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Cooler heads prevailed across the market today with the index opening higher and despite being choppy, it stayed higher throughout the session buoyed by positive...

Every quarter I like to look at the changes in Australian GDP and which categories are responsible for the growth / decline. Each bubble represents a category of GDP...

Word on the street is that Legend Mining has a cracker of a nickel find in the Fraser Range. With assays expected next week, the race is on to identify the best...

In 2004, Dynamex Operations West, a California-based courier company, suddenly reclassified its permanent full-time employees as independent contractors, depriving...

In a previous life I once tried to explain to a horrified client of an Australian fund why the fund didn't own many mining companies when the market there was booming....

We like small companies with strong growth potential and IMDEX Limited (ASX:IMD) has grown substantially with a market cap over $610 million and sales in 102 countries...

EOS uses lasers to track satellites in space and to target enemy vehicles on the battlefield. It might sound like science fiction but it has $250m of sales and $36m of...

The last major structural shift in transportation took place just over 100 years ago. In the space of 13 years, the world went from all horse and carriage to all...

Over the last decade in Australian equities, factor returns for growth and momentum-based strategies have been astonishingly successful - versus value and earnings...

Not many people get to meet an investing legend in their lifetime, let alone someone who pioneered markets like Peter Lynch, but as a graduate on Fidelity's analyst...

There is no doubt that Australia’s small companies market has the ability to generate significant wealth. This is because stockbrokers don’t earn enough revenue from...

The market hit hard again today taking the total decline from the 29th November high of 6893 on the ASX 200 to -303pts / -4.4% to today’s low of 6590, a meaningful...

Finding growth businesses with a long runway of opportunity, that can also grow independent of the economic cycle, can feel a bit like looking for a needle in a...

Australia has long had a love affair with bricks and mortar type investments. This strategy has reaped large rewards for many. Glimpses of the path ahead were evident...

In 2018, the top 10 dividend paying stocks accounted for 63% of all dividends paid in Australia, according to the Janus Henderson Global Dividend Index. Of these, the...

As news is emerging that Australian Treasurer, Josh Frydenberg, will soon deliver a balanced budget for the first time since the GFC, one needs to ask if this is even...

Themes around secular growth are widely covered by the media, but they often focus on the consumer-facing companies that dominate a particular...

On the anniversary of listing our first retail fund, I reflected on some of the lessons learned and the opportunities ahead for the Qualitas Real Estate Income Fund...

Boutique investment teams outperform A 2018 analysis demonstrated that boutiques significantly outperform non-boutiques in institutional equity categories (with the...

Brian Hartzer knew it was over the second he picked up his phone. Last Monday, as CEO of Westpac, Hartzer had called his senior executives into a room for the...