Canaccord Genuity Capital Markets has released its ‘Australian Best Ideas’ publication, which contains the firm’s top 23 stock picks across a diverse group of sectors including Mining Services, Consumer and Retail, Industrials, Health and Wellness, Sustainability, Metals and Mining and Technology, Media and Telecom. Each stock pick in the report provides a summary of each…
According to award-winning fund manager Hyperion Asset Management, the key to successful investing is to “maintain a portfolio of stocks that are robust and resilient, even in downturns and difficult economic environments.” The team employs their resources in search of four key attributes when researching companies that will determine quality from rubbish. By investing in…
Bell Potter have released their top stock picks for FY22. In the report, the broker has listed ten sectors and selected 2-3 stocks in each sector that it thinks should do well over the coming year. The sectors include listed investment companies, agricultural & FMCG, technology, discretionary retail, industrials, engineering and construction, healthcare, resources, energy,…
A few months ago, the Californian Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) passed ground-breaking regulations authorising two new programs to allow driverless ride-hailing. Whilst the world is still yet to get its head around driverless vehicles, California is miles ahead and has long been ground zero for autonomous vehicle testing for quite some time. The CPUC who…
Last week Capgemini released the 25th anniversary edition of its 2021 World Wealth Report (WWR). The wealth study is considered the oldest and most-referenced wealth study that looks at global wealth in the last year and high-net-worth individual (HNWI) trends and influences from the last quarter-century. A high-net-worth individual (HNWI) is somebody with around US$1…
Aussie start-up XREF (ASX:XF1) is an online candidate referencing workflow tool that allows employers to professionally conduct pre-employment reference checks on suitable candidates. Xref transforms reference-checking to add strategic value to the hiring process, while saving time and money for employers and protecting them from breaches of privacy, discrimination and reference fraud. It’s a tool…
2019-20 was a dormant year for the IPO market. Unforgiving and callous, even promising companies with decent runs on the board were stopped dead in their tracks. Latitude Financial, Property Guru, Retail Zoo and in the US, Ferretti, and We Company, all had their IPO plans pulled. In part it was a weaker global economy,…
It’s been an IPO bonanza both here and abroad. With the vast amounts of stimulus injected into the global economy, companies have been lining up to list, with more than 40 companies scheduled to list on the ASX in just the next two months. However, with so many companies eager to raise capital, the local…
As the old idiom goes, “Out with the old, in with the new.” Fund managers across the board are doing just that. Despite experiencing solid returns and a stellar year, many managers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the way their LICs trade. Despite achieving market-beating returns, there are a significant number of LICs that persistently…
The global pandemic brought the world to its knees, decimating economies in its path, not sparing a single country. It left behind a global recession and mountains of debt. Australia was one of the lucky countries, that successfully worked out how to beat the virus. Even still, Covid-19 and its forced lockdowns had a devastating…
