When Merlon was established in 2010 and we first formally reviewed Telstra, the stock was trading at $2.64. The top down (and perhaps consensus) view at that time was that the company faced enormous structural challenges stemming from the ongoing decline in fixed line voice services, intense competition in mobile... Show More

a2 Milk entirely side-stepped the carnage faced by other market darlings over the last 12 months to gain more than 282% in this timeframe, and a remarkable 1,115% since listing in 2015. In this exclusive interview, Jonathan Koh from Greencape Capital outlines the additional tailwinds the market has missed with... Show More

With the flow of new interest-only lending limited to 30% of the total, some existing borrowers may be about to discover that they are unable to roll over their interest-only loans, and they will be forced to start repaying principal. Show More

In honour of the forthcoming Melbourne Cup, let’s start with a quick trivia question: In how many calendar years has the favourite finished first in each leg of Australian racing’s ‘Grand Slam’? For the record, this four-legged achievement (in more ways than one) takes in the Golden Slipper, the Caulfield... Show More

20th October 1987 probably doesn’t mean a lot to anyone who wasn’t in the market – but for those who were - it was a day no one ever forgets... Show More

You may have seen an article recently about the head of the Dutch central bank, Klaas Knot, who is also a governor on the ECB, saying that “the picture resembles that of the period before the financial crisis”, that we are “about to witness a brutal collapse in asset prices”.... Show More

Oil Search (ASX:OSH) is a A$10.5bn (market cap) oil & gas company, incorporated in Papua New Guinea but listed in Australia. We took the view that, at the bottom of the oil price cycle, they represented a high quality, low-risk exposure to the energy sector. Show More

Want to know the biggest yield trap of 2017? Each year there are dividend plays that turn out to be yield traps. In 2012, it was QBE. During 2012 to 2014, we saw several consumer stocks turn out to be yield traps including Seven West Media, David Jones and Myer.... Show More

The A2 Milk Company continues to re-rate on the back of a very strong trading performance driven by ongoing gross margin expansion and continued rapid growth in sales of its A2 Platinum infant formula, especially in the large Chinese market. Show More

"Delivery by drone will soon be commonplace" Don Meij, CEO, Domino’s Pizza Enterprises Show More

Next to Materials (especially Resources), Industrials have been the sector which has added most to Fund performance through the past couple of years. We often address the logic behind our position in Resource names, and in recent years have also consistently spoken to the impact the Bond bubble has had... Show More

One of my favourite quotes used by Gerard Minack, a director of Morphic and Ex-Head of Developed Markets strategy at Morgan Stanley and well-known bear, is that “we’re just all different denominations of the same church”. That being the house of mammon. Show More

Markets tend to overreact on both the upside and the downside. Two years ago, Sirtex was trading at $40 per share and expectations were running high. Following several disappointing announcements, it’s now trading around $15. In this video, Matthew Booker from Spheria explains why they think it offers great value. Show More

With Domain listing next month, Jeremy Hook from TMS Capital asks Roger Montgomery from The Montgomery Fund and Neil Carter from IFM Investors for their take on the listing, posing 5 key questions using REA as a comparison. Show More

In a recent research paper, former Chair of the Federal Reserve, Mr Ben Bernanke, proposes price level targeting as an alternative framework for monetary policy. Since 2012, the Federal Reserve has had an explicit inflation target of 2% pa, with inflation commonly measured in terms of the chain price... Show More

Three of Australia’s biggest banks – Westpac (ASX: WBC), ANZ (ASX: ANZ) and NAB (ASX: NAB)– are about to report, and we think there’s plenty of reasons to be optimistic. A turnaround in the trajectory of net interest margins, and good news on bad and doubtful debts, should leave investors... Show More

There has been some recent commentary from a number of market participants suggesting that the US tech sector is “crowded” and “expensive”. In reality, the valuation of Alphabet compares very favourably to the Australian tech sector and the broader market. Show More

Just a few days ago, Alibaba Group, the Chinese on-line retailer, came within 1% of being the world’s most valuable retailer – with a market capitalisation of U$473b, its value was just US$4b lower than that of Amazon. Alibaba has been on a tear this year – it is up... Show More

At the latest combined meeting of the IMF and World Bank the heads of the world’s major central banks seemed close to agreeing that the global economic recovery is entrenched and that inflation is unlikely to stay low for much longer. It was the clearest warning so far that the... Show More

Bond Bears have become vociferous again in line with the recent move higher in US 10 year yield, which has moved higher by 36 bp, the highest for the year thus far as it currently sits at the average yield for 2017 at 2.31%. This has all the trademarks of... Show More