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US inflation data will be an important release tonight and that will have a big bearing on where markets go from here. That uncertainty was obvious in the local...

The vast majority of the investment community is fascinated with Founder-led businesses and rightly so.

It’s “an article of faith among Wall Street research departments,” wrote David Dreman in Contrarian Investment Strategy (1979): “nothing is as important in the...

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...

Well thank goodness for that. We’ve made it past the end of June, and in doing so completed a half year that no investor is likely to want repeated. There have been...

We are three weeks away from the all-important August earnings season, when Australia's listed companies will reveal the good, bad and ugly of their full-year...

What is the first thing you think of when you hear the phrase "central bank"? Philip Lowe? Jerome Powell? Inflation? Interest rates?  When a slew of headlines drop,...

Inflation is increasing rapidly around the world, with Australian consumer price inflation hitting its highest level in more than 20 years at 5.1%. In response,...

If you’re looking for investment ideas – and that’s why you’re reading this, after all – getting inside the heads of Australia’s corporate leaders is a huge advantage....

This year has seen a recovery in the performance of Value managers with the narrative now moving from “Is Value investing dead?” to “Is it time to buy Growth...

A mixed bag today with defensives holding up while anything growth-related fell away – low volume again for the ASX keying off a similar theme in the US (slowest...

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...

The transportation sector accounts for approximately 16% of all global emissions, of which road transport is responsible for about three quarters(1). It’s clear that...

When it comes to viewing one's own work with a dispassionate eye, Lazard Asset Management portfolio manager Matthew Landy gets straight to the point.The global...

The metaverse has become one of the hottest investment topics. Yet the theme has left many investors bemused. Some wonder what it is. While others wonder where the...

Shares have had an awful start to the year. Portfolios are bleeding and savers are scared. Forget about making money, the problem is holding on to it. For years US...

Australian property market prices are falling, and rents are rising rapidly. Interest rates are rising even faster. In terms of mortgage payments, a 30%+ increase in...

Under Classical Economic theory, interest rates were assumed to balance out savings and investment, with the demand for investment coming from businesses, which would...

How central banks, markets and investors got interest rates (and inflation) so wrong – and what that means for investors. The ‘Uber Test’ (once the ‘Taxi Test’) is a...

There was no reprieve in financial markets in the closing months of the financial year, in fact the losses sustained in bonds and equities in the June quarter were...