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The Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) annual letter to shareholders is must reading for any investor or financial professional. Despite nearing 100 years of age, both Buffett and his business partner Charlie Munger remain as astute and knowledgeable as they have ever been. Their annual letter is not without a few ‘whacks’, highlighting some of the excesses…

Gold as an inflation hedge? It’s a well-known investment strategy to buy gold during times of war and rising inflation. A risk that’s at the top of every investor’s mind today. Inflation has emerged as a primary concern for investors. And so, investors look to protect against it. With markets still battling COVID, rising inflation,…

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are still as popular as ever, especially among retail investors who continue to drive the sector to record highs. According to Morningstar’s ETF Year-End Review 2021, Australian ETFs hit a dizzying high after recording a massive 23.9% increase in total assets, to $117 billion. It was led by strong-performing Australian equities pumping…

CIMIC (ASX:CIM) – Shares in the multi-national building and engineering contractor surged last week, with CIMIC up 30 per cent on the back of an overseas takeover bid to mop-up one of Australia’s largest construction companies. The Spanish giant ACS, has lobbed a $1.5bn bid to end CIMIC’s long-running history on the ASX (as Leighton…

ASX shares have been reporting some impressive growth numbers today. Here are five ASX shares that caught my eye and I’ll be watching going forward. 1. Whispir Ltd (ASX: WSP) Communication platform Whispir – which assists governments and companies communicate with stakeholders – recorded a 70.4% uplift in revenue for the first half of FY22. The business is…

Pure Hydrogen (ASX:PH2) – With Hydrogen being pitched as the miracle fuel to solve all our climate change issues a flurry of small cap hydrogen stocks have emerged, ready to capitalise on the massive interest in the sector and its underlying technology. Pure Hydrogen came together in early 2021 via a merger of Real Energy…

The Coles Group Ltd (ASX: COL) share price is in focus after the supermarket business reported its FY22 half-year result. Coles HY22 result Coles reported several financial metrics for investors to look at: Sales revenue grew 1% to $20.6 billion EBITDA down 2.2% to $1.76 billion EBIT down 4.4% to $975 million Net profit after tax down 2% to $549 million…

The Fear and Greed Index is a tool that investors in traditional sharemarkets have used for decades to measure the current sentiment of the market. It has only recently been applied to crypto markets, which seem more sentiment-driven than any. The index looks at cryptocurrency markets and assesses whether they are becoming overly fearful or…

Australia’s premier iron ore miner, Fortescue Metals Group (ASX:FMG) has posted its interim result, for the December 2021 half, with an underlying net profit of US$2.78 billion, which was a touch above an expected $2.70 billion. Here are the highlights: Total revenue of US$8.1 billion, down 13% (H1 FY22 US$9.3 billion) Underlying earnings before interest,…

An army of ASX shares has been updating the market today with their first-half results for FY22. Here are the seven I like the look of and are on my watch list. Keep up to date with the February 2022 reporting season calendar. 1. EML Payments Ltd (ASX: EML) The EML share price has fallen…

The Nasdaq 100 powered to all-time highs last year, driven by the famous “FANG+” stocks. Nasdaq Total Returns While making up just nine of the 100 stocks in the Nasdaq, the ten FANG+ stocks – Facebook (now called Meta Platforms, which ruins the acronym a touch), Amazon, Apple, Nvidia, Netflix, Google (which trades under the…

The proliferation of data and information has done little to improve the outcomes for self-directed investors. With information on almost any issue and a social media system built to reinforce our own beliefs or views in many cases, making sound investment decisions has never been harder. As an experienced financial adviser, I like to think…