This Month
- Opinion
- Investing
How Australia’s ‘magnificent 10’ contributed to returns over 20 years
How costly was failing to pick the ASX’s 10 top performers over the past two decades? Vanguard did the sums
- Carole Okigbo
August
- Opinion
- Governance
India’s sharemarket regulator chief needs to explain herself on Adani
Madhabi Puri Buch, the chairwoman of India’s Securities and Exchange Board, was an investor in the Adani network. Why has she cleared the company?
- Andy Mukherjee
The hunt for truly diverse investments – from alligators to concrete
With regular asset classes increasingly correlated, wealthy investors are looking to some esoteric choices.
- Alan Livsey
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- J.P. Morgan
Fundamental research key for tapping global markets
As Australia’s stock market capitalisation pales in comparison to global equities, fundamental research has become a cornerstone for investment firms.
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by J.P. Morgan
Private credit firms find $1trn target in rich Australians
Opportunities in the sector are now becoming more accessible to individuals, but investors should beware.
- Sharon Klyne
- Opinion
- Investing
Small caps are as cheap as they’ve been this century
The phenomenal – albeit short – rally we saw in July is evidence that when small caps finally take off, they can move quickly.
- James Weir
Why the rich are decarbonising their portfolios
Wind and solar may have disappointed, but wealth managers see opportunity in areas such as waste management and disability housing.
- Joanna Mather
Young investors buy geared ETFs as property becomes a pipe dream
Leverage is what makes the housing market such a wealth juggernaut. Should ETFs get the same treatment?
- Lucy Dean
- Opinion
- Quantitative easing
Market gyrations reflect fears about the unwinding of QE
Bountiful free money is not a “normal” state of affairs, and the sooner investors realise this the better. And that includes central bankers.
- Gillian Tett
Buy the dip: Twenty-six shares fundies would snap up in another rout
More wild market swings are predicted in coming months by some experts. We asked fund managers where they see opportunity.
- Lucy Dean
- Opinion
- Superannuation
Why I’m glad I dumped my industry super fund
After his SMSF regularly beat the performance of his former industry super fund for over a decade, Tony Boyd urges more Australians to take control of their super.
- Tony Boyd
Buffett halves his Apple stake in $116b stock dump
The cash pile at Berkshire Hathaway has soared to $US425 billion as Warren Buffett struggles to find stocks to buy.
- Updated
- Amanda Cantrell and Alexandre Rajbhandari
- Opinion
- Investing
Why investors should take notice of Japan’s resurgence
With its equity market finally breaching highs not seen since 1989, there is growing evidence Japan’s structural reforms are working.
- Todd Hoare
July
Where to invest as the tech megacap rally eases
Signs that equity investors are getting cold feet over the rapid advances in artificial intelligence leaders have put a spotlight on some less obvious beneficiaries of the technology boom.
- Sangmi Cha, Ivy Chok and Natalia Kniazhevich
Ten books that could help you become a better investor
We asked money managers, financial advisers and a self-made multimillionaire to nominate the books that taught them the most about creating wealth.
- Tom Richardson
The Aussie funds that beat bitcoin and big tech
It was often savvy bets at the smaller end of the market that shot the top-performing fund managers to the top of the leader table in the last financial year.
- Updated
- Joshua Peach
- Opinion
- Private equity
Private equity has become hazardous terrain for investors
The days of easy windfalls from freakishly loose monetary policy are gone. Now, private capital is much more hazardous terrain for investors.
- John Plender
Reshaping finance
Probing the changing outlook for cryptocurrency investing, decentralised assets, blockchain technology and Web 3.0 at the Financial Review’s Crypto & Digital Assets Summit 2024.