
Simon Shields
Monash Investors
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The importance of being first

When assessing a new investment, market position is critical to investment success, explains Nick Dignam from BlueSky Private Equity. Often this means looking past the...
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The value of simplicity

Analysing value stocks requires a deep understanding of the underlying assets. In their responses, Nathan Bell from Peters MacGregor, Alex Shevelev from Forager Funds,...
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A beginner’s guide to writing covered calls

The market is range-bound, and many shares just don't seem to be going anywhere. One strategy that we are now getting many questions on is that of covered call...
Michael Gable
Michael Gable
Fairmont Equities
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Don’t get bluffed by the market

The allure of potential ‘multi-baggers’ can be irresistible, but only focussing on the potential upside is ignoring Warren Buffett’s number one rule, ‘don’t lose...
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It’s time to look at value differently

It’s a well-established fact that over the very long-term, ‘value’ portfolios, as measured by price-to-book, price-to-earnings, and dividend yield, tend to outperform...
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The recipe for long-term outperformance

If you want to outperform over the long-term, buying great businesses isn’t enough. Clay Smolinski, Portfolio Manager at Platinum Asset Management, says you need to...
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Avoiding the losers from self-driving cars

At their recent adviser briefing, Magellan CEO, Hamish Douglass, had cars on his mind. Specifically, driverless cars, and what they mean for investors. While many...
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
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Try, fail, learn - repeat!

Steve Johnson does things differently. He views himself as an outsider in the investment community and, for most the most part, his small operation has flown under the...
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Five Ways to Avoid the ‘Value Trap’

Investors with a predisposition to high conviction value investing often need value to be combined with an element of growth. Let’s call it ‘growth-value’. Our...
Robert Miller
NAOS
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Time to think differently

Experiences that have been enjoyable in the past are always sought after into the future. This behaviour is often referred to as 'anchoring'. Andrew Fleming, Deputy...
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Enhance your return, not your risk

There are numerous ways to quantify financial risk, including variance, Beta, and Value at Risk. However, Martin Conlon, Head of Australian Equities at Schroders...
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