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When Archimedes had that famous bath and watched the water rise, he didn't just solve a problem - he had one of history's great moments of innovation. A completely new way of seeing something that had always been there. Investors are on a similar hunt. Figuring out the pure gold in the market, the companies that are genuinely reimagining their industries, the true innovators that have the potential to become the market leaders of tomorrow.  The trouble is, telling real innovation from a good story is hard at the best of times. And right now, with small and mid-caps taking a beating since the onset of the war in Iran, the market is anything but straightforward. Do you chase macro tailwinds? Hunt for quality growth names that have been unfairly sold off? Or play it safe and wait for the dust to settle? To help work through those questions and to find where the genuine "eureka!" moments might be, Anna Dadic is joined by Lucas Goode from IML and Ben Rundle from Hayborough Investment Partners to run the ruler over some stocks and share one high conviction pick for the year ahead. Let's go find some gold!  This episode was filmed Wednesday 22nd April, 2026. 

In the first two episodes of this commodities-focused Buy Hold Sell series, we zeroed in on the obvious plays – gold, and oil and gas – the parts of the market dominating headlines and investor attention. But as is often the case in commodities, the real opportunity set runs much deeper. Lithium has staged a sharp comeback, tin and manganese prices have surged over the past year, and key industrial metals like copper and even iron ore continue to trade at elevated levels. So in this episode, we flipped the format. Rather than focus on a single commodity, we asked our guests – Rick Squire from Acorn Capital and Emanuel Datt from Datt Capital – to each bring three of their highest-conviction commodity stock ideas. No themes, no hypotheticals – just six big buys and the reasoning behind them, from two of the country’s most respected resource investors. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, 8th April 2026.

The world is meant to be moving away from oil and gas, yet we are consuming more of it than ever. Global oil demand is now running at more than 102 million barrels per day, above pre-pandemic levels, and expected to continue growing according to the International Energy Agency. At the same time, oil and gas still account for roughly 55% of global energy consumption, underscoring just how far the transition still has to run. That’s not to say the shift isn’t happening. Renewables now generate close to 30% of global electricity, and clean energy investment has surged past US$2 trillion annually, well ahead of fossil fuels. But here’s the catch: existing oil fields decline at around 5–7% per year, meaning fresh supply is constantly needed just to stand still. Recent events have made that juxtaposition impossible to ignore - just ask anyone who has filled up their car at $2.50+ per litre in recent weeks. The conflict in the Middle East has provided a sharp reminder that, for all the progress, the global economy remains deeply reliant on hydrocarbons. Australia remains one of the world’s largest LNG exporters and is home to globally competitive oil and gas producers across the market cap spectrum. In this episode, Acorn Capital’s Rick Squire and Datt Capital’s Emanuel Datt discuss the energy market and run the ruler over four ASX oil and gas stocks. This episode was recorded on Wednesday, 8th April 2026.

Gold has had a remarkable 12 months.  From the low in May-June last year, around US$ 3,500 an ounce, to the high of the January 2026 spike, around US$5,400 an ounce, the precious metals rallied almost 70%.  It was during this period that lines formed in Martin Place outside ABC Bullion.  Then, gold got the wobbles - particularly as war broke out in the Middle East. Whilst it didn't fall in a straight line, the precious metal fell from US$5,400 to a low of US$3,800 by late March - a 20% wipeout.  With a tentative ceasefire in place and normal programming (i.e. US dollar weakness, inflation expectations easing, lower rates) potentially resuming, gold could be experiencing a reboot, where investors pile back in at a significant discount to where we were just a couple of months ago.  Regardless of what the gold price does, there are a handful of ASX-listed miners that should be able to generate significant cash flow given their low costs, operational efficiency, and healthy margins.  In this episode, Acorn Capital's Rick Squire and Datt Capital's Emanuel Datt run the ruler over four such names for your consideration.  This episode was filmed on Wednesday, 8th April 2026.   

