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The local market started positive before profit-taking delivered a flat low turnover day. We have started the seventh week in a row without a double-digit turnover...

Network as a Service provider (NaaS), Megaport (ASX:MP1) is a company we follow with interest, and one that we have commented on in several previous articles. In late...

Holon Global Investments recently announced that we had become a selected shareholder in the Avanti Financial Group, Inc (Avanti Bank) through their $US37 million...

US shares have rarely been high on an income investor's wishlist, with average dividend yields for the S&P 500 Index meaningfully trailing the ASX 200 Index and other...

Beryl Capital is a strategy run by David Witkin that has typically invested in merger arbitrage opportunities. This strategy has delivered investors net returns over...

In March the Commonwealth budget recorded a technical surplus, albeit it remained in clear deficit on a seasonally-adjusted basis. Along similar lines, the NSW budget...

Islamic bonds are a relatively small market which has evolved to satisfy investor demand for fixed income-type securities which are still compliant with Islamic law...

Advisers and wiser clients themselves generally try and run a diversified portfolio. As they say, diversification is only necessary when you don’t “know”...

We’ve all heard of companies like Expedia, TripAdvisor, Live Nation (the owners of TicketMaster) and the Match Group (the parent company of dating apps including...

For many investors investing in fixed income means sitting back and collecting the half-yearly interest payments. But Jason Lindeman, Head of Credit Research at...

Which were the winning listed companies of the last decade? Just take a look at the pointy end of the global rich list: Amazon's Jeff Bezos, Tesla's Elon Musk,...

In the AFR today I write that long-time readers of this column have been hearing about the drum-beats of war between China and the US for the best part of a decade....

Welcome to Off the Charts! where we bring you the biggest headlines of the week on all things investing, and the odd item we just had to share. The stories from...

Getting the "vaccine trade" right was perhaps the single biggest factor for investors' performance in the second half of 2020. Equity markets jumped 10% in November on...

The iron ore price continues to post fresh multi-year highs belying the many doubters who have been calling a top for the bulk commodity basically since I can...

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’re probably aware the performance of value stocks outstripped growth at the end of last year, for the first time since...

A monthly wrap-up of interesting and informative media on finance, economics, politics and society that you might have missed. Short sellers have been pulling back,...

The local market ran into profit-taking on big caps from global investors and small/micro caps from retail investors as the last day of the month rolled in. We had...

Something interesting happened in March this year – the dominant theme that has been driving relative stock performance has reversed. In the previous 12 months, the...

To say that government debt levels are high is nothing new. Even before COVID hit, despite years of austerity, debt levels were already extremely elevated. But after...