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With Christmas holidays fast approaching, it is worth considering using the free time to invest in yourself. One way to do this of course is to read. continue…

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With so-called blue-chip shares such as ANZ, CBA, NAB, Westpac, Telstra, BHP and Woolworths tanking in recent months, now is a reasonable time to ask if anything is cheap.

In this column published in The Australian, Roger discusses how to identify a bargain.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 previously observed that sell-side analyst valuations have a tendency to gravitate around share prices. Yet the anchoring bias to their own valuations can sometimes be just as strong, particularly when prices fall sharply, as is currently the case with Slater and Gordon. continue…

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“Revenue is vanity, profits are sanity and cash flow is reality”. That was a quote I heard from a very successful business man and a company I was fortunate enough to be researching in my formative years as an analyst. Thankfully, it stuck.

Poor cash management practices are the number one reason why businesses go bankrupt. Without the proper amount of cash on hand, reckless spending on unprofitable ventures or worse a business that doesn’t produce any, entities can run into trouble quicker than you think wreaking havoc on your portfolio. continue…

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Vocation Limited (ASX: VET), the troubled vocational education provider, has entered into voluntary administration. continue…

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Each quarter we provide a Boardroom Breakfast video to all Montgomery clients. For those still considering investing with us we presented a webinar that more than a thousand people registered for, so there was simply no way we were going to be able to answer every question asked. And there was a bunch! One that was asked that we promised to publish the answer to immediately was a request for the top ten stocks by Return on Equity (ROE). continue…

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In this interview with Ticky Fullerton, Roger comments on Glen Stevens’ speech on investing in the long run. He reinforces the idea that shareholders need to appreciate the long term benefits of companies that reinvest their dividends.

You can listen to all of the team’s television interviews through browsing our media library, view more clips here.

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Regular readers will know that the first question we ask in evaluating possible investments is usually a question about business quality. We take the view that over long periods of time, high quality businesses are far more likely to deliver the sort of investment performance we are looking for in terms of investment growth with a low risk of loss of capital. continue…

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Previously we advised caution in investing in the education sector (see here) and noted that perhaps holders of securities in said sector may be taking on more risk than they’d first imagined (see here). continue…

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The Federal Government is currently conducting a number of reviews into the healthcare industry. These include the Reform of the Federation White Paper, the Private Health Insurance Review, the Primary Health Care Advisory Group, and the Medicare Benefits Schedule Review. You might have seen recent media stories about an online government survey that the public can take to provide feedback on a range of issues and options for private health insurance reform. continue…

by Stuart Jackson Posted in Health Care, Insightful Insights, Insurance.

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