Andrew Lockhart from Metrics Credit Partners provides an insight into the domestic credit market. It’s part of the financial system usually reserved for the ‘big banks’ who provide credit to large corporates looking to invest and expand their businesses. While credit is available it seems appetite for growth remains patchy. Show More

CommSec Chief Economist Craig James takes a look at the economic events scheduled for the week ahead, including the CommSec State of the States report, Australian inflation, US GDP growth and the US Federal Reserve rates meeting. https://youtu.be/Zz08OtD3qO4 Show More

One of the strongest and most predictable relationships in global equity markets over the last few years is that of bond yields and so-called ‘bond proxies’. As the name suggests, a bond proxy is a stock that is held in place of fixed interest securities, primarily for yield. They are... Show More

The shares have had a great run over the last few years but we can see some danger signs up here. Firstly, since peaking in June, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare (FPH) has been sold down fairly quickly (circled). The volume has also been fairly large on the way down. This... Show More

Mining services company Macmahon has been in the wars for most of the past decade. As the largest holding in Forager's Australian Shares Fund, we are anticipating the next decade being better. In this video we discuss our recent trip to Indonesia, new contract wins and the importance of Macmahon's... Show More

After 20 years of little to report, resources group Jervois is re-invigorated with a new board led by well-regarded banker Steve van der Sluys. With interests in nickel, cobalt, scandium and gold, the stock is moving. And Breaker’s gold discovery is starting to catch the eye of cashed-up producers. Show More

Companies that change the way we do business can offer great opportunities as they establish and monetise new marketplaces. So in this week’s Buy Hold Sell we review 3 stocks leveraging this theme, as well as a microcap taking on Tatts and TAB, and a stock enjoying the NBN as... Show More

In June, Costco Wholesale (COST.US) fell more than 15% in reaction to the news Amazon.com (AMZN.US) is acquiring Whole Foods Market (WFM.US). We think Costco’s competitive advantage is durable and thus initiated a position. Show More

CommSec's Tom Piotrowski speaks with Oventus Medical (OVN) Clinical Director & Co-Founder, Dr Chris Hart about: Show More

A recent addition to the portfolio, Australian dairy and foods business, Bega Cheese, was the largest single contributor to performance of the portfolio for the month of June. Over the past 6 months, Bega has seen transformational change in its business through the completion of three major transactions: Show More

Redhill Education provides specialist higher education to domestic and international students at campuses in Sydney and Melbourne. Show More

Howard Marks, Co-Founder of Oaktree Capital, criticised forecasters in a memo earlier this year, writing: “There are no facts about the future, just opinions”. And few asset classes are harder to forecast than currencies. Show More

Hamish Douglass, CEO, CIO and Lead Portfolio Manager (Global), discusses why rising tech stocks are still well priced, the strategy driving Amazon’s purchase of Whole Foods and what this means for other retailers. Show More

Independent Investment Research has initiated coverage of BKI Investments, one of the older style LICs that invests in a portfolio of Australian equities. It has an all market cap mandate although is heavily weighted to the ASX 50. Up until 2016, BKI was internally managed but is now managed by... Show More

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Following on from the popular post on the seasonal turning point for the VIX last week, here's an insight into seasonality for the S&P500. The chart shows 2017 superimposed on the historical average price movement across the year, and it looks like a fairly decent fit, with the implication being... Show More

Good morning, foreign bourses were all stronger with Shanghai leading by putting in a rise of 1.4%, Japan was more modest with a rise of just 0.1%. Bond yields are slightly higher with the US yield curve flattening slightly from the long end, the 2/10 spread is now 91 points... Show More

Western Australia is one of the handful of jurisdictions globally that hosts salt lakes with brine chemistry suitable to produce the high value sulphate of potash fertiliser (commonly referred to as SoP) – current producers are in China, Tibet, the US and India. SoP has several advantages over the more... Show More

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If you are unable to attend the sold-out ‘Livewire Live 2017’ event next week, you will be pleased to hear that, for the first time you will now be able to watch it all via our ‘Digital Pass’. You will see the keynote speech from Hamish Douglass, the 2 panel... Show More

Economy-wide spending continued to post firm growth in June with all states and territories recording gains as well as all but one industry sector. The Commonwealth Bank Business Sales Indicator (BSI) rose by 0.7 per cent in trend terms in June after a similar gain in May. Show More

APRA have finally come out with their capital rules to fulfil the ‘unquestionably strong’ requirement of the Financial Services Inquiry. The focus is on is the Common Equity Tier 1 ratio requirement (CET1), which is the amount of equity the banks need to hold relative to risk weighted assets (loans).... Show More