This Month
WA works to overcome its venture capital drought
The mining state has found itself “underweight” when it comes to venture capital, with scores of start-ups forced to look interstate or overseas for early investment.
- Updated
- Tom Rabe
- Opinion
- Monetary policy
These are the factors complicating investment decisions in 2024
Economic reality in 2024 is likely to be far less binary, and much more nuanced, than many market participants and policymakers believe.
- Rana Foroohar
- Exclusive
- eSports
PAC Capital owner Clayton Larcombe may have bailed out investors
The former stockbroker may have used personal assets to improve the performance of his esports funds, an unusual but not illegal practice.
- Aaron Patrick
In Dubai, IFM Investors emerges as a global green player
As the super fund backed firm reinvents itself as a global business with Aussie roots, CEO David Neal jetted to the COP28 summit to rub shoulders with the corporate climate crowd.
- Hans van Leeuwen
- Opinion
- Managed funds
The ‘alpha’ edge: three fund management success stories
With the advent of the $3.5 trillion in compulsory savings via superannuation, Australia has become a breeding ground for some of the best investment talent on the planet.
- Christopher Joye
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- Australian Property Scout
Long-sighted investors sticking with property
Interest rate rises and patchy housing markets can be a smokescreen concealing the ambitions of committed, long-term property investors.
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by Australian Property Scout
Why it’s time to rediscover unloved assets
Debt markets, overlooked healthcare stocks and small caps are among the opportunities professional investors are betting on for the year ahead.
- Joanna Mather
Ignore global assets at your peril
Over-emphasising Australian assets in a portfolio at the expense of global stocks can mean missing out on fast-growing sectors and heightens risk.
- Alexandra Cain
Is now the time to buy REITs?
With the peak in interest rates in sight, it may be time to consider the listed property trusts again. But be careful which stocks you buy, experts say.
- Larry Schlesinger
What these fundies want to buy in 2024
After the most rapid interest rate hiking cycle in decades, experts agree on one thing: investors need to do their research, more than ever.
- Lucy Dean
Vanguard’s biggest bond ETF becomes first to break $151b
The highest yields in years have made fixed-income more appealing, while exchange traded funds have consistently stolen market share from their more expensive mutual fund brethren.
- Katie Greifeld
November
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- Investor Partner Group
Investing for good – and profit
When it comes to responsible investing, climate has been a huge drawcard. But providing affordable and social housing is drawing investor interest.
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by Investor Partner Group
Munger ‘ran a mile from win-lose deals’, says his Aussie ‘soulmate’
Charlie Munger last year made a personal investment in a holding company managed by Melburnian Charles Jennings’ Stonehouse Corporation.
- John Kehoe
Munger’s infamous quotes live on. Here are some of the best
If Warren Buffett is the king of the investment wisecrack, then his business partner Charlie Munger, who died on Wednesday aged 99, was the ideal straight man.
- James Thomson and Jonathan Shapiro
Legendary investor Berkshire Hathaway’s Charlie Munger dies aged 99
The legendary investor, who helped Warren Buffett build Berkshire Hathaway into an investment powerhouse, died at a California hospital.
- Updated
- Josh Funk
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
Investors predict soft landing US recession in 2024
The consensus forecast for next year is a mild US recession, with bonds becoming more attractive.
- Katie Martin
How to avoid being ‘dangerously concentrated’ in yesterday’s winners
Growth investors have experienced a decade of “phenomenal” returns, but value investors insist the next 10 years will be very different.
- Lucy Dean
- Exclusive
- ETFs
Gen X overtake Millennials as the biggest buyers of ETFs
The pandemic-era wave of young exchange-traded fund investors has slumped by 42 per cent, with 300,000 investors aged 18 to 34 selling out over the past two years.
- Lucy Dean
‘No brainer’: Why this ex JB Hi-Fi CEO backed a Byron laundry
Businessman and Byron Bay local Richard Uechtritz has wrangled $12 million to open the Byron Shire’s only commercial laundry.
- Tess Bennett
Bank profits may have peaked. Are they still a buy for investors?
Analysts and financial advisers have different views on which of the country’s major financial institutions will offer the best return for shareholders.
- Lucy Dean
