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The U.S. is expected to spend a quarter of its entire GDP on healthcare over the next five years, while governments in the rest of the developed world will continue to...

Welcome to 2020. The bulls still have strength in numbers, but an increasing number of bears are emerging from hibernation. Those who argue that benign market...

One way investors can structure their portfolios is around ‘supertrends’ – long term themes that capture the major societal shifts underway, according to Andrew...

As well as the website, morning note and podcast, Livewire has a YouTube channel. This has taken on a life of its own, with subscribers more than quadrupling to 25,000...

Last year’s top stock calls from five fund managers who we invited to the Livewire studio brought the house down with a 59% return. The exercise was meant to be a bit...

At Livewire, we’re privileged to have access to some of the best minds in Australia’s funds management industry. Each year we work with and interview hundreds of fund...

(Ed note: First published 31st Dec 2019): We all love quality businesses, but quality usually commands a premium and sometimes that premium is just too high. In the...

Each year we run the Livewire Outlook Series where we invite a selection of fund managers to share their prophecies for the new year. But we also enjoy throwing in...

If there’s just one of our episodes you view this year, make it this one. Senior Whitehouse & Pentagon advisor and Air Force General Robert Spalding joined us to...

It’s not every day that you sit down with a member of the Australian fund managers hall of fame, let alone the first woman to be inducted. As a 20-year-old female,...

A key focus area for Nucleus currently is the lack of inflation and stagnant growth we’re seeing worldwide. With that in mind, we brought on ex-fund manager and avid...

You would usually think that long-term share investing and playing roulette are at the complete opposite ends of the spectrum as far as making money goes. Yet these...

Credit Suisse believes global growth will be a sluggish 2.5% in 2020 with a mild recovery in industrial production. A de-escalation of the trade war should lead to a...

Here we take a look at the Medical Diagnostic industry, and the Pengana High Conviction Fund’s largest holding in the company Photocure – which has been a wonderful...

You’d think that one of best performing major companies in the US this century would be a tech stock. Interestingly, it’s energy drinks maker Monster Beverages, which...

If you were to guess what’s in the portfolio of income specialist, Plato Investment Management, you probably wouldn’t have put growth juggernaut, CSL, on your list....

When Marcus Padley paid a visit to our Melbourne studio last week, we didn't miss the chance to ask about his 'Penniless at 100' wire, given that it received more...

Going against the herd with every investment you make is extremely tough mentally. By nature, people tend to conform. One of the ways people make decisions is to look...

It’s unusual to see a more than 30% allocation to financials with virtually no big banks in the mix. We had a chance to ask David Poppenbeek from K2 to run through his...

If you wrote a list of your New Year's investment resolutions, what would you include? Trade less? Avoid microcaps? Diversify more? Go global? Hold less cash? There...