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John Murray, Managing Director of Perennial Value Management, says that one of the most common complaints he hears from investors is that term deposits aren’t...

Despite the stronger than expected ABS housing data released yesterday, it increasingly looks like residential property prices peaked in late 2017. The bull market in...

A rise in the Oil price overnight helped to support that sector today with Santos and Oil Search both up more than 1% while Woodside edged +0.35% higher. BHP opened...

This time last year we wrote on Livewire that inflation and volatility charts were the ones we were watching most closely. Following the recent surge in both measures,...

Every three months I knock on my colleagues’ doors and ask them what they’re thinking about the markets. It’s interesting to hear what’s keeping them up at night. Even...

Next Thursday Livewire will be making available videos of our inaugural Master Series. This unique investor event brings together four of Australia’s most talented...

Every now and then when people ask me about building a portfolio of Life Science companies, I tell them that having a regenerative medicine stock in the portfolio is...

The market sold off early on the back of the Tech led sell off in the States overnight that saw American indices down around ~1.5% thanks to reports of a data leak...

In Australia, the outlook remains mixed, labour market and confidence metrics have remained solid early in the year and this is expected to continue. Yet other...

This week the "Chart of the Week" shows the equity risk premium across a couple of key developed economy stockmarkets. The equity risk premium provides a unique...

When one door closes, another one opens. And so it is with APRA’s regulatory changes. While it's a headwind for banks, lending to small players is now an opportunity...

On Friday, Wesfarmers announced an intention to demerge their Coles Food, Liquor and Convenience business. While this transaction has some attractive merits we also...

Selecting investments solely on return falls squarely into the “buyer beware” bucket. However, when comparing the plethora of fund investment opportunities in the...

On the 9th March 1987 U2 released the Joshua Tree, the fastest selling British Album of all time that went on to sell over 25 million copies. Joshua Tree is still...