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Liberating our Malaise
Roger Montgomery
October 9, 2015
It’s hard not to think that the very intense spotlight being shined upon the US dollar makes it a key determinant of market direction in the near term.
Keeping in mind that none of this has any bearing on our investment process – which focuses our resources on the identification of high quality business, those with bright prospects, trading at rational prices – let’s take a quick look at how the currency might influence markets. continue…
by Roger Montgomery Posted in Foreign Currency, Insightful Insights.
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What’s the deal with Infomedia?
Tim Kelley
October 8, 2015
Infomedia (ASX: IFM) has been going through a difficult period recently. At the time of releasing its full year results in August, it also announced the resignation of CEO Andrew Pattinson, effective immediately, and the retirement of long-serving NED Myer Herszberg. The company found itself in the awkward position of having a somewhat disappointing set of numbers to present, and no CEO to present them. continue…
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Rollercoaster, but reasonable longer-term
Russell Muldoon
October 8, 2015
The one-year forward price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio for the S&P/ASX 200 Index has been on a rollercoaster recently. We would like to try to put a framework around the market movements to more-broadly understand the thinking around the volatility. continue…
by Russell Muldoon Posted in Insightful Insights, Market Valuation.
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Catastrophe risk
Scott Shuttleworth
October 7, 2015
The rewards in the stock market can be vast – why else would we spend so much time on it? But the risks can often go overlooked as we dream of retiring down at the beach tomorrow. One risk we would like to highlight is catastrophe risk. continue…
by Scott Shuttleworth Posted in Insightful Insights, Investing Education.
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Overpriced stocks
Roger Montgomery
October 7, 2015
In this interview with Ross Greenwood on 2GB Money News, Roger discusses uncertainty in the market, Australian banks and whether raising interest rates in the US is a potential catalyst for a market fall.
Click here to listen to the radio clip.
You can listen to any of Roger’s radio interviews through browsing our media library, listen to more clips here.
by Roger Montgomery Posted in Insightful Insights.
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Treasury Wine Estates – Part 1
Stuart Jackson
October 6, 2015
In this series of blogs, we will take you through an initial assessment of the investment case for a stock that potentially benefits from a particular investment theme. If the initial assessment warrants further investigation, we would then prepare a full investment case and valuation. continue…
by Stuart Jackson Posted in Companies, Insightful Insights.
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Why investors need to search for growing income
Roger Montgomery
October 5, 2015
For the last few years, investors have made off handsomely by simply buying large cap stocks with high yields like banks and Telstra. Low yielding term deposits have plunged retirees into what can only be described as an Income Recession and their cries have been heard by company boards, who have acquiesced to their demands for more income from shares by raising their company payout ratios. continue…
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The Great China Slowdown (Part 2)
David Buckland
October 2, 2015
I have previously discussed China’s Industrial Profits declined 8.8 per cent in August from a year earlier, with the biggest fall concentrated in coal, oil and metals, according to the National Bureau of statistics. continue…
by David Buckland Posted in Energy / Resources, Insightful Insights.
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Servicing debt after commodity prices have collapsed
David Buckland
October 1, 2015
Teck Resources, Canada’s largest diversified mining company, has been one of the larger “short positions” held in the Montaka Global Fund, so it was no surprise to the team at Montgomery when the credit rating of the miner was recently cut by Moody’s to junk bond status. continue…
by David Buckland Posted in Energy / Resources, Insightful Insights.
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Vodafone gets wired
Scott Shuttleworth
October 1, 2015
Vodafone Australia and TPG Telecom Limited (ASX: TPM) yesterday announced a circa $1 billion deal for the rollout of 4,000 km’s of dark fibre around Australia.
The agreement will allow Vodafone to link up it’s circa 3,000 mobile towers across Australia. This will enable the carrier to advance later in the decade into offering 5G mobile broadband services, a requirement for future competition with Telstra Corporation Limited (ASX: TLS) & Singtel Optus Pty Limited (SI: Z74). continue…
by Scott Shuttleworth Posted in Insightful Insights, Technology & Telecommunications.