Sometimes, you get tired of the chicken parmy and start looking for a truffle pasta instead - you know that feeling? While there are plenty of advantages to investing on home turf, and many Australians do exactly that, for investors chasing genuine long-term growth, the local menu can feel increasingly narrow.  With the ASX still heavily anchored to ex-growth banks and miners, and a tech sector that has been hit hard by the AI shake-up, the case for looking offshore in search of growth opportunities has perhaps never felt stronger.  In this episode of Buy Hold Sell, we put five global growth stocks in the spotlight, spanning big tech, semiconductors, e-commerce, aerospace and streaming. Livewire’s Tom Stelzer is joined by Vihari Ross from Antipodes and Casey McLean from Magellan Investment Partners for a look at the big global growth names - some household names, some less familiar - worth watching now. This episode was filmed Wednesday 11th March 2026. 

AI, energy, infrastructure and defence might look like separate mega trends, but like a giant flywheel, they’re increasingly feeding into one another, creating a feedback loop that is reshaping industries, investment opportunities and the global economy. The AI boom isn’t just driving demand for semiconductors and cloud computing, it's also triggering a surge in electricity demand, forcing utilities and governments to invest heavily in power generation and grid infrastructure. On top of that, war and rising geopolitical tensions is driving a structural increase in defence spending, with technology, semiconductors and strategic infrastructure playing a bigger role in modern defence systems. In markets, this means that the biggest opportunities can often sit not in a single theme, but in the spaces where these trends overlap each other. In this episode of Buy Hold Sell, we ask Vihari Ross of Antipodes and Casey McLean of Magellan where they see the best value across the biggest trends shaping markets today and which megatrend could drive the next wave of opportunity.

The Magnificent 7 are starting to look a bit like a boy band past its peak. (Think the Beatles, NSYNC, BTS...pick your era.) At their height, the hype is intoxicating. The name up in lights, the style, the choreography of the market moving to their beat. For a while, everyone agrees -  they’re untouchable. But nothing stays loved in the limelight forever, and sentiment can turn quickly. Doubts around AI leadership and an overcrowded trade have made investors pause on tech, while sectors like energy, materials and industrials have started outperforming. And when the gloss fades, as we saw in the pullback earlier this year, the next question that naturally gets asked is - what else is out there? Well friends, here at Livewire, we’re here to tell you - quite a lot! In this episode, we’re casting our eyes past the Magnificent 7 and instead focusing on the global megacaps that have been stuck in the Mag 7's shadow.  And we’ve brought in two of the best in global equities - Vihari Ross of Antipodes, and Casey McLean of Magellan - to talk through the other members of the trillion-dollar club (and the ones knocking on the door.)  This epsiode was filmed Wednesday 11th March, 2026.

There are two things you want out of a good income stock - a solid yield and the ability to grow that yield over time.  In this episode of Buy Hold Sell, Livewire's Chris Conway hosts Peter Gardner from Plato Asset Management and Sean Roger from Perpetual to run the ruler over five dividend stocks with better-than-market yields and expected dividend growth. We ran a screen that filtered companies with a market cap above $1 billion, offering a one-year forward yield of more than 4% (better than the market) and projected dividend growth based on consensus earnings forecasts. The screen threw up some interesting names across consumer discretionary, financial services and transport, but are these stocks worth adding to your watchlist, according to the pros? Find out here. 

The yield on the ASX has now been below 4% for quite some time, but that doesn't mean there's no income opportunities for Australian investors ready to do the work. In this episode of Buy Hold Sell, Livewire's Chris Conway hosts Peter Gardner from Plato Asset Management and Sean Roger from Perpetual to discuss whether we're in a structurally-lower income environment or whether it's just a lull. They also reveal the sectors where they're still finding reliable income and what they're avoiding right now. Finally they each share one ASX income stock idea the rest of the market might be missing for 2026. 

