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We are in the midst of a one-in-100-year pandemic, and unemployment has reached levels not seen since the Great Depression. And while market observers continue...

In a victory for the ‘no junk mail’ eco warriors and a blow for an army of 14,000 letterbox walkers, grocer Coles last week ceded to the digital age and stopped...

Mitch McConnell became senate majority leader in 2015 when Republicans regained control of the 100-strong chamber. Perhaps the most famous comment of this unflamboyant...

The global economy is springing back to life following an extraordinarily deep and synchronised contraction between February and April. Activity rebounded impressively...

While many banks and industrial companies are reducing or cancelling their dividends altogether this year, Australian Real Estate Investment Trusts (AREITS) still...

Power companies are boring but critical; water is a liquid asset with a solid outlook; and mid-sized infrastructure opportunities are on the rise, say a trio of...

Western countries continue to face problems with high debt burdens, ageing demographics, and automation. These problems have been exacerbated by COVID, and they're not...

Last week, Market Matters hosted a Resource Round Table to give an overview of the commodity market, and then delve into picks that give exposure to it, big and small....

As the dust settles on the highly anticipated August 2020 reporting season, it’s time to take stock of the major themes emerging from Australian listed companies and...

Online businesses applications, portals and websites have been the way to do business leading into 2020 and with the pandemic taking over our lives this has thrown new...

Local market had a volatile day that went almost nowhere before the big macro trade in the last hour jammed up the big three sectors to finish a positive day. Best...

Resilience /rɪˈzɪlɪəns/ noun 1. The capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. “the often remarkable resilience of so many Australian institutions” 2....

But while there’s moonlight and music, and love and romance, let’s face the music and dance… That’s kind of how it feels at the moment as we head into the later part...

Australian property investors are accustomed to negative yields – giving rise to our love affair with negative gearing. But the opposite is true in the U.K.’s major...

The size and speed of the policy response on the monetary and the fiscal side - particularly from the Federal Reserve and the US government - was truly breathtaking....

The AREIT sector had a strong bounce in August, up 7.95% for the month and outperforming the broader market, which returned +2.8%. This reporting season was one of the...

One of the pioneering local private equity investment programmes sits within MLC Asset Management. With 23 years of private equity experience Jonathan Armitage, the...

Driven by what has been often characterised as the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the technology sector has led global equity markets in recent years as the powerful...

Companies developing products for massive end markets are one of the hottest vectors of opportunity in the market right now. The idea is simple: develop a product or...

In the AFR I write that as it becomes increasingly clear that the numerous deeply pessimistic predictions for the Aussie housing market will not be realised as home...