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In this episode, Perpetual Asset Management's Sean Roger and Sage Capital's Sean Fenton share their strategies to tackle markets in 2023.

In a market of headwinds aplenty, where nothing really seems to be working, one momentum trade continues to gain traction... Buying the ASX's most shorted stocks. In...

The Emperor’s New Clothes is a classic children’s story first published in 1837 which espouses several life principles that can be applied to investment markets....

What's the first thing that comes to mind when you hear "shorting"? For me, it's every finance fanatic's favourite film The Big Short. Or, if you twisted my arm, the...

The last 12 months in markets have sure been wild. On average, the top five gainers across the ASX 200 returned a whopping 371.5%. And no to you cynics out there, that...

Phil King is a gold mine of new ideas and they tend to pay off. Regal's listed investment company RF1, which draws on Regal's wholesale funds, has gained 82%...

There has been a lot written about the Gamestop saga in the last week. I want to discuss the medium-term market impacts rather than moralising about who is right and...

The Australian market is uniquely concentrated. The top end of the index is dominated by a few big companies, and that’s supported by a long tail of small positions....

In our inaugural podcast for 2020, I sit down with Peter Stevens, Investment Analyst at Frazis Capital, to discuss the lessons we’ve taken to heart from last year and...

As you likely know, short selling is a trading strategy that involves borrowing and then selling shares in a business, with the aim of buying them back and returning...

On recent trips to the local supermarket you begin to notice that the cost of the shopping appears to be getting a little more expensive. Friends have been talking...

Let’s start by defining what a recession actually is. Google’s dictionary defines it as ‘a period of temporary economic decline during which trading and industrial...

In my last Livewire post, I commented that The Vega Fund would be looking closely at economic data over the coming months to determine whether it should remain long...

Most investors place their bets on share prices rising. There is a lot less focus placed on shorting, the betting that share prices will decline. Shorting is done by...

By now most of the Livewire readers will be aware of the battle between Blue Sky (BLA) and the US short seller, Glaucus. I thought it may be worth penning a wire as I...