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While equity markets continue to tumble in the face of a rising Fed, fixed income is getting attention. Asset allocators, after being rocked by the historic sell-off...

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Markets are shattering records all over the world and in every asset class. Although the decline in US equities is not near the long-run average for bear markets...

I've said it before and I'll say it again - it's an incredibly tough time to be an investor right now. Anecdotally, several fund managers have recently told me their...

Investing in private equity can bag you very handsome returns - provided you know what you're getting into and can marshal the appropriate expertise to do it...

The US Dollar (USD) has had a year like no other, tanking the value of every currency paired with it. That's good news for US citizens travelling abroad but, as...

A colleague and I just returned from a busy trip visiting 16 public companies in the US, taking us everywhere from New York City to Winona, Minnesota (population:...

A snapback for the ASX today rallying 1.4% although late selling took some cream off the top with the index up ~2% at the peak. Bank of England (BoE) intervention in...

Not all investment alternatives (1) are created equal, just as some alternatives might not provide the portfolio diversification qualities the name suggests. It’s no...

The manoeuvring involving Red 5, Genesis, St Barbara, Dacian and Kin could deliver a significant prize – for some. Plus, Cygnus quadruples its land holding in Canada’s...

Investors could be forgiven for looking back on the pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 with fond memories. After the initial shock in February-March 2020, it was a...

Welcome to Charts and Caffeine - Livewire's pre-market open news and analysis wrap. We'll get you across the overnight session and share our best insights to get you...

Local equities initially defied weak overnight leads to trade high for the first hour. The rally turned sour before midday though with news hitting the wires that...

The good news is that there is evidence that the great Aussie housing crash is stabilising in the vanguard cities of Sydney and Melbourne. As the first chart below...

In March, QVG Capital presented a webinar which talked about, among other things, the proportion of unprofitable companies entering the ASX300. At the time we noted...

This month’s bogey was European inflation, which was up to 9.1% for the 12 months to August, so still increasing. Energy and food prices drove this rise, courtesy of...

Before the war in Ukraine, the phrase on infrastructure investors’ lips was ‘the energy transition’. Now, it is energy security and energy affordability, which...

Mike Tyson once said, before a big fight, ‘everyone has a plan until they get punched in the mouth’. On the battlefield, the same sentiment is conveyed by the adage...

The RBA’s latest interest rate rise - which takes the cash rate to 2.35%, the highest level since 2014 – further highlights the challenges facing the property...

The negative effects of inflation will persist for longer than many expect, but so will the commodity-linked uplift for companies in Industrials and other sectors,...