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Looking for opportunity in LICs – Livewire Markets

Looking for opportunity in LICs – Livewire Markets

Listed investment companies (LICs) can provide investors with an interesting opportunity; purchasing a portfolio of securities below the intrinsic NTA value. CDM was highlighted as a LIC to watch in the Bell Potter Research article on Livewire Markets titled ‘Looking...

What it means to be a ‘contrarian’ investor

What it means to be a ‘contrarian’ investor

Emotions play a very big role in investing, but so does logic. In finance we often hear people say, “buy low, sell high” or “buy cheap stocks and sell expensive stocks”. You cannot fault the logic. It appeals to common sense, it makes intuitive sense and it should be...

Moving beyond ‘The Lost Decade’

Moving beyond ‘The Lost Decade’

It is fast approaching the eleventh anniversary of the record high for the All Ordinaries Index, the high it set in November 2007 at 6,873. And while the index is within cooee of the old high, it has now been over a decade in which the market has failed to set a new...