Junior Gold Mining Stocks Poised To Surge
The junior gold miners’ stocks have spent recent months mostly languishing near major multi-year lows. That spawned a sentiment wasteland riddled by bearishness and bereft of bids. But these companies’ battered stock prices aren’t fundamentally righteous, as proven yet again by their latest earnings season. Faring far better in a challenging third quarter than stock…
The Secrets To A Successful Retirement
Your financial resources are the best predictor of a successful retirement… As financial planners, we are heavily focused on our clients being financially well prepared for the retirementthey desire. And, the psychological research that we discuss in this article suggests that the adequacy of your financial resources is the most important indicator of a successful adjustment…
Baby Bunting taking bigger growth steps
I fondly recall buying baby goods (or watching my wife buy them) before the birth of our children. Like many expectant parents, we bought new rather than used baby goods, sought advice from a specialist retailer and later regretted buying too much.The pricey baby-heart monitor seemed like a good idea at the time, but was…
Why we should leave super at 9.5%
It’s conventional wisdom that Australians don’t save enough for retirement. Most workers themselves think they won’t have enough to retire on, and their concerns are rising. But the conventional wisdom is wrong. Our new report, Money In Retirement: More Than Enough shows that most people who are actually retired feel more comfortable financially than the…
Qualitative Analysis of Shares – Looking Beyond the Numbers
All newcomers to share market investing quickly learn that the most widely used strategy for share picking is fundamental analysis. Regardless of whether you are an aggressive high-risk growth investor or a conservative and cautionary value investor, you want to invest in shares of a company that you can judge to be fundamentally sound. In…
Falling Aussie dollar to weigh on interest rates decision
By Timo Henckel, Australian National University The CAMA RBA Shadow Board is a project by the Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, based at the ANU, which asks industry and academic economists what interest rate the Reserve Bank of Australia should set. After lingering around the US93 cents mark for several months, the Aussie dollar recently…
Cheap Stocks With Earnings Tailwind From Low Aussie Dollar
The race is on to find stocks that will benefit from a lower Australian dollar as broking firms busily downgrade currency forecasts and update valuations for companies with offshore currency exposure. Macquarie Equities Research this week trimmed its medium-term forecasts for the Australian dollar by an average 11 per cent across 2013 to 2017. The…
6 Stocks to Benefit from Technology Trends
Throughout history investors have benefited handsomely from getting onboard stgeloping trends that have the capability to transform the way things are done. Perhaps more so than in any other contemporary field, information technology has produced disruptive technologies at a dizzying pace. Over the past few years analyst firms like Deloitte, Accenture, and McKinsey have produced…
Lifescience looks a sector to target in 2014
Freelancer Ltd’s soaring sharemarket debut has sparked predictions of a rush of information technology floats and further gains in small tech stocks in 2014. Less considered has been stunning rallies in several small lifescience stocks and the prospect of a breakout year for biotech. ASX-listed biotech stocks gained an average 53 per cent last year,…
The Graphene Promise – Disruptor or Disrupted
What’s the “next big thing” to hit the market? This question has tantalized rabid investors in search of the big payoff since forever. Next big thing candidates typically are involved in business operations that have the potential to make a significant impact on the way things get done in the world. Many are technology firms. …
