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In September we saw bond markets on the back foot a little as concerns around the US debt ceiling arose, and the US Federal Reserve began to taper its accommodative...

The economy is a key driver for a lot of things, but not for the healthcare sector. The key driver for the healthcare sector is Australia's growing and ageing...

Given the relatively minor drawdown in equity markets recently, there seems to be a surprisingly large number of dislocations appearing in global financial markets. ...

Think about some of Australia’s most prominent buildings, bridges, tunnels and railways. Now tell me how many of them have an ASX ticker. Not many, as Invest...

Exchange-traded funds are diversified, liquid, cheap and transparent, says VanEck Australia's deputy head of investments and capital markets, Jamie Hannah, making them...

At face value, identifying winners sounds like it should be at the core of all investment strategies. What is the growth outlook, does an industry have a good...

6% yield - that's the magic number many Livewire readers said they need to achieve their desired lifestyle. What stood out to me was that many were heavily reliant...

Australia’s natural resources, most notably in the north west, could see us at the forefront of global “green steel” production. Fortescue Metals (FMG), BHP and Rio...

Challenger Limited is the dominant fixed annuities provider in Australia. It entered the market in 1997 and today it has around an 80% market share. Before jumping...

COVID-19 has placed the healthcare sector front and centre in all our minds. The development of a vaccine in record time was truly remarkable, showing what can be...

It was another session that closed in the red for the ASX, the third straight decline, but again it was more about the influence of the sectors that fell. Given...

As with so many facets of human nature, it’s natural for investors to covet the next big thing wrapped in glittering paper. It’s why tech stocks have done so well in...

L1 Capital’s new Catalyst Fund is unique in several ways, not least that the concentrated portfolio holds just 10 stocks. To find out the three key "gates" each stock...

Like millions of other people around the world, the combination of Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit and a long time locked inside my home rekindled my interest in chess....

There are few absolutes for investors. A company can possess bucketloads of customer goodwill, dominate in a high-entry barrier industry, have top-notch management and...

The US inflation print, out overnight, continues to have something for everyone. Here’s our favourite graph, produced by the Council of Economic Advisors (CEA), which...

Pentanet (ASX:5GG) is a Perth-based micro-cap in the telco and cloud gaming space. Pentanet is passionate about high-speed internet and delivers the largest fixed...

Much has been written on the failure of the Reserve Bank to achieve its inflation target in recent years. Bill Evans and The Australian Financial Review have argued...

Despite the pain of ongoing lockdowns, and nearly a million jobs disappearing, at the end of 2020 Australia's household wealth was surging. According to the Australian...

In April this year, Livewire had the good fortune to receive a great idea from a regular reader, Andrew. We were missing a trick, he wrote: Why not connect with our...