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The half-year to December 2015 saw more records for Sirtex Medical (ASX: SRX). continue…

by David Buckland Posted in Health Care, Insightful Insights.

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Blenheim Partners have summarised the senior appointments and Board movements across the market for the month of February. continue…

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Well, what a difference a few weeks can make in financial markets. It seems that based on the daily moves higher in all things commodities, the bears gave up en-masse on their shorts. Just overnight oil rose another 5.5 per cent and iron ore with 62 per cent content jumped up an incredible 19 percent. The biggest one-day gain since 2009 by some margin.

To put these moves into context however, a few comments from a recent Bloomberg article below are noteworthy;

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by Russell Muldoon Posted in Insightful Insights.

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While the big story this reporting season is BHP’s progressive dividend backflip, the rest of corporate Australia, it seems, is doing OK. Some results have been sufficiently surprising that analysts following them have upgraded their outlooks including annuity income security seller Challenger. But the real story this reporting season has been the results of smaller companies recently listed by private equity players.

Click on the image below to read Roger’s Herald Sun article.You can read all of the team’s press articles through browsing our media library, view more articles here.

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We have watched from the sidelines, with interest, the commentary surrounding the collapse of Dick Smith (ASX:DSH). continue…

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Last year my friend Ashley Owen demonstrated that there is no observable relationship over any one-year period between economic growth rates and share market performance.  So macro economics doesn’t form part of our investment process.  Microeconomics however is a different thing altogether and the trends and structural changes in an industry or sector of an economy are vitally important to the companies therein. continue…

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Continuing my ongoing series of interviews with Montgomery investment staff, where I lift the lid and see what makes the people behind the process, the blog posts and the impressive numbers tick. I catch up to George Hadjia, Analyst for the Montgomery Global Fund and the Montaka Global Fund. continue…

by Scott Phillips Posted in Insightful Insights.

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If you are a close observer of the share market and the subsequent release of material information such as half-year and full-year reports, you may be perplexed to see a stock price fall after the company increased or even delivered record earnings, or conversely, similarly confused as to why a stocks price would jump after the company announces earnings that decreased producing an ugly set of results? continue…

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In my view, the role of chance in equity investing is one of the most important concepts a successful investor needs to grasp.  It’s also one that pretty much everyone seems to forget – sometimes even seasoned investment professionals. continue…

by Tim Kelley Posted in Insightful Insights, Investing Education.

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Profits for the S&P 500 companies, according to Thompson Reuters, declined by 3.5 per cent in the December 2015 Quarter relative to the December 2014 Quarter.  The 30 per cent decline in the oil price over those two periods, from US$53/ bbl to US$37/bbl, lead to a 75 per cent collapse in energy companies’ profitability. continue…

by David Buckland Posted in Insightful Insights.

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