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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
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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
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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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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
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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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Quiet day from an index perspective but huge moves at the stock level

Reporting hit a peak today with around 35 companies out with results and once again, we’ve had some significant moves across the market. From what I can see 25 large...
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James Gerrish
Market Partners
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The only certainty in investing is uncertainty

Donald Rumsfeld famously called them ‘known-unknowns’ - things we sense are important but don’t fully understand and cannot predict. Bob Dylan put it well, too, when...
Tom Stevenson
Fidelity International
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The Future of Active ETFs has landed

ActiveX is series of actively-managed Exchange Traded Funds that have been created by Fidante Partners to provide easier access to the strategies of some of...
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Podcast: Investing in Global Disruption with Jeff Cole

This week’s guest on the podcast is Jeff Cole, Founder and Director of The Center for the Digital Future, and a member of the investment committee for the E&P Global...
The Rules of Investing
Livewire Markets
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How to assess management before buying shares

Management is a key factor in a stock's success. Given the relatively nimble nature of small to mid-cap companies, these businesses are particularly exposed to the...
Catriona Burns
Wilson Asset Management
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Active ETFs and Vegemite

Active exchange traded funds (ETFs) are a great Aussie invention for investors as well as being a global leading product. They combine the benefits of active fund...
Chris Meyer
Pinnacle Investment Management Limited
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Finding security in a time of volatility

The last four months have been especially testing for investors. Many might now be thinking the best destination for a chunk of their portfolio is a biscuit tin buried...
Mark Mazzarella
Dexus Real Estate Securities
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A look back on the 1929 crash

In my last blog, I provided an overview of Vega Capital’s model for identifying and pre-empting recessions in the United States. Last Thursday (at WeWorks Martin...
Scott Shuttleworth
Scott Shuttleworth
Vega Capital
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Cooper reviews the Cooper Review

10 years ago, Jeremy Cooper, now Chairman of Retirement Income at Challenger, chaired the Federal Government’s Super System Review, commonly known as the Cooper...
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The Rules of Investing
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The opportunity that's consistently overlooked

Hans Rosling was a Swedish public health researcher who died of pancreatic cancer in 2017. He launched a website called www.gapminder.org and posthumously published a...
Paul Wylie
Paul Wylie
Mason Stevens
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5 pieces of investment advice from the late Jack Bogle

The investment industry lost one its pioneers earlier this month with the passing of Jack Bogle. He is widely seen as having changed how ordinary people invest their...
Marcus Tuck
Marcus Tuck
Mason Stevens
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Screening for winning Fund Managers, while removing the duds

It has been an incredibly ugly period for funds management in recent months, albeit a very informative one for their investors. Unfortunately, the market environment...
Jerome Lander
WealthLander
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Klarman: A buying opportunity (but not for the faint of heart)

Seth Klarman, CEO and Portfolio Manager of the US-based hedge fund, Baupost Group, has been touted widely as “the next Warren Buffett”. The nickname The Oracle of...
Patrick Poke
Livewire Markets
Education

12 books for serious investors

I explicitly began my investing education by reading what is considered the bible to value investors: Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham. To be honest, I couldn't...
Emanuel Datt
Datt Capital
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The New Abnormal for Portfolio Management

The market environment has changed. Yet most advisers’ portfolios have not. They may want to adapt fast if they want their clients better suited to the new market...
Jerome Lander
WealthLander
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12 outstanding investment books

Over the years I've read a lot of books on investing, many of which are on, or by, the great investors. I'm constantly revisiting these books as they provide a...
John Garrett
MA Financial Group
Education

10 key messages for investors

Financial markets can be subject to periods of event-related volatility during which investor confidence can be significantly undermined. Here, we provide 10 key...
Fidelity International
Fidelity International
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Dissecting the fear-to-fact ratio: A case of irrational markets?

It was only mid-November when the US and Australian 10 year government bond yields nudged 3.24% and 2.76%, respectively, and local markets were pricing in no chance of...
Frank Uhlenbruch
Frank Uhlenbruch
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7 questions with Roger Montgomery

For two years now, Roger Montgomery has been warning investors of a pending housing crash. While these claims were initially met with scepticism, as the data has...
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