18 Share Tips – 23 September 2013
Carey Smith, Alto Capital BUY RECOMMENDATIONS QBE Insurance (QBE) Chart: Share price over the year to versus ASX200 (XJO) QBE has recovered from its multi-year low share price in November last year, and has now been in a solid uptrend for more than six months. Increasing long-term interest rates in the US and a weakening…
Existential risks to our planetary life-support systems
By Andrew Glikson We’re simply talking about the very life support system of this planet. – Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, chief climate advisor to the German Government It is not news that we are over stretching our planetary support systems: we have known for some time. In a 2009 keynote paper in Nature titled “A safe…
18 Share Tips – 9 September 2013
Peter Russell, Russell Research BUY RECOMMENDATIONS BigAir Group (BGL) Chart: Share price over the year to versus ASX200 (XJO) Small cap company BigAir owns and operates one of the largest fixed wireless broadband networks across our big cities and in some regional areas. Five years of record profits via acquisitions and organic growth have built…
18 Share Tips – 2 September 2013
Richard Batt, Shadforth Financial Group BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Primary Health Care (PRY) Chart: Share price over the year to versus ASX200 (XJO) PRY provides exposure to a portfolio of medical businesses with reliable earnings streams. It’s expected these business will continue to grow solidly over the longer term, as the company benefits from an ageing population…
How To Invest When Rates Hit Rock Bottom
One of the best investment books I’ve read this year, The Australian Guide to Fixed Income, by Fiig Securities, briefly outlines a few key strategies for when the economy and official cash rate reach the low point in the cycle – a topic that will becoming increasingly timely over the next 18 months. How to…
Takeover Targets – 7 Gold Miners Under Watch
Should gold stocks be lumped in with speculative resource stocks as risky investments to avoid? But what does that say about gold’s recent run up? The gold price dipped below $USD1200 per ounce in June but has been trending up ever since, currently sitting at USD$1371.90. The following chart from the ASX shows the movement…
The Dow 30 is the Greatest of All Ponzi Schemes
By Wim Grommen (with Lorimer Wilson) The Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Index – the oldest stock exchange in the U.S. and most influential in the world – consists of 30 companies and has an extremely interesting and distressing history regarding its beginnings, transformation and structural development which has all the trappings of what is…
18 Share Tips – 12 August 2013
Janine Cox, Wealth Within BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Bendigo and Adelaide Bank (BEN) Chart: Share price over the year to versus ASX200 (XJO) If looking to buy financial stocks outside the big four, it’s worthwhile looking at mid tier companies like BEN, Bank of Queensland and Challenger. Of these, Bendigo has been making some important technical moves,…
Property bubble? That’s the theory, anyway
By Philip Soos, Deakin University As Australian housing prices have boomed over the last decade and a half, there has been much discussion over whether a bubble exists in the residential property market. More recently, the concern is the record-low interest rate of 2.5% may cause a housing bubble. Conspicuously absent in the debate over…
18 Share Tips – 5 August 2013
Scott Marshall, Shaw Stockbroking BUY RECOMMENDATIONS Aurizon Holdings (AZJ) Chart: Share price over the year to versus ASX200 (XJO) AZJ has announced it could achieve EBIT margins of 30 per cent in the long term. In the short term, profit margin improvement will come from $230 million in centralised cost savings and productivity improvements. While…
