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The market was down early, but news that China’s central bank boosted its daily liquidity injection, plus confirmation that Evergrande had reached an agreement with...

One of the questions investors ask us most often is “When does a crowded trade become too risky?” Biologists will tell us that the movement pattern of herds is...

The Juukan Gorge disaster has become the ultimate lesson for the future of ESG investing. The disastrous failures to protect historically significant sites that last...

We are now in Spring – and appropriately enough for a traditional time of growth and harvest, let’s discuss food. Throughout history, the development of our society...

While the world is awash with a menagerie of successful companies - those with brilliant management teams, societal shifting products and services, and captivatingly...

As part of the Livewire income series, we’ve decided to put together our own three-part focus on income, its value right now, the challenges and trade-offs when...

The headquarters of Xcel Energy (NASDAQ: XEL), an electricity and natural gas company that operates across eight mid-western US states, lies just a few kilometres away...

TS Eliot was wrong. September, not April, is the cruellest month for investors. The S&P 500 has risen in this month just 45pc of the time since the Second World War....

Tech stocks, consumer ‘platforms’, and healthcare (among others) have all seen outstanding returns in recent years, with many of them now ‘priced to perfection’. That...

While the market was sharply lower overnight there was no sign of panic in the selling, volatility stayed low, credit spreads hardly moved and equities saw a large...

In an environment where interest rates remain at record-lows and term deposits can no longer deliver the yield they once did for income-hungry investors, there are...

The concept of diversified portfolios was first popularised by Harry Markowitz’s 1952 “Modern Portfolio Theory”, which outlined the basic tenets of how risk-adjusted...

Professional investors often claim to share little with a retail investor. Professional investors or fund managers claim to be systematic, calm and measured in their...

As the pandemic lockdowns grind on, investing in the car parking sector looks a decidedly dead-end option given the expanses of vacant lots across the affected...

So far, the equity market has only fallen a few percentage points. A lot of ink spilled for a relatively modest market reaction. (Examples: here, here and here to list...

Looking at the reporting season scorecard, there was a vast improvement compared to last year. 15 REITs provided either EPS or DPS guidance. Those withholding guidance...

It's fair to say there is something truly exhilarating about investing in a winning small-cap. And over the past 12 months, the ASX has produced a considerable few. ...

The reopening play has recently resurfaced as a popular theme amongst investors, with fund managers and punters alike looking through what we all hope to be the last...

In a huge development yesterday, NSW's brilliant Treasurer Dominic Perrottet shocked financial markets with the news that he will use proceeds from the $11.1 billion...

In a late-February decision endorsed unanimously by the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) executive board, the IOC Future Host Summer Commission designated...