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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 Asset Management
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 Asset Management
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...
RMD
Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
Education

7 ways to become a better small cap investor

Last week we published a podcast with a very special guest, Angie Ellis from 8020 investments, who is regarded as one of Australia’s most successful private investors....
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Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Education

The "One-stock portfolio"

Here’s a unique test for investors: If you had to sell down your portfolio and invest it all in just one stock, ask yourself which stock would it be? While we’re not...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
Education

7 ways to support victims of the bushfire crisis

Australia’s bushfire crisis has affected almost everyone in the country in some way this summer. Situations like this really bring out a sense of community, which is...
Patrick Poke
Livewire Markets
Education

The perils of timing the market

With this current bull market in equities now more than 10 years old it is not surprising that some voices are suggesting that investors would be wise to take profits...
Luke McMillan
Luke McMillan
Ophir Asset Management
Expert Insights

Think twice the next time a company spruiks “network effects”

Technology companies are increasingly seducing investors by spruiking their ability to harness “network effects”, whereby the value of their products and services...
Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
Education

New Year's Investment Resolutions: 5 new habits to improve your returns in 2020

It’s never too late to learn new habits or, indeed, break bad ones. The stockmarket is always changing, always challenging and always providing both opportunities and...
Dean Fergie
Cyan Investment Management
Education

6 of the most ‘liked’ wires of 2019

Becoming one of the most engaging wires on Livewire is no easy task. Hard work and great content aside, it contains an ‘X’ factor element that causes the piece to...
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Education

Our formula for earnings resilience

Is it possible to generate attractive returns in today’s uncertain economic and political environment? We think so.In our view, “the formula” for successful investing...
Laura Bottega
Laura Bottega
Morgan Stanley IM
Education

Livewire's 5 most viral videos of 2019

As well as the website, morning note and podcast, Livewire has a YouTube channel. This has taken on a life of its own, with subscribers more than quadrupling to 25,000...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
The Rules of Investing

How an everyday investor competes with the pros

Angie Ellis might not be a 'household name' among investors, but she's racked up quite a track record since she started 8020 Investments about five years ago. See,...
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The Rules of Investing
Livewire Markets
Education

11 favourite quotes from 2019

At Livewire, we’re privileged to have access to some of the best minds in Australia’s funds management industry. Each year we work with and interview hundreds of fund...
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Education

How are the billionaires investing?

This year alone Microsoft founder Bill Gates added over US$22 billion to his personal wealth, now at an eye-popping total of US$113 billion, making him the world’s...
Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Education

Media Worth Consuming – December 2019

Investor sentiment is very bullish, should we be fearful? One-third of S&P 500 companies have seen their year on year earnings decline. Vanilla equity indices are...
Jonathan Rochford
Narrow Road Capital
Buy Hold Sell

9 awful calls from 2019

Each year we run the Livewire Outlook Series where we invite a selection of fund managers to share their prophecies for the new year. But we also enjoy throwing in...
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Buy Hold Sell
Livewire Markets
Rapid Fire

Catherine Allfrey talks winners, losers and white swans

It’s not every day that you sit down with a member of the Australian fund managers hall of fame, let alone the first woman to be inducted. As a 20-year-old female,...
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Bella Kidman
Bella Kidman
Livewire Markets
2020

The One Thing Investors Can't Ignore In 2020

2019. What a year it’s been. Headlines were dominated by trade wars, franking credits, astronomical multiples for tech stocks, failed IPO’s, the long-awaited crash...
Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
Education

20 reading and watching suggestions from The Rules of Investing

Each fortnight on my podcast, The Rules of Investing, I ask my guest whether they’ve read, watched, or listened to anything recently that they really enjoyed, or which...
Patrick Poke
Livewire Markets
Education

A guide to contrarian investing

The contrarian approach to investing is perhaps as old as investing itself. In 1815, the British economist David Ricardo made a fortune buying British government bonds...
Julian Morrison
Julian Morrison
Allan Gray
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