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Investors ready themselves for Covid-normal And just like that, this crazy year is almost over. As we head into Christmas, Melburnians will breathe a sigh of relief after a marathon lockdown is lifted and the state readies for a “COVID-normal Christmas” – whatever that is. While markets largely shrugged off the COVID effect, it’s been…

Initial Public Offering 101 If you have been reading any financial media, or even social media, at all throughout 2020, you likely get the feeling that the IPO market has been growing like crazy. This is something my colleague, Ishan Dan, has addressed in his article this week, called IPO market review – who delivered…

Four years ago, old high-school buddies Nicholas Quinn and Jesse Moors were taking in the sunshine at a café on Melbourne’s Southbank, when they decided to take their mutual interest in stock market investment to the next level. Quinn, a former PwC global tax specialist, and Moors, formerly a business development manager at CPA Australia,…

The term balanced fund has been somewhat maligned after being the core product of insurance salesmen throughout the 70s and 80s to the catch all for high and low risk superannuation options it is today. Yet with uncertainty comes opportunity, and a new breed of ‘balanced fund’ is emerging. The All-Weather portfolio, run by Melbourne-based…

The EU Taxonomy for Sustainable Activities In March 2018, the European Commission adopted an action plan on sustainable finance as part of a strategy to integrate environmental, social and governance considerations into its financial policy framework and mobilize finance for sustainable growth. In May 2018, the Commission released the first legislative package under the action…

Shares in consumer lending company Plenti (ASX: PLT) look to have stabilised, having tumbled 25% from the initial IPO price of $1.66. At the time of writing the share price sits at $1.28. Given the haircut applied to the stock in the secondary market, is Plenti worth a punt? Firstly, what does Plenti do? Formerly…

Notwithstanding the political and superannuation industry talk of an infrastructure-led economic recovery in Australia, and elsewhere, the listed infrastructure sector has been looking decidedly unloved of late. And much of the sector’s underperformance against the broader market this year has not been justified in terms of company earnings. Guiseppe Corona, the London-based head of global…

Robinhood is the clear leader in a new trading sector dubbed “commission-free” trading. Google backed the platform called and it was launched to offer share trading services free of charge. Robinhood first introduced this concept five years ago to entice new investors to move away from traditional online broking systems run by the major banks….