Australian value investing

In 1976, US economist, Herbert Stein, famously stated that “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” His observation could well be applied to the ballooning...

One of the most fundamental dichotomies that can be drawn in equity markets is the one that separates “value” from “growth”. In simple terms, you pick a basic metric...

COVID-19 has claimed many casualties however office life will not be one of them. Rather, our relationship with the office is likely to evolve into one that places an...

While fully aware that very few commentators offering their opinion on the health and financial implications of COVID-19 are actually epidemiologists, GP’s and/or...

With the Australian market in freefall, readers and clients alike have asked us where we are looking to invest. While we continue to monitor the fluid situation...

After extensive research (detailed below) we believe Invex Therapeutics (IXC AU) will pass its upcoming phase 2 trial in Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension (IIH)...

Looking purely from an investing perspective, the global sell-off caused by the coronavirus pandemic could be manna from heaven for cashed-up value investors. I think...

In an uncertain world, should investors have a strategy that looks beyond current trends and accommodates a range of different possible futures? In recent years growth...

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

Why we have been buying Oceana We have historically allocated between 4 and 8% of our portfolio to gold equities. We do so for their defensive (uncorrelated)...

In our latest podcast Mario Emmanuel joins us to riff on our article 'Value is Dead, Long Live Value'. You can access the podcast here. Also available on iTunes here.

As recently as two months ago, pundits and talking heads of the financial world were wondering: is it different this time? The global economy was performing strongly,...

Value investing has gotten a bad name of late. The value vs growth debate rages on and growth continues to dominate returns. It is likely that the average growth...

The current Reporting Season of August 2018 has left some investors surprised, some disappointed and some delighted. As Reporting Season nears completion, a name...

Since the Royal Commission kicked off hardly a day has gone by without Australia’s largest financial institutions in the news, for all the wrong reasons. Some of the...

The market moves in cycles which are often extreme. We are currently experiencing a market which appears almost exclusively focused upon momentum rather than value,...