One of my favourite finance books was given to me by Mark Carnegie after a meeting where we discussed markets and valuation.  That book is called The (Mis)behavior of Markets and its author was none other than Benoit Mandlebrot – the father of fractal theory. Continue…

by Roger Montgomery Posted in Investing Education.

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In what seems like the blink of an eye, the number of global internet users has just reached 3 billion – that’s just under half the estimated world population. And a third of the world owns a smartphone. The trends for activities like photo-sharing and e-commerce are just as explosive. Continue…

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Childcare operator, G8 Education (ASX: GEM), recently reported its first half 2016 results, and they were not inspiring. EBIT margins are deteriorating under the weight of rising wages and corporate overheads. We don’t yet see it as a repeat of the ABC Learning disaster, but we are keeping our eyes peeled. Continue…

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Sirtex Medical (ASX: SRX) has just reported its FY16 results, and they were pleasing on every metric. We recently commented on the firm’s sales growth which the market took the news badly and subsequently the price of the firm’s shares fell. Continue…

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With interest rates now at an all-time low, government bond markets have been perverted from a risk-free rate of return to a return-free rate of risk. This has never happened before. So how will it play out? The worrying answer is: nobody knows. Continue…

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