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One of the benefits often touted from adding Chinese exposures to global bond portfolios are the diversification benefits arising from the lower global bond...

Food and investing. Strange bedfellows in a Livewire piece. Or maybe not. COVID lockdowns have catapulted both. According to Nielsen research, Australians are spending...

As investors, we’re bombarded with the importance of fundamentals and warned constantly about the dangers of obsessing over the rear-view mirror. “Past performance is...

Value investing and contrarian investing are intrinsically related. Value investing seeks to identify good quality companies that are trading cheaply. To achieve that...

With the value of US equity markets more than doubling over the past decade, it is surprising to see that the number of companies on US exchanges is rapidly...

The decline in dividends and other traditional sources of investment income has made it hard for investors to find the income they need without taking on too much...

Most teenagers spend their waking hours daydreaming about the opposite sex, trying their first alcoholic beverage (in my case, Passion Pop), and engaging in other...

Credit Suisse is bullish on equities over the medium term, despite the "froth" that is clearly disseminating across the market and investor's all-enveloping fear of...

Has dependable, authoritative knowledge ever been more valuable? After all, we live in an age where our trust in things has never been so tested, and so often, where...

Reporting season is underway, so this week we'll be looking at which companies not only met their optimistic earnings targets but knocked them out of the park, as well...

Welcome to the 2021 results season! The FNArena Reporting Season Monitor reports ratings, consensus price target changes, and brief summaries of the collective...

A monthly wrap-up of interesting and informative media on finance, economics, politics and society that you might have missed.Individual American investors are...

The proliferation of exchange-traded products presents investors with an ever-growing suite of tools for portfolio construction. As of June 2021, 620 different passive...

A family friend recently told me that they invested in Commonwealth Bank of Australia shares because it seemed popular and was the market leader among Australian...

In the AFR I write that the Commonwealth Treasury’s latest advice to government is to assume growth-destroying lockdowns on a rolling basis across Australia into 2022...

Local market had a choppy negative day that slide further negative as regulatory moves in China started to hit commodity markets. Relatively low turnover continues for...

When the Board of Directors suddenly sacks the CEO of a company ‘effective immediately’ the share price typically tanks as investors stampede for the exit, shooting...

The last year has seen many companies post massive new records – both on the upside and the downside. In fact, more than one in 10 companies in the S&P/ASX 200 has...

The trajectory of interest rates in 2021 has been notable for how rapidly they priced in economic recovery and then, beginning in mid-June, the degree to which that...

Network as a Service (NaaS) provider Megaport has been a core strategy holding for several years and performed strongly during the June quarter. Despite Australia’s...