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Buy, hold, sell: Six ETFs for your portfolio
From a fund that gives exposure to Australia’s biggest companies to a huge growth e-sports thematic.
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Investors defy tougher lending conditions to bid in hot market
Agents claim investors are surging back despite higher borrowing rates and even quarantine.
- Duncan Hughes
- Opinion
- Property market
Unpacking the link between interest rates, rents and house prices
New research using the RBA’s internal housing model confirms the boom will be long and strong.
- Christopher Joye
Can I use equity in SMSF property to buy more?
While individual investors can borrow against real estate assets to create a portfolio, this doesn’t work when it comes to DIY super funds.
- John Wasiliev
Sanjeev Gupta bid for yacht in January
The 64-metre schooner Atlantic is the perfect vessel for an arriviste trying ridiculously hard to simulate establishment bona fides.
- Joe Aston
The Millennial investors taking on the ‘stockmarket boys’ club’
Sophie Dicker and Maddy Guest want to encourage more young women to start investing, creating wealth and pursuing financial independence.
- Aleks Vickovich
Wealthiest Australians
Hard border hits truck driver shortage, iron ore exports
Mineral Resources’ Chris Ellison has blamed WA’s hard border for creating a truck driver shortage that has left iron ore ‘sitting idle’.
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- Peter Ker
Rich Lister family sells Sun Hotel in Byron Bay
The Flannery family has sold a Byron Bay pub it built in 2014 to focus on operating the nearby Elements of Byron resort.
- Martin Kelly
Canva wants to be design platform of choice
Sydney-based Canva has its sights set on becoming the design platform of choice for every single internet user around the world as it cracks the 55 million user mark with a market value of $US15 billion ($19.6 billion).
- Miranda Ward
Yesterday
- Opinion
- Flat Chat
Bungled holiday let rules put on hold
When NSW Planning tried to finish its code of conduct, it was the start of a whole new set of problems.
- Jimmy Thomson
Inside the female billionaires’ club that shows how to profit in 2021
A new rich list shows a marked increase in the ratio of women – but dig beneath the numbers and the same old patterns emerge.
- Rosa Silverman
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
Strong turnaround potential in Micro Focus
A third of the way into a three-year turnaround strategy, the British-listed software provider is wooing back investors.
- Greg Smith
- Opinion
- Investing
Supply chain threats from climate change
The Suez Canal blockage is a warning to investors that changing weather conditions are making global shipping disruptions much more common.
- Shehriyar Antia
This Month
Journalist feared exposure of ‘rort’ in Plutus blackmail plot
A veteran TV journalist has told a court he was manipulated, was given limited information and was not told about a plan to blackmail a tax fraud syndicate for $5 million.
- David Marin-Guzman
- Analysis
- Cryptocurrencies
Coinbase’s listing looks primed to pop
A modest reference price, some spectacular financials, hype, and army of believers point to fireworks for Coinbase’s watershed listing.
- Tom Richardson
ETFs just hit $100b. Here’s what five investment advisers had to say
Australian investors have tipped $46 billion into exchange-traded funds listed on the ASX and Chi-X in the past 12 months. But are they making the right call?
- Aleks Vickovich
- Opinion
- SMSFs
Three tips when changing SMSF trustees
The process can be relatively simple as it largely involves paperwork. It doesn’t require assets to be sold or moved to a new super fund but it does create some traps.
- Meg Heffron
The Aussie stocks ready to benefit from electric vehicles
Although many investors might be priced out of investing in stocks such as Tesla, there are other ways to get a piece of the EV action.
- William McInnes
Generation Z is going to have a hard time getting rich
People born from the mid-to-late 1990s to early 2010s will earn a third less on stock and bond investments than past generations, Credit Suisse has found.
BlackRock scores biggest-ever ETF launch with new ESG fund
The asset manager’s Carbon Transition Readiness exchange-traded fund has made a $US1.25 billion debut in the environmental, social, and governance sector.
- Alastair Marsh
UN chief backs wealth tax on rich who profited from pandemic
There has been a $6.6 trillion surge in the wealth of the world’s richest in the past year, according to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres.
- David Wainer
Proptech poised for post-pandemic boom
Institutional investors are pouring billions of dollars into exclusive real estate technology funds. These small cap stocks offer retail investors a taste.
- Aleks Vickovich
- Opinion
- Investing
Money behaviour lessons for investors
Successful investing is less about studying finance and more about understanding your own relationship with money.
- Tim Mackay
- Opinion
- Cryptocurrencies
Cryptocurrency’s place in a diversified portfolio
A good place to start is a blend of passive physically backed, institutional-quality exposure to sector leaders and a diversified fund to track evolving trends.
- Scott Haslem
Goldsky hedge fund founder charged with dishonest conduct
Ken Grace, the founder of the Kingscliff hedge fund that embroiled locals and sporting personalities, is facing multiple criminal charges.
- Jonathan Shapiro
- Opinion
- Inflation
Taking stock of inflation risk to equity portfolios
While prices are likely to rebound in the short term supporting value and defensive stocks, inflation is unlikely to be high enough to derail valuations.
- James Wright
- Opinion
- Sharemarket
‘Core-satellite’ approach gets best of active and index investing
This concept recognises the fundamental differences between the two and combines the best aspects of both to construct a portfolio.
- Aidan Geysen
Watch out - four-year fixed rates are on the march
The Reserve Bank of Australia does not expect to raise rates until 2024, so why are some fixed-rate home loans moving now?
- James Frost
