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In a wire I published with Livewire on the 6th March 2018, ‘Don't buy value just for value's sake’, we outlined as our top pick a company called IDP Education (ASX: IEL). Since then, fortunately for clients, the share price has had a meteoric 122% price gain from $7.55 to... Show More

For many years, Fairfax enjoyed its famous ‘rivers of gold’, the seemingly endless cascade of revenue pouring in from its online advertising pages. These 'rivers' have long since carved their own channels though, and as Matthew Kidman from Centennial Funds quips in this entertaining episode of Buy Hold Sell, ‘the... Show More

Another day where sellers took the gong - the index traded down however there was a lot happening under the hood with the Macquarie Equities Conference underway – more on that below. Most selling happened in the morning on the back of weaker than expected Chinese Manufacturing data – the... Show More

Welcome to the FNArena Reporting Season Monitor for the February result season 2019. The Monitor reports ratings and consensus price target changes, along with brief summaries of the collective responses, from FNArena database brokers for each of 300+ stocks. Week 4 is now available below, with coverage of 284 stocks. Show More

Money made its way back into the market today after yesterday’s sea of red. Futures showed signs of jitters early in the session but for the most part the market was bid up well throughout the day and saw some particularly strong buying late in the session. Australian construction data... Show More

Payday lenders in the firing line, Blake Henricks from Firetrail explains how he uses board games to be a better investor, and reports reveals European austerity cost the EU economy $1.3 trillion. Here's what's happening in markets today. Show More

In the last couple of months it has been all about “the market”. We have been more concerned with cash levels than stock selection and as one of my team said yesterday, you know something is wrong when the first word anyone says when they walk into the office is... Show More

The market corrections in February and October should be a warning to investors that the stock market is highly cyclical. It was inevitable that ‘growth’ stocks, which pushed the market to new highs for many months eventually led the collapse. Investors who paid heed to Howard Marks’ famous quote on... Show More

Until Seek came along, recruiting was pretty much about bunging an ad in Saturday’s classifieds and sifting candidates based on their ability to write a semi-coherent application. Show More

In this daily reporting season update, we provide first impressions on key takeouts from companies reporting today, including Insurance Australia Group, CSL, Woodside Petroleum, Computershare, Wesfarmers, Seek and Dexus Property Group with links through to more detailed reports. Show More