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Beginner Friendly but not Foolproof: How to Avoid the 5 Most Common ETF Mistakes

ETFs have grown in popularity in the last decade, and beginner investors are often encouraged to consider them. But beginner doesn’t mean foolproof and even investments like ETFs can go wrong when investors don’t know what they are really buying and how best to use them. It’s also worth noting that beginner doesn’t mean that ETFs can’t be part of more sophisticated strategies either.

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25 June 2026

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MercadoLibre (MELI) - Amazon in the Amazon

MercadoLibre (NASDAQ: MELI) is the leading e-commerce and fintech ecosystem company in Latin America, co-founded in a Buenos Aires garage during the dotcom boom by Marcos Galperin, who remains Chairman and CEO to this day. The company began life as an online auction marketplace inspired by eBay and has since evolved to encompass a broad range of services including third- and first-party sales, logistics, advertising, and fintech.

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 · Daniel Wu
 · 25 MIN READ

Budget 2025: What Investors Need to Know

With an election looming, the Albanese Government’s 2025 Budget lands exactly where you’d expect: safe, strategic, and politically calibrated. It’s packed with handouts designed to ease household cost pressures, including tax cuts starting from 2026–27, student debt relief, and housing assistance. The Budget extends support measures—but at a price. It returns to a deficit with a $27.6 billion shortfall this year and $42.1 billion projected for 2025–26. As a result, gross debt is set to climb to $1.22 trillion by 2028–29, up $283 billion from current levels.

3 Apr 2025
 · 6 MIN READ

Sports Investing: A Rising Global Opportunity

The world of professional sports is undergoing a seismic shift, presenting unprecedented opportunities for investors. Previously the exclusive domain of billionaires, sports franchises have emerged as a unique and rapidly growing asset class, driven by robust business models, increasing media rights valuations, and the global appeal of sports as entertainment.

31 Mar 2025
 · Sara Perl
 · 6 MIN READ

Time to Diversify: Multi-Asset Investing is Ready to Shine

The concept of diversification has long been foundational to most investment strategies. However, the rise of the Magnificent 7 in recent years seemed to disprove its benefits to large swathes of the global investment community. As a result, millions of investors have been ‘all-in’ on the same trade. That was then and this is now. The world has changed in profound ways since Trump’s inauguration, and markets have been reminded of the benefits of diversification. The stage is surely set for a resurgence in multi-asset investing…

26 Mar 2025
 · 5 MIN READ

Alternatives No Longer Living Up to their Name

Alternative investments have done what alternative music did in the 90s: become so mainstream that their name doesn’t apply any more. They are no longer reserved for institutional investors and the wealthiest of the wealthy. Alternatives have become a staple component of most high net worth individuals’ portfolios, and are increasingly showing up in mass market portfolios. We investigate the sector’s growth drivers for a steer as to what’s coming…

24 Mar 2025
 · 5 MIN READ

Making sense of the banking sector

The banking sector enjoyed an extraordinary rally in 2024, with the Big Four Banks delivering an average TSR of 33%. As recently as February, Commonwealth Bank (CBA), for instance, enjoyed a price to earnings multiple of 26x- a 60% premium to its historical average. This raises an important question: are these valuations justified for a sector that has not grown its overall earnings per share over the last 10 years?

24 Mar 2025
 · 7 MIN READ

The Hidden Biases holding your portfolio back

Investing is often seen as a game of numbers, charts, and cold, hard logic. Except, in practice, that’s not how it works for most investors. More often than not, investment decisions are driven by emotions, biases, and mental shortcuts. As Benjamin Graham puts it: ‘The investor’s chief problem—and even his worst enemy—is likely to be himself.’

20 Mar 2025
 · 6 MIN READ