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Shani Jayamanne

Shani Jayamanne is a Director, Investment Specialist at Morningstar Australia.

In the next edition of her new Future Focus column, which will be published every Wednesday, Shani revealed why she has not opened a self-managed super fund (SMSF).

On the topic of SMSFs, Shani also compared the costs of several low-cost SMSF options available to investors.

In her chart of the week, Shani looked at fresh Morningstar data that underlines the popularity of ETFs with investors today.

Shani and Mark's latest episode of the Investing Compass podcast asked whether there is any merit in setting aside some of your portfolio for pure speculation.

Read more of Shani's articles.

Joseph Taylor

Joseph Taylor is an Associate Investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia.

No matter if you're talking about Australian or international equity markets, large-cap stocks look historically expensive compared to shares in smaller companies. Joseph crunched the numbers to weigh up the best way to invest in Aussie small caps.

Joseph's latest Bookworm column tapped Hamilton Helmer's 7 Powers framework to better understand the unlikely rise of a big ASX winner.

In our latest Ask the analyst piece, Joseph put a reader's question about Corporate Travel Management's prospects in a post-Covid world to Brian Han.

If you have a question about any of the stocks or industries in our Australian coverage, please email it to [email protected]. Select questions will be put to the analyst covering the stock and may be published in a future Ask the analyst article.

Read more of Joseph's articles.

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Simonelle Mody is an Associate Investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia.

Many investors would like to help their children appreciate the benefits of investing and get them started on the right path. But what is the best way to go about doing this? Sim looked at how to set your kids up for investing success.

Star has dominated headlines recently amid concerns that it is on the brink of bankruptcy. Sim revealed our Star analyst Angus Hewitt's updated thoughts on the company's financial state here.

Read more of Simonelle's articles.

Mark LaMonica

 

Mark LaMonica, CFA is Director of Personal Finance, Morningstar Australia.

Mark's new column Unconventional wisdom is published every Monday. In this week's edition, Mark discussed three popular investments you won't find in his portfolio

The long-term fate of any share investment is most likely to be influenced by developments in the underlying business. Investors should be wary, then, of potential risks to a company's future ability to generate positive cash flows. Mark looked at a few of them here.

Members of Morningstar's community have plenty of questions of retirement. Mark chose four especially interesting ones and answered them here. He also asked a question of his own: Can you retire on dividends?

Read more of Mark's articles.

More content from Morningstar this week

Firstlinks editor James Gruber asked what the perfect portfolio for the next decade might look like.

James also asked what can be done about the reality that Australia's retirees aren't spending enough. 

Meanwhile, Shaun Ler discussed the fight to buy Insignia and Jon Mills gave his thoughts on BHP amid falling sales volumes.

This week on Investing Compass

In this episode, Mark and Shani ask whether setting aside a part of the portfolio for speculation makes sense

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