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I guess it is not surprising, because I have been repeatedly threatened by vested interests in the LIC/LIT debate with personal attacks unless I withdraw from it...And...

Apart from catching up with family and friends and listening to Big Block on repeat with the kids, we spent countless hours during the recent holidays reading and...

Early December’s decision to embrace a more optimistic outlook for 2020 has proved advantageous. Easing geo-political...

As the climate debate continues to elevate and financial risks begin to mount, we expect ESG factors to become increasingly important in the investment decision-making...

Local investors have a good appetite for Australian small and medium cap companies. But there’s a huge universe of global companies in this category that are also...

Imagine investing your savings into financial securities that are guaranteed to lose you money. Sound strange? You don’t have to spread your imagination too thinly...

The last few weeks have seen escalating concern that a new coronavirus (called 2019 novel coronavirus or nCoV) originating in the Chinese city of Wuhan in Hubei...

A fairly disappointing performance from the market today given the positive leads we saw overnight while Asian markets were also in the green for the day. It seemed to...

What do you get when you throw a 32-year-fixed-income veteran into the room with a 32-year-old fixed income millennial? The Rate Debate. Darren Langer and Chris Rands...

Over the last 30 years, the average holding period for stocks on the ASX has fallen from around 6 years to less than 1 year. Despite the obvious benefits to longer...

Small and mid-cap stocks are often under-researched segments of the market but represent an area in which we often find some very under-appreciated, quality stocks...

Xero (XRO) looks set to become one of New Zealand’s great success stories. And like Phar Lap, Lorde, and other great Kiwi exports, we Australians seem set on claiming...

The ETF landscape continues to rapidly expand beyond the replication of major stock market indices such as the S&P/ASX 200 and S&P 500. Today’s investor can choose...

While the RBA has today kept Australia’s cash rate on hold, investors, particularly Australia’s 3.8 million retirees continue to be faced with what has now become a...

There is a certain seductiveness to a bearish investment argument. The chance to appear like a rational actor in a crazy world. The opportunity to be able to say “I...

The major miners BHP, Rio Tinto and Fortescue endured a horrible run during the mid-2010s amid the commodities meltdown. After battening down the hatches and disposing...

In September last year we penned a piece titled the ‘Impact of negative rates on global capital flows’ in which we laid out the case for increasing demand for higher...

The LMI Monthly Update, from Independent Investment Research, takes a look at recent activity in the LMI sector and provides a view of key themes and issues within the...

The 2020 Coronavirus has become a cultural meme, like Kony 2012, or bitcoin in 2018. I’d guess most people on the planet have talked about it in the last 24 hours. ...

Following on the from weakness we saw overseas on Friday where the Dow Jones fell more than -600pts/-2%, Australian stocks were under the pump today, particularly the...