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What does outstanding stock picking look like?
Tim Kelley
February 22, 2018
Many readers will have some familiarity with the sorts of returns a successful stock-picker might aim to produce. Often, a fund will have an explicit target of beating the market by an amount of, say, 5 per cent per annum over rolling 5-year periods. While it doesn’t sound dramatic, this sort of extra return can compound into a very dramatic difference to investor wealth over long periods of time, and so it is very valuable. Continue…
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How worried should we be about higher home loan rates?
Scott Shuttleworth
February 22, 2018
Around $60 billion of interest-only loans are due to reset over the next four years. According to the Reserve Bank, that could create wider problems if the economy turns down.
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Money News 20.02.2018
Roger Montgomery
February 21, 2018
In this interview with Ross Greenwood on Money News I discussed the reporting season, one big company that is reporting tomorrow is Qantas. Listen to our view here.
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Why #MeToo is just the start of a major social change
Roger Montgomery
February 21, 2018
On Valentine’s Day 1967, American soul diva, Aretha Franklin, laid down a song that was to propel her to stardom – Respect. It was hailed as a civil rights anthem and turned her into a feminist icon. Fast forward 51 years, and we are now seeing the makings of a feminist tsunami that should make Aretha proud. Continue…
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Never say never
Lisa Fedorenko
February 20, 2018
In this week’s video insight Lisa provides an argument to challenge the phrase “I will never buy above valuation” and discusses three circumstances where it makes sense to buy above intrinsic value.
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Should Australia cut the corporate tax rate?
Andreas Lundberg
February 19, 2018
Right now, there’s a debate raging about the need to cut corporate tax rates in Australia. As usual, some of the arguments are overly simplified, if not misleading. The questions are: would a tax cut deliver the benefits spruiked by the government, and who would benefit the most? Let’s take a look. Continue…
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Beware the pitfalls of speculating on this market
Roger Montgomery
February 19, 2018
Most of us know of the volatility index, otherwise known as the VIX. But the inverse index – the XIV – was little known until a recent story surfaced about a trader who lost $4 million when the XIV lost 96 per cent of its value in one day. It was a sobering reminder that this bull market can’t roll on forever. Continue…
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