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Going global for value and growth

Wilson Asset Management has long been regarded as the dominant listed investment company specialist within the Australian equity market. When the company entered...
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Where to hide in an inflating bubble

After starting out as an equity portfolio manager at Daiwa International Capital Management in London during the late 1980s, Tony Cousins is now Chief Executive &...
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A quality stock with a hidden advantage

The world’s most valuable resource is not oil, but data. Companies that can collect unique data on users, and then leverage it, can have a massive edge over their...
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Understanding and investing in China's ascendancy

Down here in the antipodes, where our own economic fortunes have for many years been closely tied to those of our neighbour to the north, we have seen firsthand how...
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Montgomery: The economics of enough

Australian house prices and the economy stand at an important crossroads. On the one hand, we have the return of the Liberal-National coalition, the softening of APRA...
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The five pillars of a quality stock

As soon as she was able to open a trading account, Michelle Lopez bought shares in ASX, seeing it as a monopoly business crucial to the function of financial markets....
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The hunt for predictable cash flows

An investor's job can be boiled down to two primary tasks, explains Warryn Robertson, Portfolio Manager at Lazard. First, to predict what a company's cash flows or...
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Abnormal returns

In year 427BC, the Greek philosopher Plato founded ‘The Academy’, which is considered the world’s first university. It is somewhat fitting then that half of...
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The 5-step screen for building the A-list

After starting with speculative mining stocks in Zimbabwe in the 1990's, today Bob Desmond works as Head of International Equities at Claremont Global in Sydney. In...
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Skamvougeras: Forgotten opportunities

In the lead up to the tech wreck of the early 2000s Paul Skamvougeras was working on the dealing desk at Perpetual. The ‘value’ focused manager was struggling to keep...
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Watling: Australian recession is still my base case

Back in February, Chris Watling, CEO and Chief Market Strategist at Longview Economics, wrote that a recession in Australia was likely, and that rates would be cut to...
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The greatest opportunity in the history of capitalism

"We've had 10 years of fantastic structural growth, however, the next 10 years may be even more exciting than the last, and adoption will happen at a much faster rate....
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Matt Williams: An extraordinary decade

On the 30 July 2010, DuluxGroup was spun out of Orica and commenced trading on the ASX at $2.50 a share. In April this year, the board of Dulux recommended that...
James Marlay
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Steve Johnson: The search for extreme dislocations

When Walter Schloss founded the funds management firm that bore his name in 1955, markets were a very different place. Schloss harnessed the power of Ben Graham's...
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Credit Suisse unveils the ABC portfolio

Despite a 17 per cent drawdown in the wake of the GFC, Andrew McAuley the CIO at Credit Suisse, says it took just 12 months to for their portfolios to bounce back. Not...
James Marlay
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The DNA of a bona fide contrarian

"As soon as you start to get comfortable in a particular stock or company, we're generally selling and finding the next uncomfortable thing to own." That’s the...
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Aitken: Trade wars present ‘tremendous opportunity’

Charlie Aitken has a simple investment philosophy: Build a concentrated portfolio of the world's best companies in structural growth sectors. And for this week’s...
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The biggest themes in global natural resources today

The global natural resources sector, including mining and energy as well as agriculture, is about four times bigger than the entire Australian equity market. Sifting...
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Alex Cowie
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Ben Griffiths: Markets are at an inflection point

When Isaac Newton first posited that an object in motion would stay in motion unless acted upon, he probably wasn't thinking of stock markets. But hundreds of years...
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I'm the person buying the stocks that will make you feel marginally sick

Nick Kirrage admits he was never a gifted athlete but nevertheless last year completed the ‘Marathon Des Sables’, a 254km ultra-marathon across the Sahara Desert. A...
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Alex Cowie
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Why Ronni Chalmers likes to play the long game

Ronni Chalmers is the CIO of CBG Asset Management winner of the 2013 Golden Calf Award for best performing boutique that year. The CBG Australian Equities Fund has had...
James Marlay
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Qiao Ma: The difference between a trader and an investor

It's not everyday that you discover a fund with truly eye catching performance. When I recently pulled up the track record of the Cooper Investors Asian Tiger Fund,...
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Why we still back Buffett

With the climate of political polarisation, an unprecedented shift in monetary policy, and trade wars all impacting markets globally, you need a safe pair of hands...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
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Finding the next Macquarie Bank

Finding cheap stocks this late in the cycle is getting harder and harder. Index funds have bid up the prices of large-cap stocks to levels not seen since the tech...
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Braitling: Valuation has never mattered less...

On the 23rd of May, eight fund managers will present their best ideas at The Future Generation Investment Forum. The line up this year looks exceptional and boasts a...
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