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Crown vs Star: Which is the best bet?

They say the house always wins, but with both Crown and Star Entertainment to choose from, which house is the better one to bet on? Crown’s flagship casino in...
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Wilson and Aitken dissect Telstra

There was a time when Telstra was a staple of almost every Australian investor’s portfolio. Stable earnings and a big fully-franked yield meant that it never had...
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The Looming Oil Shortage

Four long and mostly painful years. That’s how we feel when reflecting on for Forager’s investments in the oil slick. There have been a couple of successes, one...
Steve Johnson
Forager
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Investing in the future: Trends in technology

Attendees and digital pass subscribers were treated to a feast of information and analysis at Livewire Live this year, now it’s your turn. See three of Australia’s...
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Taking advantage of changing consumer preferences

Food is one of the few products that consumers will happily pay up for. Nick Griffin, Chief Investment Officer at Munro Partners, says the best way to play this is via...
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Are Caravans cool again?

It’s no secret that consumers around the world are getting more physically active. In the past, companies like Nike, Under Armour, and Lululemon have been the major...
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A good week to be thinking about risk

This is a good week to be thinking about risk. A string of natural disasters in the Americas and a potential man-made catastrophe in Asia coincide with the...
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Ideas for an electrified future

Technological, environmental, and political changes could result in the commodities sector changing significantly in the coming decades. Following our recent...
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Marks: 'I was wrong about Bitcoin'

Howard Marks expressed concerns over a range of different assets and indicators in his last memo, which caused quite a media uproar. So he’s expanded and clarified...
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
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Uncertainty generates the biggest opportunities

It’s easy to forget, but it was just 18-months ago that markets were fearful of an explosion in bad debts on the back of China’s apartment over-build. Much of the fear...
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A big lesson for Aussie investors

Reporting season is a circus. For most businesses, more than half of their net present value will come from cashflows more than 10 years into the future. Why do we...
Steve Johnson
Forager
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North Korea: The blackest of swans

When asked which black swan was most likely to unsettle markets, particularly given how low volatility is, Ben Griffiths highlighted North Korea as being the one to...
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The tech trend that changes everything

At Livewire Live 2017, Daniel Petre of Airtree Ventures highlighted Artifical Intelligence and machine learning as THE big trend to watch: “It will dramatically change...
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For technology exposure, think Asia

The MSCI Asia ex-Japan index is the most technology heavy MSCI index in the world. Technology accounts for 31% of the Asia index versus 23% for MSCI US and a mere 1%...
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Magic and Mistakes in Mining Services

My father used to take me to the horse races as a child. It became something of a father-son thing over the years – usually expensive but always entertaining. It never...
Steve Johnson
Forager
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Generating investing ideas in a tough market

Investors have been questioning how to approach the market, given lofty valuations and elevated risk. With this backdrop, Livewire posed some questions on this issue...
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Investing with India’s powerful tailwinds

Mary Manning, Portfolio Manager at Ellerston Asian Investments (ASX:EAI), is drawn to the growth opportunities available in India. She explains that many of the...
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The climate change debate is one of risk management, not politics or ideology

We would like to offer up our perspective on the climate change debate. We do not think this is a political or ideological debate as is presented in the media and by...
Tim Hannon
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Conrad Capital Group
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How to play the computer game thematic

When we asked Nick Griffin at Munro Partners where ‘The Next Facebook’ could come from, he pointed at video game stocks and cited Activision Blizzard as an...
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Investor Event: Three resources companies with big plans for 2017

With winter approaching, keep the heat in your investment portfolio with three exciting resource companies. Livewire readers are invited to attend a free investor...
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3 investing themes that could affect you

In this increasingly global society, major shifts overseas almost always end up impacting local investors and consumers. Whether it’s local media companies being...
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A bear market outside of banks and resources

While we have a few months yet for the banks’ results, the resource sector has produced some of the more surprising numbers so far this reporting season. Rio Tinto’s...
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Hyperion: There’s a real opportunity at the moment

Tim Samway, Managing Director at Hyperion Asset Management, says that a focus on macro themes has created a real opportunity in a number of high-quality companies....
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