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Why responsible investing can drive long-term returns

In our March 2018 Observations piece, Can an eye to ESG enhance long-term portfolio performance?, we highlighted the importance of responsible investing...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
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Digging deep for dividends

The 2018-2019 financial year has seen a dividend windfall for investors from Australian resource companies, an industry that isn’t historically associated with high...
AWC
BHP
FMG
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Peter Gardner
Plato Investment Management
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Cows with guns

They say you are what you eat, if that is the case then "you" are changing or if it's not you then it's your kids. The power of social media and influencers is...
Rod Skellet
Rod Skellet
Mason Stevens
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Three reasons to add corporate loans to your income strategy

Mandatory retirement savings in Australia are worth $2.7 trillion and growing. Equity markets are arguably looking fully priced, particularly as the rhetoric of a...
Andrew Lockhart
Metrics Credit Partners
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Australia: On the front foot for battery storage

Imagine how life in 21st century Australia would be without your personal electronic device such as the smartphone or a laptop computer. Made possible no doubt by the...
GNX
RFX
Rod Skellet
Rod Skellet
Mason Stevens
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A rolling bubble gathers no moss

Over the last 400 years, there has been no shortage of bubbles in various markets, ranging from Tulips in Amsterdam (1600s) to US dot.com stocks (2000). Thankfully,...
APT
Tony Sutton
Sintra Capital
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How to get lower costs and higher returns

The property sector is one of Australia’s largest carbon emitters, contributing more than 20% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, the buildings we live...
DXS
MGR
SGP
Matthew Coleman
Matthew Coleman
Dexus
Rapid Fire

The biggest themes in global natural resources today

The global natural resources sector, including mining and energy as well as agriculture, is about four times bigger than the entire Australian equity market. Sifting...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
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A look into the world's innovation lab

In the late twentieth century the emerging economies operated much as they had in the early twentieth century. The largest sector in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index,...
Robert Horton
Robert Horton
Lazard Asset Management
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AI: How the enlightenment ends

In the Wisconsin city of La Crosse in 2013, Eric Loomis, then in his early 30s, pleaded guilty to eluding police in a stolen car (while denying any role in a drive-by...
Magellan Investment Partners
Magellan
Investment Theme

What the 5G revolution means for the telco sector

5G is the next generation of mobile communications technology and has the potential to be a game changer – but what is it and how does it work? In this podcast, we...
TLS
Nicolas Burgess
Nicolas Burgess
EL&C Baillieu
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Part 2: A primer on the broader effects of vehicle electrification – who pays the electricity piper?

In the first part of this two part series, we looked at how Electric Vehicle battery prices can't be expected to fall forever. In part two, we look at the broader...
PM Capital
PM Capital
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5 key themes for Global Markets

Investor risk-on behaviour that was clearly on display in the first quarter 2019 continued in April. Risk assets performed strongly across the board, particularly in...
Jay Kumar
Foresight Analytics
Investment Theme

A top stock idea for 5G technology exposure

5G is basically a new era in telecommunications, which is focused on speed, and software. It's a way of unlocking the spectrum to enable greater speeds, greater...
Kieran Moore
Munro Partners
Investment Theme

Artificial intelligence, the investment team that never sleeps

Last year, 81% of all 500 of the Fortune 500 CEOs interviewed, agreed that artificial intelligence (AI) is “extremely important” or “very important” to the future of...
Jason Winderbaum
Sanlam
Investment Theme

The evolution of shopping centres into ‘living centres’…

Leading global tutoring company Kip McGrath Education Centres Limited has recently opened a 'tutoring hub' in a Westfield centre for the first time. In this wire, we...
BWF
SCG
Steve McCarthy
DMX Asset Management
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An update on the 10 events that could surprise markets in 2019 (plus a new one)

It has been two months since we published our list of 10 potential surprises for 2019, which on the balance of probabilities, are unlikely to happen but shouldn’t be...
Tony Sutton
Sintra Capital
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A blast from the past - SaaS valuations based on revenue

Technology continues to be one of the strongest market sectors, but we are clearly at a point where software is a major market theme of its own, and, within that, the...
ALU
PM Capital
PM Capital
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3 value opportunities in domestic cyclicals

It looks clear that 2019 will be a challenging year for the consumer. The daily headlines on falling house prices, declining car sales, tightening credit, election...
OML
QAN
WES
Airlie Funds Management
Airlie Funds Management
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The Inspirational Story of SMI

I recently wrote about Bailador portfolio company Rezdy, and how the business started as an idea Simon Lenoir had while working in a dive shop in New Caledonia. The...
David Kirk
David Kirk
Bailador Technology Investments
Investment Theme

Why we sometimes like the worst performing funds

If I told you that your best chance of finding an investment fund that is going to outperform in the future would be to screen for the worst performing funds in the...
Daryl Wilson
Affluence Funds Management
Expert Insights

Why we don't own retail

Retail has seen more tech casualties than most sectors, however some investors are now seeing value emerging in ‘oversold’ names. However, Eileen Riley, Co-Portfolio...
Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
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Budget 2019: 100 billion dollars on infrastructure

The Federal Budget announced an eye catching national $100 billion infrastructure investment program over the next 10 years. All infrastructure spending is good...
4D Infrastructure
4D Infrastructure
A Bennelong boutique
Investment Theme

Who is going to win the Indian Election? On the ground in Uttar Pradesh

The Indian General Election is coming up on May 23, 2019. Our base case is that Modi is returned as Prime Minister and the BJP gains a majority of seats, or at least...
Mary Manning
Alphinity Investment Management
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The force behind the fast-food juggernauts

In the 1930s, Harland Sanders started cooking for travellers at his service station and motel in Kentucky. In 2017, the company that the honorary Colonel founded sent...
Magellan Investment Partners
Magellan
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