When a private-equity-backed start-up reaches a billion-dollar valuation – a valuation simply decided and agreed on by the owners of the business – it’s called a unicorn. This title refers to the rarity of such creatures. But the fact is, unicorns are only found in fairy tales. And many of today’s corporate unicorns shouldn’t exist either. Continue…

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In this week’s video insight Roger discusses negative yielding bonds. Normally you would expect that negative yielding bonds would be a temporary situation but this situation has lasted longer than anyone has anticipated. Is it a sign of a recession? And what does it actually mean when you buy a bond with a negative yield?

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In this interview on Money News, Roger and Deborah Knight question whether anecdotal support for an investment case can be a good starting point? A few years ago, Warren Buffett doubled his stake in Apple after he spoke to his great grandchildren and their friends on how to use the IPhone.

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Right now, there’s a battle being fought in the media between Australia’s airport owners and the airlines that use them – Qantas and Virgin in particular – over the pricing of airport operations. The gloves are definitely off. But setting aside the arguments around relative pricing power of monopolies vs duopolies, one quirk of the debate focuses around falling bond rates, and how this impacts the investment landscape. Continue…

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When it comes to investing, it can often pay dividends to zag when everyone else is zigging.  And that’s equally so when it comes to interest rates. At a time when everyone is assuming that rates will go to zero – and possibly beyond – it may be worth stepping back and pondering… what if they don’t? Continue…

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Is it just me?  Or have investors in loss-making US technology companies, like Uber, gone completely insane?  As a value investor, I see no good reason to fork out good money for businesses that have never made a profit, and possibly never will.  Continue…

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