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Stocktoberfest: A healthcare stock with multiple tailwinds

For Livewire's Stocktoberfest, we nominate healthcare stock, Philips. Being parsimonious Scots, we appreciate ‘value for money’ and like it when demand growth for our...
Greig Bryson
Yarra Capital Management
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How great ideas become great investments

Great investment ideas can come from anywhere, including your everyday observations as a consumer. Will Low, Head of Global equities at Nikko Asset Management recounts...
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5 ASX CEOs Who Tick all the Boxes

A year ago we wrote an article about ‘5 CEOs Who Tick All the Boxes’ based on the ASX listed CEOs who we thought showed similarities to Tom Murphy. For those...
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Robert Miller
NAOS
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'Stocktoberfest': One blue chip ready for insatiable demand

Livewire is rolling out a debut series, ‘Stocktoberfest, to showcase new stock ideas (and beer suggestions). We put the spotlight on a blue chip that is well prepared...
Adam Alexander
Schroders
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Buy Hold Sell: 5 out of favour stocks

We all know the theory, buy low and sell high. But how do you really feel about buying a stock when it’s bombed out and on its knees? In this episode of Buy Hold Sell...
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What could derail equity markets?

With the economy chugging along nicely, and equity markets grinding higher, it’s been pretty smooth sailing for investors in recent years. But there’s one important...
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An Axing for Axsesstoday

Last month Axsesstoday (AXL) was on its way to becoming a market darling. Today it is suspended from trading. The CEO is gone. The stock was already down by a third...
Alex Shevelev
Forager
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Could trade tensions derail US corporate profits?

Since the beginning of the year, the Trump administration has announced a series of increasingly aggressive trade policies. While much remains uncertain about the...
Ronald Temple
Lazard Asset Management
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On the ground views from Asia: Talking Tech

Asia is the most technology-heavy region in the world. Technology companies currently make up ~32% of the MSCI Asia ex-Japan Index compared to only 26% of the S&P500...
Fredy Hoh
Fredy Hoh
Ellerston Capital
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Buy Hold Sell: 5 superior growth stocks

Peter Lynch once said, “Time is on your side when you own shares of superior companies.” The challenge of course is to own those superior companies at a reasonable...
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Out of favour, lots of flavour

Last year we called out the compelling value in Sirtex, which had been through a very rough patch. Livewire asked us to review our thesis on the stock, which has more...
Matthew Booker
Spheria
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One stock that passes the Firetrail filter

James Miller from Firetrail Investments argues there are just two or three things that really matter when it comes to assessing any stock on the ASX. “A company like...
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Taking emotion out of the franking credits debate

The ALP’s proposal to ditch franking credit cash rebates evoked an emotional response from self-funded retirees, sparking substantial analysis and debate on the issue....
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Three Aussie stocks that pass the Buffett process

The process employed by Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger is striking not only for the long-term returns that have been generated, but also for its simplicity. In a...
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How is corporate Australia holding up?

With so much discussion about the maturity of the current bull market, it would be easy to assume that corporate balance sheets have fallen into the same state of...
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Buy Hold Sell: Where is the value?

Today NAB is offering a 10% fully franked yield, AMP Capital is trading at all-time lows and Janus Henderson is on PE multiple of just 6x. These are large and...
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Banks: The ultimate market chameleon

Australia has had a multi-decade love affair with credit, where we've gone from households being quite under-leveraged because we had financial regulation and credit...
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Alva Devoy
Alva Devoy
Fidelity International
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Three reasons shorting can benefit your investment returns

Most investors place their bets on share prices rising. There is a lot less focus placed on shorting, the betting that share prices will decline. Shorting is done by...
James Miller
Firetrail Investments
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US retailer, Target experiencing strong earnings tailwinds

Target is experiencing strong earnings tailwinds that remain underappreciated by the market. The US consumer remains a bastion of strength. Unemployment is touching...
Jeff Thomson
Alphinity Investment Management
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Abundant opportunities on the ASX

A popular narrative, for many investors, has been that good ideas are becoming harder to find as the current bull market grinds higher. Patrick Hodgens, Portfolio...
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Taking advantage of market volatility

Volatility is a fact of investing in financial markets. But rather than working against it, Bill Pridham, Co-Portfolio Manager at Ellerston Global Investments, says...
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Buy Hold Sell: 5 high-quality micro caps

There are about 2000 companies that fall into the micro-cap universe, and it’s the nursery for those companies that will go on to become future leaders on the ASX. The...
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Is the downside priced in for Telstra?

The list of problems facing Telstra is well known: falling revenues as the NBN rolls out, and declining market share in mobile. As the payments from the NBN begin to...
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3 treasures hidden in the trash

As the old saying goes; “one man’s trash is another man’s treasure”. And nowhere is this truer than the sometimes-scary world of deep value and contrarian investing....
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Quality tech stocks and how to pick'em

Tech - it’s a sector that local investors just love to hate, but if you didn’t own a handful of these high PE names of late you missed out on some stellar price...
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IFM
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