The Conference of Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), or “COP26” as it’s commonly known, is a fortnight-long series of conferences between global leaders to discuss their climate commitments, and ways to combat climate change. There are 197 countries that will attend and review their progress on climate action carried…
Structured products platform Stropro has launched a new product suited for the income-seeking investor. With global cash rates at near-zero and minuscule bond yields, conditions for income investors have gone from bad to worse. The return on cash in some cases is even negative after inflation. The only place to go for yield is up…
Hedge fund manager Cosmos Asset Management has joined the crypto race, listing an exchange-traded fund loaded with crypto-mining and infrastructure companies. The ETF will give Australian investors the opportunity to gain exposure to the sector, without actually holding cryptocurrencies. The ETF will be listed on Chi-X Australia as the Cosmos Global Digital Miners Access ETF…
Investor focus seems to have shifted back to the agricultural space following the release of two Government announcements which have highlighted the sector as a profitable era for farmers and potential growth opportunity for investors. The Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Sciences (ABARES) has given an optimistic outlook for the agricultural sector,…
Going by much of the press coverage on Evergrande (HKG: 3333), China’s second biggest property developer, it would appear that the world was teetering on the brink of another Global Financial Crisis. The company is desperately scrambling to push through a last-minute deal that will save it from formal default. However media pundits have been…
And just like that, Australia has joined the rest of the world in committing to be carbon-neutral, that is, in a net-zero-emissions state by 2050. While it may have taken a lot of toing and froing, we’re here. And it’s a big deal. According to research firm Climate Analytics, “Australia is often ranked as having…
Reading the media headlines this morning, “Is Crown too big to fail in Melbourne” and “Crown lucky to escape the Victorian Royal Commission with its licence intact,” was enough to recognise the power that Crown Casino still yields in Victoria, despite being brought to its knees by a Royal Commission hell-bent on making the casino…
The first Bitcoin ETF launched this week after ETF provider ProShares submitted an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) last Friday for a Bitcoin Futures ETF. The filing for the Bitcoin Strategy ETF points to a rollout of the fund ending a long-winded approval process that started back out in 2013 and…
These are the top five stocks for the reopening of Australia post-Covid lockdowns: Helloworld (ASX:HLO) Lion Energy (ASX:LIO) Crown Resorts (ASX:CWN) Event Entertainment (ASX:EVT), Scentre Group (ASX:SCG) Victorians, already suffering from the harshest lockdown laws in the world, will finally enjoy a bit of respite with a modest easing to rules kicking in over the…
China’s economic growth has gone from bad to worse – on the Middle Kingdom’s lofty statistical standards, that is – after official data showed that third-quarter GDP came in at 4.9 per cent annual, short of the expected 5.0 per cent predicted by analysts. It was also three percentage points lower than the 7.9 per…
