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How to invest

How much wealth could I build by investing $500 a month into ASX shares?

| Grace Alvino

Building wealth isn’t about starting big. It’s about showing up consistently and letting time do the work.

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Share Market News

Buying ASX 200 shares? Here's what the latest spending report means for interest rates in 2026

| Bernd Struben

The ASX 200 dropped 0.3% following the release of the consumer spending report. But why?

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Dividend Investing

Building wealth: Here's why I prefer ASX share buybacks to dividends

| Sebastian Bowen

Buybacks can boost your wealth more than you know.

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Defensive Shares

3 ASX 200 shares I'd trust if I couldn't check my portfolio for a year

| Grace Alvino

If I had to step away from my portfolio for a year, I’d focus on businesses with predictable demand and…

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Investing Strategies

How I'd invest $50,000 across ASX shares today

| Grace Alvino

If I had $50,000 to invest today, I wouldn’t overcomplicate it. I’d focus on quality and patience.

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Personal Finance

Don't want to rely on your wage? Build a second income with these ASX shares

| Tristan Harrison

Aussies can improve financial security by using ASX shares to generate passive income.

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Investing Strategies

Here are my top 10 ASX stocks for 2026

| Grace Alvino

For 2026, I’m focused on ASX stocks with strong fundamentals, proven management, and the ability to compound through volatility.

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ETFs

This is how I would build a sound ETF portfolio from scratch

| Marc Van Dinther

Aim for broad market exposure, keep it simple and minimize costs.

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Recent sharemarket News

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ASX falls almost 2%

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The market has a bout of the blues - but we're not going to take it

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3 ASX stocks that beat the falling market on Friday

| Mike King

The market might have fallen, but that doesn't mean there aren't winners

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The greatest challenge for today's nervous investors

| Motley Fool Staff

The market is off to a sluggish start - time to look through the doom and buy?

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Foolish Preview: Berkshire, banks and a budget

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Our market likely to open lower this morning after US markets fell on Friday

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What your kids desperately need to know about investing

| Motley Fool Staff

Financial education is vital to your children's future

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In a weird world where shareholders don't matter

| Motley Fool Staff

Why aren't boards listening to the owners of the company?

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Keep one step ahead of the investing crowd

| Motley Fool Staff

How to go the extra mile in doing real company research

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Bringing you Buffett's 'Woodstock for Capitalists'

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Even if you don’t invest the way Buffett does, why not learn more from one of the best?

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Why 'sell in May' will lead you astray

| Motley Fool Staff

Why following the accepted wisdom might be bad for your wealth

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Will your stocks survive until 2020?

| Motley Fool Staff

Today's profit matters, but nowhere near as much as the long-term success of the business

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Hitting a defenceless Fool when he's up 7 per cent

| Bruce Jackson

Harvey Norman (ASX: HVN) continues to struggle, yet the shares are up 7% in the last few weeks. A value…

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ARB Corp: Tough times, but positioning for growth

| Mike King

ARB's growth has hit the wall, but they are hoping it's just a blip on the path of this long-term…

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5 ASX stocks that fell more than 5 per cent yesterday

| Mike King

The market might have been flat, but these stocks took it on the chin.

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Buffett fans roll up to 'Woodstock for Capitalists', including me

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Scott Phillips heads for Omaha and a 6 hour investing masterclass with Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger

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ASX to follow the Dow lower as investors fret about the unknown

| Bruce Jackson

Just when you thought it was safe to pile back into shares, along comes "the unknown" to spoil the party

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The dogs of the Dow are in the doghouse

| Motley Fool Staff

Are these stocks ready to bounce back?

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ASX Thursday close: Much ado about nothing

| Bruce Jackson

The excitement of the RBA's interest rate is already a distant memory. ASX market's close flat on Thursday on a…

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'Booze barometer' confirms RBA's decision to cut rates

| Bruce Jackson

We're drinking less, but likely because we can't afford a tipple rather than some collective health kick.

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The devastatingly simple way to play the interest rate cut

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The Reserve Bank of Australia shocked most observers this week, dropping interest rates by half of one per cent. With…

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Foolish Preview: Flat start, and how to respond to the rate cut

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Soft US and EU employment numbers - and Westpac profit stalls

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Fact: Apple got cheaper last week

| Motley Fool Staff

Can share price increases make a company less expensive?

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ASX Market Wrap: ASX up – just – and again underperforms the Dow

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Rates, rates, rates... plus the biggest winners and losers

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⏸️ Best ASX Shares

Freedom Nutritional: Stock jumps 138% in a year, an attractive investing proposition

| Mike King

With its range of health conscious products, Freedom could also be a healthy investing proposition.

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3 ASX stocks that performed the best yesterday

| Mike King

The sharemarket is on the up, but these ASX 200 shares did even better.

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Foolish roundtable: Interest rates, Olympics and optimism

| Motley Fool Staff

ASX shares are up 8% in 2012. Optimism is returning to the market. Could this rally have further to go?

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What the RBA's interest rate cut means for ASX investors

| Bruce Jackson

The rules of investing never change -- buy good companies at cheap prices.

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Foolish Preview: The Dow hits new highs, good news for the ASX

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

With the Dow Jones finally recovering the highs of 2007, our market looks likely to open up this morning

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Why we might be wrong about Bernie Madoff

| Motley Fool Staff

It wasn't greed that motivated Bernie Madoff. It was something far more dangerous.

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ASX shares up, interest rates slashed, and a few more tricks to this pony

| Bruce Jackson

The RBA finally admitted it was wrong on interest rates. Let the race for dividend yields begin...

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Wotif: Shares slump on lower profit guidance

| Mike King

Wotif becomes the latest victim of the slowing economy

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ASX gold stocks are getting hammered

| Mike King

Are falling share prices a bet on a lower gold price?

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DuluxGroup: Offers to takeover Alesco for $188m

| Mike King

DuluxGroup is on the acquisition trail, buying struggling Alesco for $188m. It looks like a good deal.

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Foolish Preview: ASX likely to open lower, and rates decision day

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

The US markets were soft overnight, and the RBA makes its rates decision this afternoon

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3 steps to pick winning growth shares

| Motley Fool Staff

Growth is vital... but sorting the wheat from the chaff is the path to success

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ASX Market Wrap: Few losers as the market gallops ahead

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

Winners were grinners (with a few exceptions) with the ASX up 0.8%

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4 ASX stocks that jumped over 15 per cent last week

| Mike King

Even in a flat market, there were some strong winners

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Foolish Preview: Market to jump as Dow and ASX futures close higher

| Scott Phillips (TMFGilla)

A positive lead from Wall Street, reflected in the ASX futures, should be good news for the ASX

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How to invest like Warren Buffett

| Motley Fool Staff

The Oracle of Omaha isn't the world's third richest man for nothing. How does he do it?

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Is Facebook the next rule breaker?

| Motley Fool Staff

The all-conquering social network will IPO next month - and may not be as overvalued as some believe

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Amazon.com's next step towards world domination

| Motley Fool Staff

Still conquering the online retail world, Amazon has opened up a new front

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