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Superhero, Robinhood…..Sharesies?

November 30, 2020 by Contributor

The Kiwi counterpart of US online direct investment platform Robinhood is sounding out the Australian market for possible expansion. Brooke Roberts, co-founder of the Wellington-based Sharesies, said the firm was...

If you can’t beat them, buy them

September 25, 2020 by Drew Meredith

While the active versus passive debate rolls on, and on, across the investment world, some active managers have gone to the 'dark side', at least partially, by adding more quantitative...

AMP on Listed Infrastructure

September 24, 2020 by Greg Bright

Notwithstanding the political and superannuation industry talk of an infrastructure-led economic recovery in Australia, and elsewhere, the listed infrastructure sector has been looking decidedly unloved of late. And much of...

ETF Securities: FANGs defy rocky market

May 13, 2020 by Contributor

In hindsight, March 2nd, 2020, as the world started to get to grips with the scale of the global health emergency that was unfolding in the form of the Covid-19...

Talk about an index fund bubble is very passive-aggressive

September 17, 2019 by Contributor

If you’ve seen the movie The Big Short you will remember Christian Bale’s quirky character Michael Burry – the manager of the Scion Capital hedge fund who realises the US mortgage-backed security market is a massive bubble. He goes on to make a fortune by betting on its crash.