Investing 101

The Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) annual letter to shareholders is must reading for any investor or financial professional. Despite nearing 100 years of age, both Buffett and his business partner Charlie Munger remain as astute and knowledgeable as they have ever been. Their annual letter is not without a few ‘whacks’, highlighting some of the excesses…

Gold as an inflation hedge? It’s a well-known investment strategy to buy gold during times of war and rising inflation. A risk that’s at the top of every investor’s mind today. Inflation has emerged as a primary concern for investors. And so, investors look to protect against it. With markets still battling COVID, rising inflation,…

Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are still as popular as ever, especially among retail investors who continue to drive the sector to record highs. According to Morningstar’s ETF Year-End Review 2021, Australian ETFs hit a dizzying high after recording a massive 23.9% increase in total assets, to $117 billion. It was led by strong-performing Australian equities pumping…

CIMIC (ASX:CIM) – Shares in the multi-national building and engineering contractor surged last week, with CIMIC up 30 per cent on the back of an overseas takeover bid to mop-up one of Australia’s largest construction companies. The Spanish giant ACS, has lobbed a $1.5bn bid to end CIMIC’s long-running history on the ASX (as Leighton…

Expert investment consultant Angela Ashton of Evergreen Consultants has flagged a return to traditional asset classes amid the first major armed conflict in many years. Commenting on Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine, she looks at history as a guide, highlighting that “markets often sell-off in the lead up to an armed conflict but tend to…

ASX shares have been reporting some impressive growth numbers today. Here are five ASX shares that caught my eye and I’ll be watching going forward. 1. Whispir Ltd (ASX: WSP) Communication platform Whispir – which assists governments and companies communicate with stakeholders – recorded a 70.4% uplift in revenue for the first half of FY22. The business is…

Pure Hydrogen (ASX:PH2) – With Hydrogen being pitched as the miracle fuel to solve all our climate change issues a flurry of small cap hydrogen stocks have emerged, ready to capitalise on the massive interest in the sector and its underlying technology. Pure Hydrogen came together in early 2021 via a merger of Real Energy…

The Coles Group Ltd (ASX: COL) share price is in focus after the supermarket business reported its FY22 half-year result. Coles HY22 result Coles reported several financial metrics for investors to look at: Sales revenue grew 1% to $20.6 billion EBITDA down 2.2% to $1.76 billion EBIT down 4.4% to $975 million Net profit after tax down 2% to $549 million…

This most simple of quotes is likely to be tested in the coming months after what can only be described as a bumper year for commodities. Seen as one of the few true inflation hedges, professional and amateur investors have been pouring into everything from energy to iron ore, lithium and rare earths in the…

The Fear and Greed Index is a tool that investors in traditional sharemarkets have used for decades to measure the current sentiment of the market. It has only recently been applied to crypto markets, which seem more sentiment-driven than any. The index looks at cryptocurrency markets and assesses whether they are becoming overly fearful or…

Global asset manager, Nanuk Asset Management, which specialises in sustainability, presented its “Hydrogen or Hamburgers” webinar to investors last week. It was an interesting take on some of the confronting issues, such as the global efforts to address climate change and the realisation that technologies like solar, wind and batteries have widely become a success,…

After collecting dust for almost a year, neobank Douugh (ASX:DOU) has been quietly positioning itself to take over the world with its cutting-edge global fintech technology. It’s been roughly a year since the company listed on the ASX and in that time the neobank has garnered significant interest in its full-service fintech banking app. Douugh…