The most common question I get from friends about investing is not “What?” but “How?”.
Often, they have heard of advisers and brokers, online platforms, and apps that can invest their spare change, but are confused about where to start.
It’s no surprise – investing has changed a lot in recent years,

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Major global market trends
Reflecting the improving economic outlook, global equities continued to move higher in March, though so too did bond yields. Commodity prices, by contrast, corrected a little, which perhaps reflected a tightening in Chinese credit conditions. Despite the ‘risk-on’ sentiment,

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Last week I read an interesting piece by someone who clearly is not a fan of thematic investing.
He demonstrated the dangers of jumping on the ‘next big thing’, pointing out, for example, the risks faced by early investors in the automobile industry.

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A welcome
The world of investing can be overwhelming to get your head around – plagued by an array of jargon and acronyms, and always changing! For many younger investors, the financial crises of the past two decades may have left a rather bad impression of even the idea of investing,

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One thing that COVID has taught Australians (particularly Victorians) is that the quality of contact tracing is integral to keeping outbreaks to a minimum and ensuring the country can remain open. Time and time again we have heard claims from our politicians of ‘gold standard’ contact tracing,

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Climate change is a global megatrend
Megatrends are powerful forces that can transform the trajectory of the global economy. They can have a meaningful impact not just on how we live and how we spend money, but also on corporate strategies and government policies.

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The BetaShares Legg Mason Real Income Fund (managed fund) (ASX: RINC) has been trading on the ASX since 13 February 2018. RINC employs the same strategy as the unlisted Legg Mason Martin Currie Real Income Fund, which recently celebrated its 10th birthday.

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FEBRUARY 2021: FUND FLOWS REMAIN STRONG AS SHAREMARKETS CONTINUE TO RISE
The month of February saw the U.S. and Australian sharemarkets continue their recent strong form, while ETF industry inflows themselves remained solid.

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Japanification
For almost three decades, from 1991 until only a few years ago, the Japanese stock market severely underperformed other developed markets on the back of a stagnating economy. So much so that the term ‘Japanification’ was coined to reference other developed economies possibly facing the same challenges that plagued the Japanese economy during this time,

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In March 2020, BetaShares launched the first ETF to provide dedicated exposure to Australia’s fast growing technology sector, the BetaShares S&P/ASX Australian Technology ETF (ASX: ATEC), hot on the heels of the launch of the S&P/ASX All Technology Index just two weeks earlier.

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