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Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates is regarded as the most successful hedge fund manager of all time. And he has a way of thinking about the world that has helped his clients navigate the vicissitudes of the market with such skill they have entrusted $186 billion to Bridgewater. continue…

by Roger Montgomery Posted in Insightful Insights, Investing Education.

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China’s cement demand peaked in 2014 at 2.48 billion tonnes or 1.81 tonnes per capita based on 1.37 billion people. This is 2.5 times the per capita demand in both Japan and the US (0.7 tonnes) and 1.4 times the per capita demand in the high-density cement markets of Taiwan and Korea (1.3 tonnes). continue…

by David Buckland Posted in Insightful Insights, Manufacturing.

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We haven’t commented on the National Broadband Network (NBN) for some time but Montgomery has nonetheless been keeping up to date with its development and the seemingly never ending saga of leaks. continue…

by Scott Shuttleworth Posted in Insightful Insights, Technology & Telecommunications.

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In this recent post I discussed some of the statistics behind investment outperformance, and made the observation that in recent years, the stocks selected for inclusion in The Montgomery Fund have outperformed the market only 54 per cent of the time.  While we get more right than we get wrong, the actual percentage of stock picks we get right is perhaps smaller than most people might think, and this is likely to hold true for most, if not all, investment managers. continue…

by Tim Kelley Posted in Insightful Insights, Investing Education.

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In this interview with Peter Switzer, Roger Montgomery discusses the market’s volatility, the excess supply of oil and the outlook for Australian banks.

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We’ve previously warned of a perfect storm developing in Australia’s LNG market (see here and here).  The ACCC’s investigation of this opaque sector is due next month, but its preliminary observations suggest it will be difficult to stop this storm from upending the market. continue…

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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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