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As the world moves away from fossil fuels, hydrogen is receiving a lot of attention from investors and governments. Sometimes called the Swiss army knife of...

The recent good news for income investors in Australia has extended beyond our shores as global equities too begin splashing cash in a post-COVID resurgence. Plato’s...

SMSFs, mum and dad investors, and retirees: If you're sick of low interest rates, gather around.  "Your term deposits - the rate of return on those investments - has...

A surge of confidence is driving the Sydney and Melbourne markets following a volatile 18 months as office tower deals in NSW and Victoria hit $4.5 billion in the...

The Paradice Equity Alpha Plus Fund has been awarded Lonsec’s ‘Recommended’ rating adding to the Zenith ‘Recommended’ rating within a year of the Fund’s inception. The...

As with the miners, agricultural enterprises are largely cyclical. While steady earnings can never be guaranteed, performance is more assured if the producer can rise...

The Reserve Bank of Australia yesterday left the official interest rate of 0.1% unchanged but abandoned the Australian Commonwealth Government Bond yield curve target...

Lucas White and I wrote about the importance of a climate change strategy and the benefits it would provide in 2018. We expect these to include diversification,...

Off-market buybacks are a tax-effective mechanism for returning franking credits to shareholders who most value them. Yesterday, Westpac's delivered one the size of...

Resources have been on a tear this year, with some stocks 5-bagging or more in 12 months. In this thematic episode of Buy Hold Sell, Tim Serjeant and David...

Here at Livewire Markets, we write about investing all day long. And because we’re so used to thinking and writing about this stuff, we sometimes lose sight of what it...

While the short odds favourite failed to get up in the cup today, the decision by the RBA at 2.30 pm this afternoon to scrap yield targets and remove guidance for 2024...

The Australian stock market has developed a hunger for any next thing — it doesn’t even need to be a ‘next big thing’, just any next thing to fulfil a short-term...

Australia’s two supermarket giants, Coles and Woolworths, have just reported their September quarter sales figures. While it’s hard to make comparisons with the same...

We’ve seen numerous takeover offers for ASX-listed companies recently,  but inevitably they leave investors unsure whether to buy more, to hold or even sell. In this...

In this wire, Claire Atchison looks at whether Australian large-cap listed investment companies offer true diversification or whether investors are doubling down on...

Thematic investment is very popular. The idea of investing in "structural change" and the durable trends and investment themes of our time has struck a chord. Like any...

Last week was exciting for Tesla — $200 billion in additional value was created from $4 billion of incremental revenue in only five trading days.In summary, here's...

It's a challenging time for growth investors. Plenty of fund managers have posted negative returns, but Michael Frazis remains optimistic. In this wire he, spells out...

The market got off to a very indecisive start today, giving up early gains to trade just marginally higher by 10.30 am before buyers stepped up to the plate and...