contrarian investing

Last year was one the worst on record for global stock markets. Yet the MSCI World Index has returned to levels that can hardly be described as cheap, trading at...

Arguably the time is ripe to be hunting for undervalued stocks. Markets are choppy. Interest rates are rising. Inflation is high. Investors are nervy. Striking gold...

As bottom-up stockpickers, we go where our most compelling individual investment ideas take us. Sometimes the stocks that we find attractive are classified by others...

Mistakes are a part of life. But reflecting and learning from them is one of the keys to being a successful investor says Tim Hillier from Allan Gray Australia. ...

Despite a worldwide rotation into value and cyclically-exposed companies, the rotation in Australia has been modest, and weighted to the performance of just seven...

It takes a special type of person to be a contrarian investor. Few people are willing to buy companies while others predict doom. It requires accepting that you won’t...

Our lack of exposure to the high-growth technology sector and the stable earnings streams from the healthcare and consumer staples sectors may seem extreme. But so are...

COVID-19 has wreaked havoc on all our lives and parents in particular have found it challenging. With childcare centres shutting early in the piece, parents were not...

If there’s one thing to say about this market, it’s that investors appear happy to leave the unloved sectors ¬alone. Take oil, for example. The oil price is currently...

A lot has happened over the last quarter, with equity markets enjoying a very sharp rebound. Most economies have begun to reopen and many people’s lives are beginning...

An investor’s best friend… Google. We all use it, we all love it. Google processes approximately 70,000 search queries per second, meaning 5.8 billion searches per...

Sharemarkets are the most volatile they’ve been in the past 20 years. Increased uncertainty, fear, forced and panic selling, as well as reduced liquidity, are all...

Looking back on the start to 2020, it's hard to know where to begin. In Australia, the widespread and devastating bushfires had barely been extinguished by damaging...

Since the start of 2020, the S&P/ASX 200 has lost a quarter of its value; while the Financials and Energy sub-sectors have fared even worse with declines of 30% and...

It’s often said that good investing is a matter of waiting to see the opportunity, acting decisively when the time comes and then being brave enough to hold your nerve...

In our 2020 Outlook Series, Simon Mawhinney of Allan Gray called it correctly with this idiom: “It’s the bus you don’t see that hits you”. While this is an apt...

Australia’s sharemarket returns have been stellar in 2019. At approximately 24% they have comfortably exceeded the average over the past 30 years of 11% (before being...

At the start of 2019, I selected a A recession proof, property proof ASX portfolio for Livewire. An equal weighted investment in the 12 stocks would have returned...

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...

The contrarian approach to investing is perhaps as old as investing itself. In 1815, the British economist David Ricardo made a fortune buying British government bonds...