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Don’t listen to what Central Banks say, watch what they do!

The local market started slightly positive before market-level global buying popped it up on another low turnover day. We are on the sixth consecutive week without a...
Mathan Somasundaram
Deep Data Analytics
Equities

We're long (and wrong) Whitehaven Coal

I hate losing money, as most do, however being prepared to put capital on the line, to take a risk, and at times come out on the wrong side is the reality of...
James Gerrish
Market Partners
Equities

3 reasons why Airtasker is set to thrive

Airtasker is an Australian online marketplace that connects people who need help with a task to people who can get the task done. The company listed on the ASX during...
ART
Eleanor Swanson
Firetrail Investments
Equities

You beauty! The health and wellness stocks that promise prosperity and vitality

It seems the only advertisers these days are Harvey Norman, sports betting shops and Chemist Warehouse and Priceline with their pages of pills and unguents. Indeed,...
BKL
BWX
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Tim Boreham
Tim Boreham
Independent Investment Research
Equities

We are not in Kansas anymore

The local market delivered another choppy negative day on low turnover. We are on the sixth consecutive week without a double-digit billion-dollar turnover day. The...
Mathan Somasundaram
Deep Data Analytics
Equities

Reimagining medicine: Novartis’ breakthrough therapies

With a market cap of more than $200 billion, Novartis is one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world and a leader in developing trusted innovative...
Magellan Investment Partners
Magellan Investment Partners
Rapid Fire

Is this the biggest growth opportunity in the world today?

For many investors, esports and gaming conjure up images of teenagers playing computer games in their basement against their friends. But this tired caricature has...
Patrick Poke
Livewire Markets
Equities

Market sentiment likely to change when the tsunami of equity inflows run out

The local market delivered a choppy negative day on very low turnover. We have started the sixth consecutive week without a double-digit billion-dollar turnover day....
Mathan Somasundaram
Deep Data Analytics
Equities

Finding the pawns that will become Queens

At the start of any chess game, any pawn has the potential to become a Queen. The hard part for investors is to identify those small companies that will grow to be...
Russel Chesler
VanEck
Buy Hold Sell

Everything you need to know about shorting

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "shorting"? For me, it's every finance fanatic's favourite film The Big Short. Or, if you twisted my arm, the...
FMG
RIO
Buy Hold Sell
Livewire Markets
Expert Insights

Shane Oliver: How to be a better investor

In the mid-1990s, Shane Oliver was recently married and in the market for a new house. He was driving around Sydney's northern beaches in the middle of winter...
Mia Kwok
Mia Kwok
Livewire Markets
Equities

Markets want socialism dressed as capitalism but stagflation is the side effect

Local market delivered a choppy flat day on low turnover. We have finished the fifth consecutive week without a double digit $b turnover day. Market started slight...
Mathan Somasundaram
Deep Data Analytics
Equities

Off the Charts! AMP spinoff, the fall and rise of Lithium, and staff steal €100 million using shopping bags

G'day and welcome back to the latest instalment of Off the Charts! where we bring you the biggest headlines of the week on all things investing, and the odd item we...
AMP
APT
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Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
Equities

The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind

The title of this article is a famous quote from Humphrey Bogart which couldn’t be more apt right now. Everyone has a favourite reopening trade. With some travel names...
GNC
+2
Anthony Kavanagh
Chester Asset Management
Equities

Why we think NSR is an exceptional REIT

The real estate investment trust sector is not a traditional hunting ground for the Montgomery Small Companies Fund. REITs tend to be passive asset owners or rent...
Gary Rollo
Montgomery
Equities

Digitisation & the retail investor

Retail investor participation in equity markets is undergoing rapid change, a trend that has accelerated throughout COVID-19. Retail investors have always been a...
Robert Miller
NAOS
Collections

Four ways to find cheap stocks

As governments around the world continue to pump the bellows, with record stimulus payments a near-universal feature of economies everywhere, the rotation from Growth...
Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Equities

Pilbara Minerals poised for cashflow surge on spodumene boom

Plus, our whisper last week on Rumble proved well-founded but don’t forget Zenith, Beament begins his goodbyes at Northern Star, Sovereign prepares for maiden rutile...
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Barry FitzGerald
Independent Journalist
Equities

Five crucial facts the mainstream has ignored

If you’ve been following the news – which, two of my recent posts concluded, is a mistake! – for the past six months or more, you’ll be forgiven for thinking that the...
Chris Leithner
Leithner & Company Ltd
Buy Hold Sell

Buy Hold Sell: 4 outperformers and the ASX's most shorted stock

The last 12 months in markets have sure been wild. On average, the top five gainers across the ASX 200 returned a whopping 371.5%. And no to you cynics out there, that...
APT
+2
Buy Hold Sell
Livewire Markets
Equities

A "must have" company set to thrive

Competition under the capitalist system, in theory, works something like this: An entrepreneur has a bright idea. That leads to a business making, or promising to...
Magellan Investment Partners
Magellan Investment Partners
Equities

Canada may be the wild west's canary in the reflation mine

The local market turned recent weakness to deliver a positive day on “buy the dip” sentiment flowing from the US market. We are in the fifth consecutive week without a...
Mathan Somasundaram
Deep Data Analytics
Equities

Four at-home "winners" that aren't reopening "losers"

Turbo-charged US economic growth underpinned by record levels of cash stimulus bodes well for global stock investors over the shorter term at least, says Ellerston...
Glenn Freeman
Livewire Markets
Equities

More upgrades, more potential for Aussie shares

Back in early 2011, something odd was happening in the Australian share market. Equity strategists at local investment banks and stockbrokers were predicting strong...
BAP
BHP
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Rudi Filapek-Vandyck
FNArena
Equities

Five trends global equity investors may be underestimating

International investors appear to be underestimating five global trends that have the potential to shape the direction of markets. These areas of focus—China, Japan,...
T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price
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