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How to read the forces shaping markets
As a new US president is decided, QE starts in Australia and COVID-19 gets worse in the northern hemisphere, professional investors outline the options.
- Sarah Turner
- Opinion
- Quantitative easing
Housing bears run scared, RBA steps up
Australian housing has registered its first national capital gain since the pandemic started, while the RBA is helping to lift the country out of recession.
- Christopher Joye
Buy, hold, sell: Visa, Microsoft, HelloFresh, MarketAxess, Lowe's
Growth stocks with structural tailwinds has had a massive 2020. Two fund managers look at which ones will be able to keep the momentum.
- Opinion
- SMSFs
SMSF trustee guide to navigating way through pandemic
With COVID-19 having moved the goalposts even more dramatically than the GFC, failure to keep up with the changes will be costly.
- John Maroney
- Opinion
- Superannuation
How in-house investments unravelled Dixon
John Wasiliev looks at what went wrong at Dixon Advisory and what happens next.
- John Wasiliev
Meet the Millennial smashing his dad at share trading
What started as a hobby for 31-year-old Tom Lowe, quickly became a friendly stockpicking competition with his dad.
- Aleks Vickovich
Wealthiest Australians
Goodman primed for earnings upgrade on e-commerce boom
With JP Morgan expecting full-year earnings per share growth close to 12 per cent, Goodman is on track to upgrade its guidance at the half-year mark.
- Larry Schlesinger
Rich Lister Jack Cowin clean sweep with Coles plant-based meat deal
No.17 on the AFR Rich List is a big backer of v2foods, which now has mainstream distribution across both major supermarket chains.
- Simon Evans
- Analysis
- Wealth Generation
How to become a Financial Review Rich Lister
What the 2020 ranking can teach us about building and maintaining immense wealth in the most volatile of market conditions.
- Aleks Vickovich
This Month
Surge in demand for $10m-plus homes
Wealthy buyers are buying second and third luxury homes as COVID-19 restrictions prevent overseas travel and state restrictions ease.
- Duncan Hughes
- Opinion
- Flat Chat
'Party animals' letting code slammed as toothless window dressing
An exclusion register for badly-behaved short-term holiday hosts and tenants sounds great – except it's not running yet.
- Jimmy Thomson
Rate cut worsens yield dilemma for investors, retirees
Wealth advisers were scrambling on Wednesday to quell savers' anger over the cut in official interest rates to a record low 0.10 per cent.
- Aleks Vickovich and Matthew Cranston
- Analysis
- Wealth Generation
How to become a Financial Review Rich Lister
What the 2020 ranking can teach us about building and maintaining immense wealth in the most volatile of market conditions.
- Aleks Vickovich
Rinehart's Hancock Prospecting surges to $4b profit
Rich List queen Gina Rinehart reaps rich rewards from soaring iron ore prices.
- Brad Thompson
- Opinion
- SMSFs
SMSF asset allocation conundrum
Rather than chasing returns, it might be better to understand the risk-adjusted return that you require or want from your DIY fund.
- Ben Smythe
- Opinion
- Hybrids
Why hybrids offer defensive potential but have strings attached
Some argue that investors shouldn't lose sleep buying a bank hybrid provided they are comfortable holding it until maturity.
- James Weir
Wealth takeaways from fast-food stocks
If recent jitters in global shares morph into a correction, investors comfortable with mid- and small-cap stocks could get a fast-food fix at lower prices.
- Tony Featherstone
- Opinion
- Rear Window
Patriotism and Kerry Packer's tax lawyer
Kezza the Bahamas patriot may no longer be with us, but his tax lawyer has much to offer accountants . . . as a regulator.
- Neil Chenoweth
- Opinion
- Investing
Best ways to structure and pass on wealth
Family trusts and investment companies offer more flexibility than super: this is how they work.
- Michael Hutton
- Opinion
- Global economy
Is the pandemic making us more productive?
To reap the full benefits of newly-found virtual tools, it's vital to find ways to establish boundaries between work and other parts of our lives.
- Nathan Sheets
October
Rich List 2020 in pictures
Financial Review photographers Louie Douvis and Dom Lorrimer worked their magic on the 2020 Rich listers. Here's a gallery of their work.
Buy, hold, sell: Afterpay, ANZ, Transurban, Woodside Petroleum, CSL
Two fund managers look at the stocks that you can afford to buy on a 10-year view.
- Opinion
- Quantitative easing
ANZ's Elliott is wrong about RBA's QE
Rather than criticising the central bank while borrowing billions from it at near-zero interest rates, fat-cat bankers should focus on how they can help the RBA get workers back into jobs, writes Christopher Joye.
- Christopher Joye
The full list: Australia's wealthiest 200 revealed
The Financial Review Rich List for 2020 proves it was a good year to own an iron ore mine. An office tower? Not so much.
- Updated
- Michael Bailey and Julie-anne Sprague
Watch: Who made the cut and who didn't?
The AFR Rich List editors discuss this year's list – who made the cut and who didn't, and why.
- Updated
Ruslan and Anastasia Kogan: The making of a power couple
Newly married and newly minted, Ruslan and Anastasia Kogan are breaking new digital ground in business, technology and the arts.
- Michael Bailey
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
Why Disney's focus on streaming gives it a long growth runway
Managing content creation will put Disney in control of making what consumers want most, delivered in the way they prefer to consume it.
- Greg Smith
The first-time female investors backing Adore Beauty
The most valuable public float of 2020 lured long-time customers and fans to the sharemarket – but they want to see more female-led ASX companies.
- Aleks Vickovich
