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Putin’s war, aside from creating one of the largest humanitarian crises in recent decades, has highlighted the need for Europe to wean itself off Russian oil and gas and accelerate the continent’s transition to renewable energies.
In this article I’ll explore Europe’s dependence on Russian fossil fuels,

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Commodity markets including metals and energy sectors have been on a wild ride over the last 18 months. A synchronised global lockdown in the first quarter of 2020 hit global commodity markets hard and led to WTI oil future prices trading below zero for the first time in history (which we wrote about previously here).

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The US$5 trillion global food and agribusiness industry has a massive economic, social, and environmental footprint, representing 10% of global consumer spending and 40% of employment¹.
As the global population explodes, and along with it, the requirements and demands of sustainable food production,

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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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As we enter the second half of 2020, it’s clear that the steady sharemarket rise of the last 10 years has ended, and we are in a new time of volatility and uncertainty. Following the historic market sell-off in Q1 and subsequent recovery in Q2,

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Over the last decade, technology has been one of the best-performing sectors of the global economy, significantly outperforming major global indices, including during the most recent March downturn. The rise of technology has been driven by the shift in the way consumers operate in their daily lives,

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