Equities
If you are going to venture into micro cap stocks, you need to be wide awake to the fact that there are two alternate universes for the one market segment. There is the conventional world where investors buy and sell interests in businesses that are striving to create value for their... Show More
Funds
The majority of microcap funds continued their good start to 2019 and the majority of managers appear to have recovered some of the losses suffered in the final quarter of 2018. However, as a group microcap managers are trailing both comparable indexes and the performance of large-cap stocks in 2019. The... Show More
Equities
I wrote about 5G Networks (5GN) back in December. Since then the company has entered the Data Centre market, raised $8m and a number of new funds have joined the register. So it is worth an update on what is happening at 5GN and where things might be heading from here. Melbourne... Show More
Funds
We take our monthly look at the returns of Australian Microcap Funds. The majority of funds endured double-digit and drawdowns in the Dec 18 quarter. This large drawdown in the last quarter also pulled the majority of the funds negative for the calendar year. Show More
We take our monthly look at the returns of Australian Microcap Funds. While most funds avoided the large drawdowns seen in October the majority still posted small negative absolute returns for November. We can only hope for a late Santa Clause rally to put some gloss on what looks to... Show More
As we close the door on a difficult 2018 in equity markets, attention turns to the year ahead. In our inaugural Livewire contribution, we thought we’d introduce what we think is potentially one of 2019’s top microcap ideas. Show More
Well, one of the roughest month in a long time is behind us and November has seen a bit of rebound in share markets. Microcap's were one of the worst hit in the last month, with the S&P/ASX Emerging Companies Index returning -10.91% for the month! Other indexes faired somewhat... Show More
Q1FY19 was a challenging quarter for microcap managers but the majority of managers navigated the market well with the average manager posting a return of +2.6% for the quarter. This was in contrast to S&P/ASX All Ordinaries Accumulation Index which returned +1.9% for the period. The performance of large stocks... Show More
BuildingIQ (BIQ: ASX) Is a stock that is completely off the wider investment radar for a reason that will become obvious in due course. That doesn’t mean though it’s not an interesting investment proposition. Show More
MedAdvisor (MDR: ASX) operates in the healthcare IT space, specifically in improving the interaction between pharmacies, patients, drug manufacturers, doctors, and government. MDR provides a fully digital end to end experience for handling medical scripts for prescribed medication, primarily targeting chronic conditions which require ongoing medication management. Show More