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Something interesting happened a month ago. I woke up on the 9 November and found one of the companies in our portfolio had rocketed overnight. And by rocketed, I...

This week we turn our attention to the previously unloved (and underperforming) but now surging area of the stock market, value stocks. The question on everyone's...

Local market had another positive day on global traders chasing currency trade. It was very low turnover day as most local fundies were already on holiday mode with...

Over the past few years, every upward move in equities has been met by doubters. The argument was that valuations were expensive. If they weren’t, it was due to the...

As we all know the Coal Sector was arguably the darkest corner of the market in 2019 with the likes of Whitehaven Coal (WHC) down over 70%. The fall was attributed to...

In 2000 I was a student at Harvard Business School and got the opportunity to do an internship at a venture capital fund in Beijing. On my first day, I woke up early...

Keeping an open mind about stock selection will be crucial next year. If investors find a good idea, they must try to ensure perceptions about the short-term macro...

Are share markets cheap or expensive right now? Well, it depends who you ask. And there are plenty of people happy to offer their opinion. But at the risk of adding to...

Just as many of today’s most successful companies started out as micro-caps, some of the current cohort of ASX-listed earlier-stage companies are now graduating to...

The Australian-dollar price is now higher than in its heyday of 2011, delivering big wins for investors in highly-leveraged juniors such as Fenix and Strike. And...

Local market had a positive day on Iron Ore miners and global traders on currency trade. The market mainly traded with the currency through the day while the big three...

As every battle-hardened investor knows: achieving investment return comes with acceptance of risk. In the short term, taking on a lot of risk can be extremely...

Australian renewables are no longer a small and nuanced asset class for the environmentally-focused. The latest state government budget announcements confirm driving...

Given the extraordinary events of the COVID-tortured 2020, there are many things investors may not be able to ignore in in what is hopefully a less-traumatic 2021. The...

Global equities have advanced as investors have weighed the worsening coronavirus pandemic against hopes of a potential vaccine. As sentiment rises, however, we...

I recently picked my seven-year old daughter up from school, gabbling excitedly about what she had just learnt about solar energy. The drive home was punctuated with...

As 2020 draws to a close, transition in the White House is underway and vaccine discoveries are lowering the likelihood of another damaging lockdown. Policymakers also...

The fixed income market has experienced a sharp rebound since the early days of the pandemic, with spreads on many fixed income securities narrowing to...

In the current climate of economic uncertainty, equity market volatility and low bond yields, there has never been a more important time to diversify your client’s...

If the underlying purpose of investing is to preserve and grow your purchasing power, then the biggest conundrum is surely defining the value of a dollar – especially...