Australia still dragging its feet on climate change
Marc Hudson, University of Manchester A divided government firmly on the back foot ahead of a major climate conference, its green credentials shaky, and riven with bubbling tensions between those who want serious climate action and those resistant to it. Sound familiar? But the government I’m describing is not today’s version, but Bob Hawke’s federal…
18 Share Tips – 19 October 2015
Jeremy Hook, TMS Capital BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Origin Energy (ORG) Chart: Share price over the year The opportunity to buy four new shares at $4 each for every seven shares held at October 6 is one worth taking. The retail offer closes on October 26. By replenishing a stretched balance sheet, ORG has taken the necessary…
18 Share Tips – 5 October 2015
Jonathan Fernie, Lincoln Indicators BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Ramsay Health Care (RHC) Chart: Share price over the year The private hospital provider has operations in Australia, the UK, France and South East Asia. The company recently reported a strong fiscal year 2015 result with underlying earnings up by more than 20 per cent to $373 million. Looking…
18 Share Tips – 14 September 2015
Ravi Chauhan, Fat Prophets BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Spark New Zealand (SPK) Chart: Share price over the year Falling fixed line revenues are yesterday’s news. The company is successfully following a path of re-invention and delivering growth in other key areas, such as internet and cloud services. It’s opening up new frontiers for future profitability gains. We…
18 Share Tips – 17 August 2015
Michael Gable, Fairmont Equities BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Greencross (GXL) Chart: Share price over the year versus ASX200 (XJO) We recommended this veterinary clinic giant as a buy to thebull.com.au readers about a month ago when it was trading below $6. We believed it was oversold leading into full year results. With a recent top result showing…
18 Share Tips – 27 July 2015
Jon Fernie, Lincoln Indicators BUY RECOMMENDATIONS OzForex Group (OFX) Chart: Share price over the year versus ASX200 (XJO) Provides foreign exchange and online international payment services to consumer and business clients, with operations in Australia, New Zealand, Europe, North America and Asia. The company reported a solid full year result with growth across all divisions….
Housing (and home loan) affordability … again
By Wealth Foundations The “experts” claim housing is as affordable as it was in the 1980’s … We have discussed housing affordability, either directly or indirectly, in a number of previous articles e.g. “Are Australian house prices too high?” of August 2012. Our view of almost three years ago was that housing prices then were…
18 Share Tips – 13 July 2015
Jon Fernie, Lincoln Indicators BUY RECOMMENDATIONS REA Group (REA) Chart: Share price over the year versus ASX200 (XJO) While this online real estate classifieds business has retained a strong Australian market position, its expanded to the US and South East Asia. REA provided a solid third quarter trading update, with operating earnings up 30 per…
18 Share Tips – 6 July 2015
Simon Herrmann, wise-owl.com BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Crowd Mobile (CM8) Acquiring Netherlands-based technology company Track Concepts represents a transformational deal for Crowd Mobile by adding a strong earnings growth history and immediate scale. Crowd Mobile provides profitable exposure to the market for mobile software and services. We remain attracted to its established income profile and view the…
Measures of happiness tell us less than economics of unhappiness
John Quiggin, The University of Queensland This article is part of a series, On Happiness, examining what it means and how it might be achieved in the 21st century. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. – Tolstoy, Anna Karenina Money doesn’t buy you happiness, but it does…
