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The local market started positive on global buying and then faded before another global buying pump finished a positive day. We have gone through a whole month without...

A simple maxim in investing is that to generate a higher return you must take on more risk. This fundamental rule applies across asset classes, from equities through...

The US dollar (USD) is the most influential currency on earth and its relative strength or weakness has far-reaching implications for the global economy. In the...

Methane can be a more threatening pollutant than carbon dioxide when it comes to the greenhouse gases behind global warming. Cows for the meat and dairy industries are...

Severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, hit Taiwan hard in 2003. The virus tore through several hospitals and Heping hospital in Taipei was hastily closed,...

Despite writing this from a Sydney that is still in lockdown (and expected to remain that way for a while longer) and noting a surge in COVID-19 Delta variant cases...

The struggle to find income is not new, but is currently complicated by expectations of rising government bond yields and heightened inflation, creating risks for...

Informed investors are increasingly recognising that commercial real estate (CRE) debt is delivering higher returns relative to the underlying risk. MaxCap Group’s...

My heart goes out to the many millions of individuals, families, and businesses staring down the barrel of extreme, lockdown-induced adversity across the country right...

When Sam Granger, a 29-year-old from Sydney's Northern Beaches, jumped on a Zoom call with me last week to talk about his newly established fund Equanimity Partners (I...

Mergers and acquisitions (M&A) are often pitched with flashy PowerPoints and lofty promises, but a lot can go wrong. In this piece, we put M&A to the test. We find out...

‘Defend and protect’ is the name of the game when investing in government bonds, according to Charlie Jamieson from Jamieson Coote Bonds. As any basic financial...

Livewire recently spoke with Michael Maughan from Tyndall AM, who co-manages the Nikko AM Australian Share Income Fund* to see what the upcoming reporting season is...

Local market started strong positive on global buying before fading through the day to finish positive. Asian markets were choppy after US markets bounced back to...

2020 was planet Earth’s hottest on record - a fact that many would be forgiven for missing in what can only be described as a tumultuous year. Outside of the COVID...

The dramatic and uneven rebound in growth across countries this year is likely to ease to synchronized moderation in 2022, though to a still above-trend pace.We expect...

Inflation has been an especially hot topic in recent quarters. A range of factors have come together to see inflationary expectations increase and the core Consumer...

Over the last decade, hybrids have produced returns that have been comparable or better than most other asset classes, but for any investor that is only half the...

The Magellan Financial Group CIO Hamish Douglass and his team clearly spend many hours weighing risks. And he seems to have a knack for tuning out the market noise...

Australia might not yet have the zero-cost broking model for local shares popularised by the US platform Robinhood – or not yet anyway - but that hasn’t stopped...