In this week’s video insight, Sean Sequeira and I discuss the strategic decisions within the mining sector, highlighted by BHP’s latest bid for Anglo American. This move, part of a broader trend of significant acquisitions, could reshape the competitive landscape by boosting BHP’s (ASX:BHP) production in iron ore, copper, and metallurgical coal. We also explore how other industry giants like Rio Tinto (ASX:RIO) are positioning themselves amidst these shifts, focusing on internal growth and strategic asset management. Join us as we delve into these developments and their implications for the global mining industry. Continue…

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I had the pleasure of joining Adam Keily on the ‘Equity Mates’ podcast, where we had a great discussion about ten noteworthy stocks that are currently catching my eye. These picks span across a variety of sectors, domestic and global and include both small caps and larger companies. 
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I had the pleasure of joining Canna Campbell and Michael Thompson on the Fear and Greed podcast. In this episode, we present the ultimate beginner’s guide to buying shares. We explore essential topics such as adopting an investor’s mindset, sourcing quality investing information, and identifying companies with value and growth potential. I explain the importance of viewing shares as businesses and how to distinguish between high-quality and low-quality companies by analysing their annual reports. Additionally, we discuss my views on the role of diversification within an investment portfolio. 
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Baby boomers won the genetic lottery in so many ways, not just because a whole chicken in 1973 was $1.09 (Figure 1).  

Take Wayne, for example, born in Sydney in 1945 after World War II. As a teenager, he lands a job earning the national award wage of £13.80 per week. He changes his mind after a couple of years and decides to study engineering. University is free (no HECS), so he continued to work part-time while at university and became an engineer in 1965, earning the average wage of £1,145 per year.    Continue…

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For almost a decade, I have described Australian residential property owners as a “protected species”; Whether we look at the banks, the banking system in its entirety, regulators, including the Australia Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), the government and even individual politicians – many of whom own multiple residential investment properties – nobody wants to see property prices fall.  Continue…

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As you have probably garnered by now, I am optimistic about the prospects for equity markets for the remainder of 2024 and for all of 2025. I believe a process of risk adoption is underway, reversing the conservative stance that dominated sentiment in 2022 and most of 2023 amid fears of rising interest rates and recession. With the subsequent side-stepping of recession along with the acceptance that rates have probably peaked, and with slow deflation continuing, investor appetite for risk can begin to improve.   Continue…

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Investors understand the power of demographic information. Back in the early 1990s, when I was presenting to investors at ASX-sponsored conferences, I recall ‘time-lining’ the baby boomers and predicting – reasonably successfully, I might add – what industries the boomers would have a substantial impact on.   Continue…

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Over the period since the global financial crisis beginning in 2008, the U.S. Federal Reserve (Fed) has seen the yield on three-month treasury bills trade at a premium relative to the U.S. consumer price index (CPI) for less than 5 per cent of the 16.5 year period in question.   Continue…

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