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Australia's ETF boom - what to expect in 2025

State Street forecasts Australia’s ETF market to grow to $300 billion in funds under management in 2025.
Anna Dadic
Livewire Markets
Funds

3 brilliant women in finance share their 5 must-watch stocks

Future Generation CEO Caroline Gurney explains how the best of Australia’s women in funds management are investing for the future.
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Sara Allen
Livewire Markets
Funds

Income focused strategies in vogue for LIC and LIT launches

Below we take a look at the key news items and announcements in the new year, which include more capital raisings from fixed income LITs, new investments from BTI, LIC...
Claire Aitchison
Independent Investment Research
Funds

ETFs are reshaping SMSF portfolios – advisers weigh in

Advisers weigh in on new data showing advised SMSFs now allocate a third of their portfolios to ETFs - plus a look at their top 10 holdings.
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Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Funds
Sponsored

Activate your portfolio with Schroders Active ETFs

As early movers in Australia’s Active ETF space since 2016, Schroders’ expanded range includes two new funds: the Schroder Global Equity Alpha Fund (ASX: ALPH) and the...
Schroders Australia
Schroders
Funds

7 vanilla and ‘hot sauce’ ETFs Bloomberg is watching

One of the world’s most respected ETF analysts highlights 2025's key funds, and we look at how investors can play these themes in Australia.
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Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Fund in Focus
Sponsored

The end of the Magnificent Seven's reign may be a boon for this investing strategy

Find out how the Impax Asset Management team deliver returns despite the noise (and risks of) being carried away by the green narrative.
Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
Fund in Focus
Sponsored

Why MA Financial is making its $3.7 billion portfolio available as an ASX-listed LIT

Find out how the MA Financial team narrow down a $15 billion opportunity set to the few projects they'll take on.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Funds

10 Australian equity funds that delivered more than 27% in 2024

In this wire, we crunch the data on the country's top-performing Aussie equities funds and examine their 2025 positioning.
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Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Funds

The best-performing ETF of 2024 returned over 146%

While on average, the top 10 returned over 70%.
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Sara Allen
Livewire Markets
Funds

The 5 best performing fixed income funds of 2024 (and what they have in common)

The performance reviews are in and many of the top managers in the fixed income universe are holding onto their spots.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Funds

Which 5 global equity funds delivered 50%+ returns in 2024?

The best global equity funds surged over the past year, making it back-to-back stellar years for some global managers.
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Chris Conway
Livewire Markets
Outlook Series

Your 10 most-tipped ETFs for 2025

For the third year running, we asked you to nominate your top ETFs... and there are some interesting shifts from last year.
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Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Funds

Ignore the noise: These Australian property investments are alive with opportunity

In this wire, we explain why one of our flagship funds shifted to a full-time healthcare focus.
Matthew Strotton
Real Asset Management
Funds

Looking back on 2024 for listed managed investments

With the end of the year approaching, we take a look back at the performance of LICs and LITs over the year.
Claire Aitchison
Independent Investment Research
Funds

Are ETFs fueling the ASX bank rally or just enjoying the ride?

VanEck's Russel Chesler busts key myths about the influence of ETFs on asset prices.
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Vishal Teckchandani
Livewire Markets
Funds

This is a once in a cycle investing opportunity for LICs

Have we reached peak madness for LICs? I explore this in the Affluence Funds LIC Wrap Up for 2024.
Greg Lander
Affluence Funds Management
Funds

3 portfolio themes to consider for growth investors in 2025

Thematic ETFs have outperformed in 2024 - where will the growth come in the coming 12 months?
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Billy Leung
Global X ETFs
Outlook Series

Your most-tipped ETFs returned 25.08% on average in 2024

….but that’s nothing on the best performer which returned 47.07%.
Sara Allen
Livewire Markets
Funds

Four alternative credit strategies for this credit cycle

What has worked to date might not be the strategy that works moving through this credit cycle
Pieter De Weerdt
Antarctica Asset Management
Funds

Jun Bei Liu, Catherine Allfrey, Emma Fisher will all be part of Australia's newest fund

Future Generation Women launched today featuring the elite of Australia’s women in fund management. It’s going to change finance.
Sara Allen
Livewire Markets
Funds

L1 Capital's Catalyst Fund: Reflections on activism and the art of persuasion

L1 Capital's James Hawkins recently conducted a webinar discussing the Catalyst Fund. Here we summarise the highlights of the session.
Chris Conway
Livewire Markets
Fund in Focus
Sponsored

The 2 asset classes ripe for thriving in the new market regime

BlackRock's Tamara Haban-Beer Stats talks about the benefits of investing in infrastructure and REITs.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Funds

Third LIC/LIT coming to market for 2024

Below we take a look at the key news items and announcements during October, which included the commencement of trading of MRE and a new LIC coming to market. In the...
Claire Aitchison
Independent Investment Research
Funds

If 24 LICs ran the Melbourne Cup, which would be our favourites

The 8th running of the Affluence LIC Melbourne Cup!
Daryl Wilson
Affluence Funds Management
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