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If you’re a smaller shareholder in either Westfield Group (ASX: WDC) or Westfield Retail Trust (ASX: WRT), then you might be forgiven for thinking you’re in the middle of World War Three. continue…

by Roger Montgomery Posted in Consumer discretionary, Insightful Insights, Property.

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The make up of consumer price index (CPI) data in many countries is not necessarily closely related to the cost of living. For example, in the US, ‘everyday’ consumer expenditure on food and energy has less than a 25 per cent weighting on their CPI, and is excluded altogether from a ‘core’ inflation. continue…

by David Buckland Posted in Economics, Foreign Currency, Insightful Insights.

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Yesterday, the Bureau of Resources and Energy Economics released their biannual Resources and Energy Major Projects—April 2014 report, providing analysis on resources, energy, infrastructure and processing projects. continue…

by David Buckland Posted in Energy / Resources, Insightful Insights, Whitepapers.

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SAI Global (ASX: SAI) is a company that we’ve identified as having some attractive investment prospects, but one that we prefer to watch rather than invest in. Since it has recently received an indicative and non-binding proposal from private equity, was it the correct decision to wait on the sidelines? continue…

by Ben MacNevin Posted in Companies, Insightful Insights.

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In October last year, we offered you the opportunity to buy a diversified digital ‘business’ that generated $16.9m in revenue, and made a $4.1m loss in 2013 – for $292m. Whilst this didn’t sound like a great deal (and it wasn’t), the business had amazing prospects according to market announcements that were replete with industry buzzwords such as ‘cloud’, ‘mobile’, ‘payments’ and ‘online scale’. In reflection of this, shares in the company were performing strongly. continue…

by Russell Muldoon Posted in Insightful Insights.

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Boost your Returns Part 2 – It’s Alive!

In Part 1 of our Boost your Returns series, we introduced the idea of using pattern recognition technology to assist in the selection of potential investment candidates. You may recall we proposed using a machine learning model called a Support Vector Machine (SVM) to identify the features that separate good investment opportunities from poor ones. Having done that, we can aim the model at the A1-B3 universe in search of some hidden gems. continue…

by Tim Kelley Posted in Insightful Insights.

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After years of negotiations, Russia’s Gazprom and China’s National Petroleum Corporation have signed a historic gas deal which will supply China with natural gas for the next 30 years. continue…

by David Buckland Posted in Energy / Resources, Insightful Insights.

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In the last decade or so, Australian mobile phone services have risen from 8 million to 30.2 million. Internet penetration has risen from 30 per cent to 89 per cent of households. And, despite unique anti-syphoning legislation, which ensures free-to-air TV gets to broadcast the big sporting events; Pay TV has increased to 30 per cent household penetration (despite being stuck there since 2008), from virtually nothing in 1995. continue…

by Russell Muldoon Posted in Insightful Insights, Market Valuation, Technology & Telecommunications.

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The field of machine learning has advanced in leaps and bounds in recent decades. A milestone was passed in 1996 when IBM’s Deep Blue became the first machine to win a chess game against a reigning world champion and, since then, advances in computing power and pattern recognition technologies have seen machines improve their performance at tasks that previously could only be accomplished by humans. continue…

by Tim Kelley Posted in Insightful Insights.

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Caterpillar Inc’s March 2013 quarterly net income was down 45 per cent to $0.88 billion, on a 17.5 per cent reduction in revenue to $13.2b (click here to read our original post on the reduction). continue…

by David Buckland Posted in Companies, Insightful Insights.

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