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Market downturns are painful to go through and are an unavoidable part of investing.  The way you handle periods when your investment portfolio is declining, can...

Here at Livewire, we are fortunate enough to speak with the country's top investors every day. And if there is one recommendation these pros have consistently repeated...

Nathan is one of the many followers of the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early), an ethos that turns its back on mass consumerism, and instead...

The aging population is a well-appreciated phenomenon and a challenge for policy makers around the world. The combination of demographic changes resulting from...

Warren Buffett once observed that “In stocks, it’s the only place where, when things go on sale, people get unhappy.” Which is ironic, because bear markets give...

“Occasionally Berkshire gets a chance to do something. It’s not because we’re smarter. … we’re sane. That’s the main requirement in this business” - Warren Buffett ...

I recently realised that my years of dating terrible boyfriends prepped me for my journey in investment markets. For example, I've learnt that when it sounds like a...

Jim, like many of our readers, spends his days investing and thinking about markets. But unlike many, he does it aboard a boat.  Jim and his wife, Adriana, have been...

Daniel is what some might call a vagabond. Born to a roving police officer in Darwin, he recalls growing up in four different towns across the Top End before...

Investors with a penchant for small caps may know of Simon Conn, the long-standing senior portfolio manager of Investors Mutual's small and mid-cap funds. In this...

In April 2021, a reader, Andrew, suggested we go directly to the Livewire audience and ask them about investing. Soon after, "Meet the Investor" was born. Here, you'll...

It’s human nature that we tend to favour certainty in the stock market. But times of heightened uncertainty can lead to great opportunities for investors who position...

The problem with an international best-seller such as James O'Shaughnessy's What Works On Wall Street is that a reader in Australia can wrestle their way through...

July is a natural time for us to review the financial year just past – both in terms of The Montgomery Fund as well as the investment journey of the broader market....

As society was exhaling from the post-war world of 1946, Arthur Lefford from New York University’s Department of Psychology took particular interest in people’s...

They say from little things, big things grow. And that is certainly true for Australian companies. But on every company's way to the top, they have to pass through a...

Since listing in June 1994, the performance of CSL (ASX: CSL) has been nothing but spectacular, with the stock ultimately growing into the ASX200's largest...

Surging markets in the wake of COVID-19 have attracted a new generation of first-time investors. But rather than invest using time-honoured principles, many are...

Everyone has an Afterpay story. Or at least, most of the investors I know. Personally, I was told by multiple analysts to invest in early 2018, when its share price...

Government bonds have long been a mainstay in a properly balanced portfolio but need to be employed with caution. As we have seen over the last few years, the...