Insights

I don't normally write personal anecdotes, but something happened this year that has been over 15 years in the making - my mum invested her hard-earned money. It was a big achievement for myself and my grandfather Grampie.

With its share price up over 400 per cent year to date, Alex Gluyas catches up with the founder and CEO of Redbubble, Martin Hosking to discuss his reappointment to the top job in February, what's behind the company's huge growth this year, and what investors should look out for in the short-term.

Plenty of Australians have seen their working week - and income - cut short as a result of the Coronavirus pandemic. But in true Aussie have-a-go style, around 200,000 of these people have turned the situation around, using it as an opportunity to start their own business.

With Adore Beauty undertaking the ASX’s biggest IPO this year, Alex Gluyas looks into whether the online beauty retailer’s soaring valuation is justified, and if it can replicate the success of the ASX’s other e-commerce stars.

Robert Gottliebsen delves into the government's changes to industry, retail and self-managed super funds while discussing why the banks' failure to invest in systems when they were paying high dividends years ago, will cost earnings growth in the future.

With the compulsory employer superannuation guarantee contribution (SGC) amount paid to employees set to increase next year, Lisa Papachristoforos reviews the positives and negatives of the change.

InvestSMART Capped Fee Portfolio quarterly updates for September.

Compared with the ASX, which is heavily weighted to the fortunes of a handful of financial and mining companies, international equities offer a much broader and exciting range of investment opportunities.

After the Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to two scientists for their work on CRISPR, Steve Sammartino explains the significance of CRISPR's ability to edit DNA and why thoughtful regulation should be used to unleash its potential in a fair way.

Ahead of its listing on the ASX, Alex Gluyas catches up with the CEO of Zebit, Marc Schneider, who explains the company's unique e-commerce platform with a built-in buy-now-pay-later offering, how it's managing the risk of serving credit-challenged customers in the US, and why it's protected from the crowded US buy-now-pay-later space.

Theo Marinis explains why Australia's retirement system is unfair, as its complexity often forces investors to pay considerable fees for expert advice.

Australia's super savings are now worth more than $3 trillion. That's good news, but there are weak spots in the system including over $20 billion in lost and forgotten accounts, and close to four in ten people still have more than one super account.

Following the tax cuts announced in the federal budget, Scott Francis looks at three strategies that can be used to enhance your wealth over the next 10 years.

One of the few upsides of COVID-19 is that Australians are taking a closer look at how they manage their money.

Following the federal government’s announcement last week that responsible lending laws will be rolled back, Alex Gluyas explores the impact it will have on the big banks and the risks the reforms pose to the wider economy.

Sophia Rodrigues explains why the Reserve Bank of Australia is looking at extending bond-buying but why we shouldn't expect the same large-scale purchases seen by other central banks.