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Local stocks enjoying growth offshore provide a rare shining light in a market exposed to our weakening economy. In this episode of Buy Hold Sell, we look at stocks...

There have been a number of commentators who have made the point that we have inflation in things we need (housing, utilities, fruit&veg, hospital services) and...

Last month, I was sitting in a hotel lobby (actually the Bar) in Amsterdam after attending the International Plasma Protein Conference. I started talking with a fellow...

CIMIC Group (ASX: CIM) is a global engineering-led construction, mining and services business with a history dating back to 1899. This week, CIMIC released their...

This time last year, we discussed Zip Co and Afterpay, comparing them to “buying Xero in the early days.” With Zip Co (ASX:Z1P) up 138% and Afterpay (ASX:APT) up 330%,...

There’s been a lot of talk of inverted yield curves in the US and whether they portend a recession or a stock market crash. But, I wonder whether we need to watch the...

The banks got the green light today, and when money flows into the big 4 the index tends to follow. Market ran with speculation CBA would be cutting a fifth of its...

The Australian Bureau of Statistics has released its latest Construction Work Done figures for the December quarter. Not surprising, residential housing activity looks...

Some might be forgiven for thinking the wheels have fallen off Australian politics over the past decade with the same number of PM changes as Italy, a fractured...

Today I write about an interview this week with one of Australia's most successful and innovative funds management pioneers, Magellan's Hamish Douglass, who says he...

A column in The Australian over the weekend argued that mums and dads should think about selling their fully franked bank Tier 1 hybrids to buy unfranked Tier 2...

A recent podcast with Robert Millner, Chairman of Washington H Soul Pattison & Company Ltd (ASX:SOL) provided valuable insights into the mindset of a long-term...

The German giant this week named hard-rock lithium, such as that from WA, as being far more desirable than the South American brine-type. Plus, it loves Australia. The...

IMF Bentham (IMF) was traditionally a litigation funder which provided finance to legal firms purely using its own balance sheet. This business model has worked well...

One value-seeking investor recently proposed a daring mission for Criterion which, naturally, your intrepid columnist chose to accept: identify a handful of small cap...

When we think about the economic progress of the human race over the past 50 years, there is probably no more important development than our ever-increasing ability to...

Bloomberg keeps a regularly updated list of the world's wealthiest billionaires on their website. The current Top 10 can be seen below. What is interesting besides the...

The local market couldn’t replicate the strength seen in the US overnight. There was a switch out of growth names today into more defensives as resources and...

Ansys is the dominant player in the simulation software industry, helping the world’s most innovative companies such as Ferrari, Dyson and Tesla design and test new...

After disposing of its truck fleet management business, TomTom is now an attractively valued pure play mapping data business, posing an interesting takeover target for...