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Ask the analyst: Could Endeavour suffer from lower booze consumption and tighter gambling rules?
Could health concerns and legislation pose a threat to Australia's biggest liquor retailing and gaming group? Our analyst Johannes Faul has his say.
Ask the analyst: Could Endeavour suffer from lower booze consumption and tighter gambling rules?
Ask the analyst: Could Endeavour suffer from lower booze consumption and tighter gambling rules?
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Should you avoid this highflying ASX share?

Should you avoid this highflying ASX share?

A sound business model but the shares are expensive.
personal-finance
Defying the stereotype of the star investor

Defying the stereotype of the star investor

The way success is portrayed is influential. We often follow the wrong role models.
markets
Chart of the week: To hedge or not to hedge your portfolio?

Chart of the week: To hedge or not to hedge your portfolio?

The Chart of the Week looks at hedged vs. unhedged performance and why investors would choose one over another.
retirement
How private assets are transforming capital markets and super

How private assets are transforming capital markets and super

Super funds and private assets in the spotlight after ASIC release. 
markets
How to keep your cool in a volatile market

How to keep your cool in a volatile market

There’s a lot happening, but long-term investors can tune most of it out.
personal-finance
Future Focus: My investment portfolio used to be gold bangles

Future Focus: My investment portfolio used to be gold bangles

For International Women’s Day, I explore the ways that women have taken back financial control.

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Future Focus: What are you giving up by sending your kids to private school?

Future Focus: What are you giving up by sending your kids to private school?

A listener requested exploration of optimising saving for education costs, and the opportunity costs of higher education expenses.
personal-finance
Future Focus: Buying a home out of reach? Try these financial goals instead.

Future Focus: Buying a home out of reach? Try these financial goals instead.

A framework to understand what you want from life and therefore your finances.
personal-finance
Future Focus: A better way to use financial advisers' favourite investment strategy

Future Focus: A better way to use financial advisers' favourite investment strategy

An exploration of strategic and tactical allocation, and an alternative way to use Core/Satellite.
retirement
Unconventional wisdom: Add certainty to your retirement

Unconventional wisdom: Add certainty to your retirement

What a trip to Monte Carlo can teach you about having a more secure retirement. 
personal-finance
Unconventional wisdom: Are passive ETFs leading to lower returns?

Unconventional wisdom: Are passive ETFs leading to lower returns?

Does a study showing investors that own passive products get lower returns mean John Bogle was wrong?
stocks
Unconventional wisdom: A controversial income pick

Unconventional wisdom: A controversial income pick

Rigid definitions of income and growth shares may be holding investors back.
personal-finance
Bookworm: How a huge ASX winner upset the odds

Bookworm: How a huge ASX winner upset the odds

Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers help us understand an ASX star's unlikely rise to dominance.
personal-finance
Bookworm: Should this method have scored me a 30 bagger?

Bookworm: Should this method have scored me a 30 bagger?

Richard Koch's Star Principle offers a simple way to find high potential companies.
personal-finance
Bookworm: Legendary fundie exposes mistake in my portfolio

Bookworm: Legendary fundie exposes mistake in my portfolio

Anthony Bolton delivered incredible long-term returns for investors in the Fidelity Special Situations Fund. What can we learn from his approach?