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Want to invest better this year? Start here

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Slow and steady - and keep it simple.

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Berkshire without Buffett? It starts now.

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

For the first time in 60 years, the Oracle isn't in charge.

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Best Shares

Best and worst performing ASX 200 sectors of 2025

| Bronwyn Allen

The best performing sector delivered quadruple the gains of the broader ASX 200.

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Share Market News

Is the share market going to crash in 2026? Here's what I plan to do

| Grace Alvino

Everyone’s talking about a 2026 crash. Here’s why I’m staying calm, staying invested, and sticking to my plan.

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Investing Strategies

My top 5 ASX 200 shares I would buy with $10,000

| Grace Alvino

$10,000. Five ASX 200 shares. Here’s where I’d invest today to stack the odds in my favour for long-term returns.

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Lessons from a 4-day long weekend

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Get your adrenaline shot somewhere else.

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Growth Shares

The best Australian stocks to buy in 2026

| James Mickleboro

Analysts are feeling bullish about these stocks for next year.

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Personal Finance

With no savings at 50, I'd follow Warren Buffett's method to build wealth

| Tristan Harrison

Warren Buffett has a number of useful lessons.

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David Jones Limited: We knew it was bad, but not this bad

| Bruce Jackson

David Jones Limited has reported like for like sales have slumped 11 per cent. We've long been warning about the…

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The rowboat syndrome trap that could cost you thousands

| Bruce Jackson

ASX shares keep falling, but instead of worrying, The Motley Fool is optimistically focusing on a plethora of investing opportunities,…

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

Kicking the tyres on super-cheap Automotive Holdings

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Automotive Holdings current valuation isn't demanding, and it trades on an attractive fully franked dividend yield of 8.7 per cent.…

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

Newsat Limited issued with ASX speeding ticket

| Motley Fool Staff

If high-flying Newsat truly is going to transform itself into a major international provider of satellite communications, there will be…

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3 ways to lower your sharemarket investing risk

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

You can never eliminate risk in investing. The best we can do is plan for those risks we can reasonably…

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⏸️ How to Invest

Remain diversified while concentrating on your top stock ideas

| Mark Tobin

An increasingly popular strategy is the core and satellite approach to portfolio construction. The bulk of your portfolio, say 80%,…

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Using the price earnings ratio to pick ASX winners and losers

| Peter Phan

When it comes to sharemarket investing, one size never fits all. If investing was as easy as looking at a…

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6 steps to becoming a master investor

| Motley Fool Staff

Regardless of which field you want to master, these six building blocks are the key. We combine these six keys…

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This mistake could cost you big money

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Every investor should aim to take the emotion out of our investment decisions. Problem is, it's easier said than done.…

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1 Dividend Stock to Buy in November

| Motley Fool Staff

Dividend investing in today's market. Today, we can buy an excellent operator that's trading at historically low multiples on book…

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Driverless trucks to drive Rio Tinto's profits

| Motley Fool Staff

Rio Tinto accelerates the rollout of its mine of the future.

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Winners are grinners, foiled by a Greek tragedy

| Bruce Jackson

Just when you thought sharemarket volatility had subsided, the Greek tragedy rears its ugly head, again. Time to hold onto…

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Greece is the word, sending sharemarkets tumbling, again

| Motley Fool Staff

U.S. stocks have slumped to their biggest two-day fall in a month as fears of more problems in Europe gripped…

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Tatts and Tabcorp: Worth a punt?

