Livewire Markets

1 week ago | livewiremarkets.com | Hans Lee

It’s been a wild ride for investors this year, especially if your portfolio has been invested predominantly in equities. With recent market swings far from normal, it’s a good time to revisit one of investing’s golden rules – diversification. And a well-diversified portfolio can only be achieved if you have a strategy that is both well thought-out and well diversified across a range of asset classes.

2 weeks ago | livewiremarkets.com | Hans Lee

In part one of this series, we looked at five rules for building a core portfolio allocation. In this second part, we follow it up with three more rules for building a satellite portfolio allocation with ETFs. By the end of this series, we hope you’ll have a basic understanding of how to build a great portfolio that will both thrive in a range of market scenarios and help you achieve your financial goals. Core exposures are your building blocks.

2 weeks ago | livewiremarkets.com | Rudi Filapek-Vandyck

At face value, investors are treating this year's 'Trump Slump' as your garden variety annual retreat post exuberance-driven all-time highs reached in early 2025. The numbers speak for themselves. When measured from January 1st, the ASX200 is down less than -2%, excluding any dividends paid. European markets are up for the year and so are various Emerging Markets including in Asia. Admittedly, the losses are greater in the US where the Nasdaq, for example, is still down nearly -10% year to date.

2 weeks ago | livewiremarkets.com | Nick Kelly

The emergence of open-ended evergreen funds has allowed more wholesale investors to access alternative asset classes such as private equity, real estate, infrastructure, and private credit. This greater access is a welcome development—after all, institutional investors have been allocating to these strategies for decades. By enabling wholesale investors to gain exposure to these long-term strategies, evergreen funds are playing an important role in the democratisation of alternative assets.

3 weeks ago | livewiremarkets.com | Hans Lee

There’s a saying that goes “if you fail to plan, you plan to fail”. While that proverb applies to everything, it’s particularly true of investing. Over the next two articles, we’ll look at a series of rules and guidelines you can use to help build a brilliant investing foundation. In this article, we focus on the themes that underline a great core portfolio. Rule #1: Work out what you want to gain from your investingIt’s great to say you want to make more money but what do you want to work towards?