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China’s middle class is expected to double to over 600 million people in the next five years, according to global asset manager Magellan Financial Group. The upper...

After 11-years of running a single investment strategy, VGI Partners is launching a second strategy via a new listed investment company. VGI Partners Asian Investments...

At face value, the August reporting season in Australia was disappointing, but not quite negative enough to spook investors into a general flight out of Australian...

As expected, the US Federal Reserve opted to cut official interest rates by 0.25 percent this week taking the rate down to 2.0 percent. In the press conference that...

When Qiao Ma, Portfolio Manager at Cooper Investors, was an elementary student in China, she and many of the other children in the class were excited about a new...

Today I argue that in response to the 2008 crisis central banks and treasuries have thrown the baby out with the bathwater. Unable to tolerate the pain associated with...

Tear gas, water cannons, students suited-up in riot gear and barricades set on fire. These are not scenes I would expect from Hong Kong – the world’s most visited city...

A big week comes to a close with a weekend filled with footy headlined tonight with the Mighty Sea Eagles taking on Souths, while I’m not trekking out to ANZ Stadium...

One of the better-known market anomalies is the momentum effect. This describes the tendency for stocks that have recently performed well to have a better-than-average...

The downgrade of Ford Motor Co this week by Moody’s from Baa3 to Ba1 (equivalent to BBB- and BB+ rating monikers for Standard and Poor’s) opens up the question of...

The Australian dollar has struggled this week, as a rise in Australia’s unemployment rate raised expectations of an RBA rate cut next month and the US dollar bounced...

We think the likelihood of quantitative easing (QE) in Australia is tied closely to the risk of global recession. If you believe a global recession is near (we view...

Humans are drawn to simplicity. It's appealing when an investment has a good narrative that is easy to understand. The problem is they are likely to be appealing to...

As uranium bulls, we are getting excited for the last few months of 2019 - which could see the uranium price appreciate materially. We are expecting the spot price of...

What defines ‘good’, ‘bad’, and ‘ugly’ in Australia’s equity markets today? Each of these three panellists from this year’s Livewire Live has a decidedly different...

The evolving trade war, weakening global growth, a Chinese recovery, the Aussie dollar, and central bank policies including discussions with Philip Lowe; these were...

In 1934, just five years after the great crash of 1929, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd published the first edition of “Security Analysis”. At 1.2 kilograms and 752...

The Blue Sky Alternatives Acess Fund (ASX: BAF) is not without its risks and is more complicated than most LICs in the market. However, we believe it also offers a...

Few things get resource investors' hearts racing like a porphyry discovery, as Alkane's soaring share price showed this week. Now the spotlight turns to Alkane’s...

Fifth generation cellular network technology is the next step in the evolution of digital communications. Faster transfer of data, lower latency, reduced congestion...