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

With the race that stops the nation now run and won, bookmakers and the lucky few punters who picked the…

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Bet on the Cup, invest in the sharemarket

| Bruce Jackson

Two gambling rules for the Cup, and three keys to long-term investing success

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Did Facebook's $100 billion dream just die?

| Motley Fool Staff

Once thought to be worth $100 billion or more, new data says Facebook is trading for an implied value of…

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The Melbourne Cup of investing

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

I don’t make my living picking the winners of horse races, but the Spring Carnival and its showpiece event on…

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3 ways to beat volatile sharemarkets

| Motley Fool Staff

These simple steps can smooth your investing returns

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

BHP Billiton: Priced for the apocalypse

| Motley Fool Staff

BHP Billiton's share price is down over 25 per cent from its 52-week high. Rather than being fearful, potential investors…

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4 gotta-have U.S. stocks finally cheap enough to buy

| Motley Fool Staff

With world sharemarkets having a hissy-fit, four top quality U.S. shares and one little-known ASX company are available on the…

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

3 stocks to profit from the coming sharemarket rally

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Investors buying shares at today's prices potentially stand to benefit twice. Firstly, from rising profits, and secondly, from a removal…

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Is the iPad 3 already on its way

| Motley Fool Staff

The iPad 3 is rumoured to be entering production ahead of next year's launch

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⏸️ How to Invest

So you want to invest in ASX shares

| Motley Fool Staff

Keen to make a fortune betting on ASX shares? Before diving in, find out about the basic principles that have…

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The easy way to make $200,000

| Motley Fool Staff

Money you save on charges over the course of your investing life could make a massive difference to your nest…

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Rich Aussies have nothing to complain about

| Bruce Jackson

Sharemarkets fall back, dragged lower by Europe. But why worry? We're rich, employed and can earn a decent return on…

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Opportunity lying in plain sight

| Motley Fool Staff

Jeremy Gratham's many past investment predictions have been uncannily correct. This time around, he's predicting U.S. blue chip stocks will…

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BHP's big $30 billion hole

| Motley Fool Staff

BHP Billiton look to spend $20 billion to $30 billion on expanding the massive Olympic Dam mine in South Australia.

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4 wealth-building strategies for an early retirement

| Motley Fool Staff

Retiring early needn't be a forlorn hope. Here are 4 simple ways you can happily sail off into the sunset

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"This market is going to fly"

| Bruce Jackson

Should we expect the mother of all sharemarket rallies? It's the $64,000 question. We wish we knew. But, if investing…

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Foolish thought of the day – Weds 12th Oct 2011

| Bruce Jackson

Is that a sense of relative calm we can sense on world sharemarkets? Not if the Slovakians have anything to…

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Shares a better investment than property

| Bruce Jackson

Buying an investment property now could be your worst investing decision, ever.

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3 investing lessons from Steve Jobs

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The life of Steve Jobs has lessons for technologists and leaders. There are also some key lessons to be learned…

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Shares party like it's March 2009

| Bruce Jackson

From its bottom in March 2009, the S&P/ASX 200 index surged 45% higher in the following 7 months. Are sharemarkets…

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Give your under-performing shares the sack

| Peter Phan

Use the market sell-off to upgrade the quality of your ASX share portfolio

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We lose a visionary and set-out a clear investing vision

| Bruce Jackson

The simple secret to investing and why so few people can do. Shares are truly cheap when chaos, panic and…

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A sharemarket on sale & 2 things every investor must know

| Bruce Jackson

World sharemarkets continue their long, sharp decline. Yet whilst all about panic, we Fools calmly look to buy ASX shares…

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ASX shares on sale: Time to get excited

| Dean Morel

A recent front page feature in The Australian Financial Review said ‘Now it’s getting scary’. With the S&P/ASX 200 down…

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The gold bubble in pictures

| Motley Fool Staff

As gold continues to deflate, these simple charts show how gold was likely a bubble.

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Dividends: The great wealth creator

| Peter Phan

A portfolio of these 5 shares provides a trailing grossed up dividend yield of 10.4% per annum. This is better…

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⏸️ Lessons From Investing Greats

How Peter Lynch destroyed the market

| Motley Fool Staff

Peter Lynch didn't just beat the Street ... he absolutely destroyed it. Lynch ran Fidelity's Magellan Fund from 1977 to…

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