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Just like lying to your doctor about your alcohol consumption, or telling strangers that you've never watched The Bachelor, many of us (read: most) might not want to...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a decent investor in possession of a good sense of opportunity is in want of one great stock pick. Well, maybe not. But we...

There are some trades that so fill us with joy we become like a proud parent championing their children's sporting achievements, talking the ear off family and...

At the beginning of the year, we identified rare earth elements and battery metals as a key theme in our article “2020 Investment Themes & Opportunities”. The...

Short-term market volatility has been on the mind of Livewire contributors, but on a long-term view, the market often proves rational. With the rise of passive...

Amazon, Google, Woolworths, Tesla. No this isn’t an Ari Gold sales pitch(1) but rather a list of recent contract announcements by ASX companies we’ve seen greeted...

A ‘Materially’ Different Take on Infrastructure: Betting Big Behind the Scenes on Coronado Global Resources (CRN.ASX) +20% in 2 Weeks with More to Come!...

We're covering two week's worth of raises in this edition. The week of the 7th September saw $477m of fresh equity issued across 21 transactions. Nearmap, PointsBet...

Just under $698m was raised this week across 23 placements. The largest among them were for IOOF ($452m) and Orocobre ($126m). There hasn't been as many rescue raises...

Just over $280m of funding was raised this week for listed Aussie companies. Of the 24 raises that were completed, more than 70% of the capital went to Splitit (SPT) ,...

The week before last was one of the slowest of the year in capital markets, barely $100m was raised and the majority of volume was concentrated at the smaller end of...

The gold rush continues, and this week it took up most of the action. 19 of the 28 placements that closed were for small cap mining companies, almost all of these had...

It was a big week. A whopping 35 placements were closed, and a tad over $938m of fresh funds made its way through markets. There were two things on every investor and...

Are you a sensible investor? Then you are almost certainly having a few thoughts about technology stocks, including regret, regret at not holding technology stocks,...

$235m was raised during the past week across 16 deals. Not a lot to sink our teeth into and a far-cry from what we saw when the COVID raising-spree began. The end of...

33 placements were completed this week, raising a total of $1.7b in fresh equity. The bulk of this was for Qantas, but a resurgence of small cap activity filled the...

Daniel and David discuss the Alceon High Conviction Absolute Return Fund, and dig into how Daniel thinks about running the absolute return focused strategy. The fund,...

Market volatility has been creeping up this month - new COVID cases, stimulus uncertainty and geo-political games are all to blame. Volatility and capital markets...

Investors have been spoilt for choice in recent weeks. The ASX200 raises have slowed down (for now) but there's still been plenty at the small/mid cap end for...

The recovery rally continues. There was quite a bit more for followers of capital markets to sink their teeth into this week. Just over $1.5b was raised across 30...