Around 12 months ago, we noted that Avita Medical (ASX:AVH) – which provides a novel approach to skin regeneration – was a business worth keeping tabs on.  Although its share price has felt the effects of the COVID-19 market sell-off, our positive view of the company has not changed. Continue…

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Investors in Australian slot machine and mobile games developer, Aristocrat Leisure (ASX:ALL), have enjoyed stellar returns over the past 10 years, with the share price up over 500 per cent in that time.  However, its results for the 6 months to the end of March were patchy, and it remains to be seen how strongly the business can emerge from the coronavirus lockdown. Continue…

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Gary joined Chris Judd on Talk Ya Book to discuss a sector that is exposed to huge tailwinds and specifically a holding in the Montgomery Small Companies Fund, Macquarie Telecom. You can watch the 20-minute interview below.

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Have you ever seen a Kugel Fountain? It’s a water sculpture crowned by a large stone sphere held up by the pressure of the water rising beneath it. A bit like the situation we see today, with stock market being the sphere, supported by a steady flow of central bank money. And therein lies the problem: turn off the water and the sphere plunges to Earth. Continue…

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The massive dislocations caused by the coronavirus pandemic are having only a temporary impact on stock markets, which are pricing in a V-shaped income, earnings and economic recovery. But is this optimism warranted? Or will we continue to see businesses negatively impacted for some time to come? Continue…

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Data is the new oil, knowledge is power. We live in a deeply connected world, there are literally billions of devices that are now connected to the internet, collecting, processing and delivering information, putting it into the hands of decision makers. Across the world roughly 1.5 billion smartphones are sold per annum, which means there’s about four and a half billion out there in the hands of consumers and people working in corporates. Continue…

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I recently discussed the fantasy world that some seem to be living in believing that a recovery will be easy and quick rather than slow and halting. We are in a recession and recessions rarely last six months, and finally, employment prospects in hospitality, retail and construction have deteriorated to such an extent that there will be fewer jobs for people to come back to when their jobseeker payments return to ‘normal’ and Jobkeeper payments cease later this year. Continue…

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