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Move over cryptocurrencies. There’s a new kid on the block(chain) – non-fungible tokens (NFTs). And if you’re an investor, you need to know about them. Because there...

There’s an old joke about a lost tourist in Ireland who asks one of the locals for directions back to Dublin: the local responds, “Well sir, if I were you, I wouldn’t...

Local market was aimless and finished mainly flat on another low turnover day. The trend suggests that we are heading to four weeks of low turnover holiday season....

With our international borders still resolutely padlocked, the absence of foreign students poses an ongoing existential threat to our universities and other parties...

The monetary and fiscal stimulus poured into the global economy, in particular the US, over the last 12 months has seen our team find new opportunities for growth and...

Investment markets have staged an impressive recovery in the 12 months since the economic shutdowns of March 2020. But it remains to be seen how soon vaccine rollouts...

Welcome to Q2! Things have moved fast since my original post (both in terms of market movements and the general consensus/sentiment). So I thought it would be helpful...

In recent months, much has been said on growth versus value, and tech stocks versus cyclical stocks. But focusing on these labels misses the true underlying driver of...

After one of the longest periods of underperformance in history, governments and central banks' response to the COVID-19 crisis may well have ushered in a new era for...

They're big, they're bold, but they've been bleeding red through investors' portfolios. Over the past 12 months, ASX darlings CSL (ASX:CSL), Brambles (ASX:BXB) and...

Education, education, education. You asked for it and we listened. In our annual reader survey, it was one of the most requested topics for the Livewire team to cover....

The local market had a choppy negative day on low turnover. We just started a new week on low turnover, like the last three weeks in the holiday season. Healthcare and...

In this concluding piece, we introduce some more concrete investment options in the global listed equity space that we think may benefit from increased investment in...

The latest version of Coolabah’s Complexity Premia podcast, hosted by myself and Ying Yi Ann Cheng, is live where we discuss key developments in macro markets,...

The origin of the term "crying" for Auctioneers followed a time when Roman soldiers would thrust spears into the ground to signal the start of the sale of auctions for...

For mostly obvious reasons, 2020 was the wildest year in recent memory for the global economy and markets across all asset classes. We saw markets fall and economic...

In the past we have commented several times on the relative performance of value vs growth investing, including this article from the middle of last year, which...

Bonds have been in the news lately as we have seen growth rebound, inflation expectations rebound, and bond yields rising. In our April 2021 Update from the Australia...

At the recent Heathcote Meet the Managers roadshow, 13 investment managers presented, and it was surprising that almost every single presentation in one way or another...

The last month marked the anniversary of the rapid global spread of COVID-19. It was a time of massive panic, underscored by unknown health risks, school and office...