Strong dividends have always been one of the ASX's big calling cards, so it might surprise you to learn that Australian dividends actually shrank 6.7% to $63.5 billion in 2025, according to the Capital Group Global Equity Study. Now reporting season has thrown up some solid dividend results from Telstra, Woolworths, BHP and Evolution Mining to name a few, and our biggest income stocks - namely the banks and miners - are delivering strong returns. So will 2026 be a return to form for Aussie income stocks, and which are the companies that should be top of your radar? In this episode of Buy Hold Sell, Peter Gardner from Plato Asset Management and Sean Roger from Perpetual join Livewire's Chris Conway to give their ratings on some of the most-tipped income stocks for 2026 from our readers and share a pick of their own.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. That might be the best way to sum up the February reporting season at the headline level. Of course, there is more nuance to it than that.  The top end of town - the banks and miners in particular - enjoyed solid results and, often, spectacular share price moves; Woolworths up 14%, anyone? Throw into the mix a record high for BHP and a resurgent Commonwealth Bank, as the strong got stronger - 'twas the best of times. At the other end of the spectrum, if you disappointed the market - even by a smidge in the case of a company like ZIP - you got hammered. This is not a new theme, given recent season history, but certainly a more pronounced one. 'Twas the worst of times.  If that wasn't enough to navigate, casting a pall over the entire season was the chaos agent that is change. More specifically, AI-disruption, which apparently is threatening most small and mid-cap business models, while the top 20 are somehow immune.  To help unpack one of the most colourful and important reporting seasons in the last decade, guest host, CommSec's James Gruber, was joined by David Lloyd from Ausbil Investment Management, and Dushko Bajic from First Sentier Investors.  They discuss the big themes, key takeouts and, of course, all the big stocks - from the winners to the losers, and everything in between. If you're an investor in ASX stocks, you cannot miss this episode of Buy Hold Sell.  This episode was recorded on Thursday, 26 February 2026.   

As part of our 2026 Outlook Series, we asked you for your picks of the top ETFs for the year ahead, and in a recent episode of Buy Hold Sell, we ran the ruler over five of the most-picked ETFs. But we like to keep our guests on their toes, which is why we're back with a bonus round of Buy Hold Sell to run through nine more of the ETFs that made the list.  Back in the BHS hot seats are Daniel Kelly of Viola Private Wealth and Adam Dawes of Shaw and Partners to give the quick fire calls on ETFs covering everything from gold miners to Asian tech. 2 guests. 9 ETFs. 4 minutes. Hear how they got on.  This episode was filmed on Wednesday, 11 February 2026.  

AI. It's all anyone is talking about, and whether you love it or loathe it, you're probably going to have to hear about it for a while yet (i.e. forever). But whether you choose to invest in it? That's another story.  Let's be real. Investors of all stripes - from retail punters to institutional shops with trillion-dollar balance sheets - have lost their minds over AI. Yes, there will be winners. But there will also be body bags. That’s how every tech revolution works. So what is the play? Do you ram as much AI into your portfolio as you can and back the builders of the future? Or do you position in themes tied to timeless human needs like eating, building and moving? In this episode, Daniel Kelly from Viola Private Wealth and Adam Dawes from Shaw and Partners run the ruler over three ETFs offering direct AI exposure and three designed to be resilient, whether the robots deliver or disappoint.   This episode was filmed on Wednesday, 11 February 2026.

With so much choice on the ASX for building an ETF portfolio, the challenge is in construction. How do you combine ETFs in a way that makes sense for where you are in your investing journey? And how should that mix evolve as your knowledge, confidence and capital grows? In this episode, Tom Stelzer is joined by Daniel Kelly of Viola Private Wealth and Adam Dawes of Shaw and Partners to build three ETF portfolios from the ground up: one for beginners, one for intermediate investors and one for those ready to step into more advanced territory. Starting with low-cost, broad-market exposure ETF options, our panel explores how investors can begin layering in more targeted sector and thematic exposures as their portfolios mature, before heading into sophisticated territory, unpacking geared strategies and listed alternatives, where risk, correlation and portfolio construction become even more critical.  This episode was filmed Wednesday 11th February 2026.

ETFs have become the building blocks of modern portfolios, offering instant diversification, liquidity and low-cost access to everything from global blue chips to niche thematics. But with a veritable supermarket of options now available on the ASX, choosing the right ETF is no easy task. In this episode, Livewire’s Tom Stelzer is joined by Daniel Kelly of Viola Private Wealth and Adam Dawes of Shaw and Partners to give us their verdicts on some of the ETFs most tipped by Livewire readers for 2026. We cover ETFs from global quality and cybersecurity, to Australian high yield, copper miners and the world’s largest listed companies. As always, each guest also brings one ETF idea of their own for the year ahead offering two very different ways to position for 2026 - one taking advantage of the beaten-down ASX tech sector and another set to benefit from a geopolitically charged environment.    This episode was filmed Wednesday 11th Febraury 2026