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Quickfire Q&A with the fundie up +42.9% in 2018

The last four months of 2018 were brutal for investors everywhere. October was particularly painful, with most managers off by -5 to -10%. So it caught my eye when I...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
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The biggest lesson from 35 years of investing

Working on a trading desk in the City of London on Black Monday 1987, David Polak from Capital Group felt the world really was falling apart. But nearly 31 years...
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Quickfire Q&A with Ben McGarry

As volatility has picked up in recent months, many investors who thought they were protected in a down-market have quickly discovered otherwise. Asset consultants have...
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Patrick Poke
Livewire Markets
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Forager’s 2018 Book Recommendations

Every year I intend to publish our annual book recommendations sufficiently early for those seeking gift ideas. But every year, the list gets cobbled together in a mad...
Gareth Brown
Forager
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Chris Stott: One last call

At age 37 Chris Stott has called time on his investment career at Wilson Asset Management. Given the current state of markets I took the opportunity to have one final...
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James Marlay
Livewire Markets
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Druckenmiller: Why I’ve gone back to equities

Stanley Druckenmiller is one of the most accomplished macro traders the world has ever seen. He worked closely with the legendary trader George Soros at the Quantum...
Patrick Poke
Livewire Markets
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Successful small cap investing: it pays to invert

The listed Australian small companies’ market is known for its significant capital growth, wealth creation and most importantly the fostering of innovative emerging...
Liam Donohue
Lennox Capital
Education

George Constanza and the art of doing the opposite

I know I’m not alone in saying that watching old episodes of Seinfeld is one of my favourite ways to unwind – I’ve even done the Kramer Reality Bus Tour in New York!...
Rudi Minbatiwala
Rudi Minbatiwala
First Sentier Investors
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Strategies for a challenging market

The market has fallen through November lows to touch levels not seen since 2016. Tune in to this thematic discussion in which Matthew Kidman asks Tobias Yao at Wilson...
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Livewire Markets
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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
Education

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...
PTM
Douglas Isles
Douglas Isles
Platinum
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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
Education

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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FMG
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Patrick Poke
Livewire Markets
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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...
PTM
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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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