long term investing

As 2024 unfolds, the spotlight shifts to four exceptional performers, promising an era of robust returns and strategic dominance.

Soul Patts' Executive Chairman, Robert Millner, shares lessons on the art of long-term compounding and how WHSP is positioned for the future

The power of compounding

Ally Selby (How the #1 picks went from hero to zero in just 6 months, 12 July) reckoned that the January-March quarter was “tough, tiresome and damn it, sometimes...

Morgan Housel, in his book ‘The Psychology of Money’, used a nice thought experiment on Warren Buffett to demonstrate the tremendous impact time has on creating...

For many years, the ticker for dental group 1300 Smiles appeared in one of my ‘highly profitable’ stock watchlists. Checking this watchlist is no longer the same, as...

If we have learnt anything from the last couple of years, it's that it is easy to do well when the market is rising. Everyone can make a buck when the tide lifts all...

Picture what you were doing in 2002. Ah, they were simpler times. What I was doing in addition to working my butt off was helping my mother manage her SMSF. She lived...

Markets don’t go up in a straight line (wouldn’t that be nice!).In reality, and as investors are experiencing in the current environment, volatility goes hand-in-hand...

The recent dismissal of James Hardie CEO Jack Truong highlights the importance of organisational culture and the responsibility of company directors. While an...

Marcus Today recently launched something he calls the FUFU Portfolio, which complements the ETF or “Really Boring Portfolio” (RBP), writes Marcus Padley. The FUFU...

At Claremont Global, a 10 to 15 stock concentrated quality growth manager that invests globally, we look at the portfolio in terms of the 4Ps: People, Process,...

The Australian stock market has developed a hunger for any next thing — it doesn’t even need to be a ‘next big thing’, just any next thing to fulfil a short-term...

It is often good to look back at where we have been and consider how our views have evolved over a specific period towards the current consensus. In this context,...

Despite the record reporting season past and the major wall of cash returned to investors this year, we at Airlie can't help but feel things in markets are a little...

A degree in aeronautical engineering is surely the most unconventional route for a career in funds management but it's a route that has greatly assisted Nick Kirrage,...

How important are rankings of managed funds’ results during the past 12 months? How should investors interpret them? In a key sense, rankings ARE important – but NOT...

This week we look to next year, after one of the most tumultuous global and market environments in living memory through the lens of our popular mega trends...

Blame Canada! That's where exchange-traded funds (ETF) came from; the inaugural fund, known as Toronto Index Participation Shares (TIPS), listed in 1990 and tracked...

The conventional wisdom today is that Facebook is a mature behemoth that is under intensifying risk of being penalised in a multitude of possible ways by regulators. ...