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It’s hard not to feel a little like Guy Montag in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 at present. The world has a decidedly dystopian tinge as negative interest rates and...

In Australia we’re fortunate to have some very talented women in funds management. Catherine Allfrey is one of them. After a chance encounter at a Wesfarmers event in...

Only a decade removed from the Global Financial Crisis (GFC), it may seem a bit counterintuitive to label banks as more of a ‘cushion’ than a ‘cause’ of the next...

Today I explain why this housing boom is very different to its predecessors, and should not constrain the RBA from cutting rates further to hit its inflation and...

We recap some of the profit reporting season highlights from this week including Corporate Travel Management, Uniti Group and Galaxy Resources. Full reports are...

Spare a thought for Wesfarmers’ boss Robb Scott.To the surprise of no one, shareholders in Scott’s $776 million lithium takeover target, Kidman Resources, voted...

On the micro-level, a failed or splendid financial performance release can have a noticeable impact on a company's share price up to three months down the track.On the...

In the current low growth environment, it is stocks with superior quality and earning power that are delivering great results for investors. Strong management,...

The local market traded lower from the get go today with the US market’s soft lead flowing through to the ASX. It was the manufacturing data last night that saw the...

‘Post Earnings Announcement Drift’ (PEAD) is a well-documented phenomenon describing the tendency for stock prices to move for weeks or months after results as the...

When it comes to the high multiple tech stocks with ‘cloud’ based subscription models, investors can’t be accused of taking the “Mr in between’ approach. The profit...

FY19 proved to be a difficult year for earnings, excluding Financials, Utilities, Resources and REITs, earnings contracted 3.0%. However, fewer significant misses from...

Stocks had a choppy day overall despite closing flat on the session, some large lines in the futures markets seemed the catalyst with the SPI Futures trading in a...

Stocks were down early this morning tracking weakness in US Futures following yesterday’s move by the Trump administration to implement its planned 15% tariffs on...

The Australian small cap market declined over the August 2019 reporting season, driven by a combination of negative macro-economic factors (including the escalating...

In February, we wrote an article on Echo Resources titled 'Is this the ASX's cheapest gold developer?' highlighting the company's unique asset base in one of...

Falling domestic interest rates had primed the Australian equity market for a poor bout of earnings results. By and large results were soft, but not disastrously so. ...

With offshore developments becoming increasingly difficult to predict or heaven forbid, with Trump's seesaw battle with China on trade, political opaqueness in Britain...

Today I show that the great Aussie housing boom is well and truly back, with Sydney and Melbourne house prices surging in August, up by north of 1.2% in the month...

One of the busiest times on the investor calendar is finally over. Fund managers are returning home to see their families, and investors don't need to worry about...

Investors in NIB Holdings (ASX:NHF) and Medibank Private (ASX:MPL) would have enjoyed the past six months, with the share price of both companies rising by over 20 per...

With reporting season sprinting to the end, on a fundamental level it is not all doom and gloom, there are winners (and losers). We notice a clear winner in companies...

We recap some of the profit reporting season highlights from this week including Macquarie Group, Afterpay Touch Group, IOOF Holdings, Propel Funeral Partners, Bega...

If you find mortgage repayments a burden, consider moving to Denmark, where Jyske Bank recently announced a 10-year fixed rate mortgage with an interest rate of minus...