Top performers

Young investors are seemingly undeterred by the equity market volatility, according to share trading app Pearler. Pearler claims that on average, eight out of ten trades by its young customers are on the buy-side, versus two trades on the sell-side.

It’s time to start buying quality stocks that have fallen sharply over the last six months. This is the view held by Roger Montgomery, founder of Montgomery Investment Management. Given that valuations have come off, Montgomery believes investors have a far better chance of making attractive returns buying now; with one big caveat – that these businesses grow their earnings.

With markets starting to turn mildly positive, the driving factor seems to be cautious commentary from the RBA after several weeks of fuelling fears of a recession due to aggressive rate hikes.

Three new tiers will be added to Queensland’s coal royalty structure from July 1 as the Palaszczuk government attempts to take a bigger slice of the recent spike in coal prices.

With markets capitulating, cryptocurrencies sold off and the property market starting to dip, the widespread damage has been indiscriminate and unnerving. The ASX 200 Index is down 7 percent for the month and down 11 percent for the year to date. Many shares are now dipping below pre-pandemic levels but the market is still retaining the long term bull market trend.

After decades in the industry there are a few key characteristics that tend to stand-out and are best to look out for when assessing these new and emerging opportunities.

This year’s Financial Review Rich List was once led by the mining magnates, Gina Rinehart and Andrew ‘Twiggy’ Forrest together with Atlassian tech duo Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. The Pratts and Canva duo Melanie Perkins & Cliff Obrecht continued their dominance despite falling venture capital valuations. The list isn’t all that different from last…

Australia’s largest ETF provider, Betashares, has launched two new products designed to take advantage of the move to decarbonisation and renewable energy – BetaShares Solar ETF (ASX:TANN) and BetaShares Global Uranium ETF (ASX:URNM). The move comes just days after ETF competitor VanEck, announced it would launch a carbon credits ETF. The ETF will track the…

Jeremy Grantham’s “wild rumpus” appears to have well and truly begun. But it might only be the beginning of a gloomy period for markets. Jeremy Grantham, chief investment strategist of GMO and part-time prophet of doom, has been unusually quiet of late. One would expect the severe market dislocation we’ve been experiencing since the start…

Investing icon Warren Buffett once said, “Be fearful when others are greedy, and greedy when others are fearful”. And that’s exactly what he and his partner Charlie Munger have been doing. When markets were soaring over 2021, his holding company Berkshire Hathaway Inc (NYSE: BRK.A) was a net seller for five consecutive quarters. But since…

Inflation concerns continue to rattle markets with the RBA raising rates by 25bps at their May meeting to 35bps. Uncertainty throughout the month saw April fall by 0.8 percent bringing the total year to date (end of April) returns of the ASX 300 Accumulation Index to +10.2 percent. Ausbil Investment Management have released their Equity…

“Guess who’s back? Travel’s back, baby,” says the MD of Webjet, John Guscic. And travel is back, borders are open, and people are travelling overseas. The online flight booking company is cash-flow positive and in a much better position than it was six months ago. According to brokers, this week’s FY22 result was an improvement…