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Shani Jayamanne is a Director, Investment Specialist at Morningstar Australia.

Shani’s Future Focus column is published every Wednesday. This week Shani explored the pros, cons and myths attached to ethical or ESG-centric investing. Read Shani’s thoughts in the latest edition of Future Focus here.

In her Chart of the week, Shani looked at what makes the ASX’s only Wide Moat mining name different from the rest.

Shani also weighed up a classic investing quandary - whether it is better to dollar-cost average your way into an investment or deploy all of your cash in one go. Read Shani’s thoughts on this here.

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Joseph Taylor is an Associate Investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia.

Joseph’s Ask the analyst feature puts questions to our equity research team. You can send your questions about ASX companies and industries in our coverage to [email protected] for consideration.

In the latest edition, Joseph caught up with Shaun Ler for an update on Fineos, a software company that Shaun thinks is set to win its niche - albeit at a snail’s pace. Read the article here.

We also revisited Joseph’s previous article that pulled 7 lessons from one of the best stocks in recent history.

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Simonelle Mody is an Associate Investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia.

Sim’s Young & Invested column is published every Thursday. This time, Sim went about finding the best global ETF options for beginner investors seeking exposure to international markets.

Sim also looked at 3 ASX names with exposure to data centres, as well as an ETF that investors seem to have soured on recently.

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Mark LaMonica, CFA is Director of Personal Finance, Morningstar Australia.

Mark’s column Unconventional wisdom is published every Monday. This time, Mark turned his attention to one of his favourite topics: dividends. More specifically, he looked at an old valuation model that he thinks modern-day investors are too quick to dismiss. See Mark’s take on the dividend discount model here.

Sticking with dividends, Mark also asked whether an investor can hope to retire on them. He also explored the idea of boosting income with a covered call strategy.

Read more of Mark’s articles here.

More content from Morningstar this week

Angus Hewitt explained a big hike in his Fair Value estimate for Qantas.

James Gruber looked at how to weigh up shares that have suffered a big price reversal.

Danielle Labotka shared 3 ways to save money when you are tempted to spend.

This week on Investing Compass

Mark and Shani considered how to successfully monitor your portfolio.

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