This Month
How to avoid breaking the budget on a new car
Getting behind the wheel of a new vehicle amid a cost-of-living crisis is tough, but you have options.
- Nina Hendy
Collecting classic cars for fun - and profit
Most cars will depreciate over time, but keen investors know that certain models will always buck that trend.
- Nina Hendy
The most exciting cars of the year… and what’s next
From plug-in hybrids to all-electric, these models from Bentley, Ferrari and Porsche stand out from the crowd.
- Tony Davis
How Lamborghini plans to make EVs sportier
Electric sports cars are just at the beginning of their development and will eventually obliterate lap records with new levels of control and precision.
- Tony Davis
Why it’s time to rediscover unloved assets
Debt markets, overlooked healthcare stocks and small caps are among the opportunities professional investors are betting on for the year ahead.
- Joanna Mather
These assets – including bitcoin – could lead a risk rally
Cryptocurrencies, small-cap stocks and corporate bonds boasting huge yields are all tipped as hot areas for investors prepared to take more risk.
- Tom Richardson
Ignore global assets at your peril
Over-emphasising Australian assets in a portfolio at the expense of global stocks can mean missing out on fast-growing sectors and heightens risk.
- Alexandra Cain
- Opinion
- SMSFs
How I went from Chanticleer to surf, sun and financial security
Retirement planning has wormed its way into the mind of former Chanticleer columnist Tony Boyd, eight months after he swapped full-time work for the ocean and his grandkids.
- Tony Boyd
Is now the time to buy REITs?
With the peak in interest rates in sight, it may be time to consider the listed property trusts again. But be careful which stocks you buy, experts say.
- Larry Schlesinger
What these fundies want to buy in 2024
After the most rapid interest rate hiking cycle in decades, experts agree on one thing: investors need to do their research, more than ever.
- Lucy Dean
- Opinion
- Investing
Goldilocks and the five risks: What to watch in 2024
Investors have emerged from a year of incredible volatility with relatively strong returns. But there are plenty of headwinds to watch out for in the next 12 months.
- James Thomson
November
This fast-growing telco is the most trusted in Australia
Aussie Broadband has overtaken Vocus to become Australia’s fourth-biggest internet provider, and has the highest revenue of any company in the AFR Fast 100 in 2023.
- Christopher Niesche
What this legal team learned from the All Blacks
Organic growth and a raft of acquisitions have helped this professional services firm expand.
- Agnes King
Finance upstarts step in where banks fear to tread
Making it easier to send money back to family overseas was the key driver for the founders of EzyRemit.
- Alexandra Cain
On a mission to drive down EV charging costs
A Melbourne-based EV charging company will use its new charging-as-a-service offering, targeted at corporate fleets, to attract institutional investment.
- Agnes King
- Opinion
- Fast Starters
How to raise capital in a tough funding market
Fast-growing companies need to follow these eight tips when looking to win over investors in a difficult economic environment.
- Xavier Keary
- Opinion
- Fast 100
The category killers that defy any slowdown
Technology innovations can catch on no matter the economic weather, as this year’s lists show.
- Michael Bailey
Tech wreck pessimism no match for AI and Australia’s pet obsession
Mad Paws is struggling to win over ASX investors despite robust growth, while Aussie firms making autonomous vehicles and AI road cameras are thriving.
- Paul Smith
Fintechs among the fastest, but rising rates to dampen the party
The era of fast growth at all costs is over, with rising rates drying up the abundant liquidity that helped spur phase one of these companies’ successes.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Lab-grown food may be the next great investment boom
It is no longer science fiction to envisage a day when half the world’s meat and dairy industry is displaced by food grown in vats.
- Ambrose Evans-Pritchard
