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Water torture always seemed to me a fanciful way of inducing insanity. Constant dripping might be annoying; however, inducing insanity is another matter altogether....

Local market was aimless and volatile all day before ending slightly positive. We were catching up from yesterday’s ASX shutdown after the first 30 minutes. US market...

Technology is the standout stock sector for the Credit Suisse multi-asset team, which favours the category despite its overarching neutral view on equities, says CIO...

The COVID-19 pandemic has further ingrained the idea that disruptive businesses represent the economy of both the future and of today. It has also helped embed the...

In 2020, the long debate of growth versus value still rages. Detractors of the style will argue that with interest rates so low, these companies are mere...

COVID Derangement Syndrome (CDS) is a nasty affliction that causes investors to misprice stocks. Some sufferers have it so bad they will buy or sell without regard to...

Richard Ivers, portfolio manager at Prime Value Asset Management, says that investors get lured towards ‘new and shiny’ opportunities when looking at small caps. This...

Macquarie Telecom (ASX:MAQ) is a leading Australian telecom and datacentre provider. Its datacentre business is booming as more and more organisations shift their...

In more terrific news overnight, Moderna Inc. revealed that its "experimental coronavirus vaccine was 94.5% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 in an early...

Pfizer and BioNTech just announced that their vaccine was over 90% effective in a trial of 43,000 people, with no major adverse safety effects. These trials work by...

Local market started positive on the US lead before ASX crapped itself and trading was put on halt. We saw some slight trading through Chi X but nothing much today....

After a tumultuous year in which growth stocks dominated, the announcement of a successful vaccine has investors questioning whether these trends will continue. With...

This quarter we wanted to focus on the significant medium-term opportunity around raw materials for Electric Vehicles (EVs), and particularly...

In our latest investment webinar we discussed the RBA's recently unveiled plans to drop interest rates to unprecedented levels to support the Australian economy and...

The historic balance between stocks and bonds is a fundamental building block of modern investment theory but it may be one that needs a rethink. With Australia now...

Today, investors find themselves in the midst of a “growth at any price” bubble, characterised by very high concentration in market capitalisation, narrow performance...

The ownership of a mineral royalty (a contractually established financial asset) over a producing or near-production mining asset has been the basis of many Australian...

As Warren Buffett once said: “Price is what you pay; value is what you get.” This simple definition underpins the logical pursuit of value investors to make...

The trends which have been driving markets have remained the same for a long time. Cheap money and scarce growth. Anyone who has taken an interest in stock markets...

The tsunami of monetary and fiscal stimulus this year is a continuation of the policies implemented when the Financial Crisis began. When these first started the few...