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What images come to mind when you think about your retirement? An annual holiday in Europe, perhaps? Maybe even splurge on a business class ticket? Well, if you’re...

Given the expectation of increased volatility at this later stage of an expansion, we see global fixed income as playing an increasingly important role in providing...

In the late twentieth century the emerging economies operated much as they had in the early twentieth century. The largest sector in the MSCI Emerging Markets Index,...

Waiting for the depressed uranium market to turn is like waiting on the platform for a tardy train, but the fundamentals for a recovery are in place. Given the number...

2018 was tough for most asset classes with the blowtorch being applied in the final quarter of the year. While markets have rebounded in 2019 the volatility provided a...

The market traded lower today thanks to weakness from overseas markets last night and again during our time zone today, however despite the day being dominated by...

Small caps roared back to life in 2019 following the liquidity injection provided by the "Fed pivot," with tech stocks leading the way and helping the ASX small...

WAM Global (ASX:WGB) is a listed investment company that invests in a portfolio of global stocks. The focus is predominantly on small to mid-cap stocks...

With stocks near all-time-highs, there is steadily accumulating evidence that this may be a historic time to sell. PMIs are diving. PMIs give false signals (eg 2016...

We recently moved to reduce the amount of risk in our model portfolios. This followed the escalation in US-China trade tensions after President Trump increased the...

Think Childcare (“Think”) has developed or acquired and manages 74 childcare centres, up from 44 at the time of the IPO (2014) with 11 more currently in the pipeline....

Why should investors in smaller companies expect a higher return? What are the risks involved? And what are the opportunities? In this four part series, we set out the...

With no overseas lead to key off this morning, local stocks were muted from the outset however continued strength in the Iron Ore price and reasonable buying through...

After nearly a year of volatile markets, we reached out to three of our portfolio managers to get their thoughts on the most exciting investments for the year ahead....

Here's some of the standout charts on my radar. I aim to pick a good mix of charts covering key global macro trends, and ones which highlight risks and opportunities...

The VGI Partners Global Investments Limited (ASX:VG1) pro-rata renounceable Entitlement Offer will close at 5:00pm (AEST) on Thursday, 6 June 2019. VG1 shareholders...

When compulsory super was introduced 25 years ago you could rely on cash and fixed income. These days, the RBA cash rate is 1.5%, 10-year bonds yield less than 2% and...

If you research Australia’s largest listed companies, you’ll discover that some of them were much smaller stocks not that long ago. Small or medium companies can be...

Headline performance of miners since 2016 has been sterling. The ASX100 Resources and Small Resources have both posted strong gains, with capital returns of 2x from...

One of the unlikely outcomes from what we now might call the “franking credits scare” that dominated the election campaign has been the realisation among many...