A Year In Review: How Did 2016 Go For New Floats?
More than ever, that depends who you talk to, even though the real answer is “pretty well”.
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4 Important Investor Takeaways From 2016
A lot of the lessons learned from 2016 have been painful, particularly the triumph of visceral voters in the UK and then the US over rational ones.
Read MoreOn Trump, Black Swans, and Retail Investors.
Every time I read about Black Swan events I smile and remember a visit a few years ago to Metung in Victoria’s Gippsland, where almost every bird on the lakes was a Black Swan. Thousands upon noisy thousands of them.
Read More1 Year Of Opening Up IPO’s To All Investors
Just over a year ago the newly installed Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull helped launch OnMarket’s mobile phone app for individuals looking to buy into IPOs.
Read MoreLocking The Public Out Of IPOs
It’s a weird situation out there at the moment for individuals who invest in new sharemarket floats, with the floats themselves going very well but with the prospect of a change in ASX’s listing rules coming down the pipe that could make life harder for them.
Read MoreWhose Advice Should You Take When Investing?
If you ever wanted to find an investment topic that proves investors’ decision making is scarily random, this one might be it.
Read More5 Questions To Ask When You Are Shown An IPO Prospectus
It’s important to figure out whether a company that is about to list is a good investment proposition. Here are five questions to ask when you are presented with a Prospectus.
Read MoreThe New Trend In Voluntary Superannuation Contributions
There’s a worrying new trend happening in superannuation that no one seems to have noticed: the amount of post-tax money that Self-Managed Super Fund savers have been putting away was approximately 10 per cent lower in the June quarter 2016 than it was in the same quarter last year.
Read MoreWhy Investing In Every IPO Is A Great Strategy
There’s something about being offered access to an IPO that might remind you of taking your first dive into a swimming pool. Is it going to be cold? Are you going to flail then drop like a rock to the bottom of the pool and become an unfortunate statistic?
Read MoreBigger Is Not Always Better
One of the classic investing maxims is that bigger is better. When it comes to some kinds of investing, the reverse can sometimes be true.
Read More5 Investment Tools That I Can’t Live Without
There are plenty of new investing tools that are out there for the DIY investor. Andrew Main runs us through the 5 investment tools that he can’t live without.
Read MoreThe Best Performing Sector In The Market?
New sharemarket floats in Australia enjoyed an average price increase of almost 34 per cent in the second quarter of 2016, according to new research from the IPO access portal OnMarket.
Read MoreASX IPO Rule Changes – are retail investors to be worse off?
Industry experts have their say on what the proposed ASX IPO rule changes mean for retail investors. Will retail investors be better off or worse off as a result? Have your say by voicing your opinion.
Read MorePost Budget, Pre Election – Where To Now For SMSFs?
In the wake of the recent Budget and with an election looming – What are the Government and the ALP’s policy plans for your SMSF? Here is the latest.
Read MoreDon’t Be Put Off By Tech Floats As Long As You Understand What They Do
If you’re not looking at putting some money to work in the crop of new mainly tech-based IPOs coming onto the market, you are passing up what could be a significant opportunity.
Read MoreBudget 2016: How to Adjust Your Super Strategy
If, like me, you assumed Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison was going to go easy on well-established superannuation savers in the Budget, you likely share my slightly queasy feeling. It turns out we’re more alone that we first thought and that a changing landscape may call for a change in strategy.
Read MoreWhy You Shouldn’t Believe Everything You Read About IPOs
“ASIC cracks whip on IPO hopefuls” was one recent headline in the Australian Financial Review, on the same day (April 19) that a story in another part of the newspaper carried the headline “Investors warned to be wary of overpriced floats.”
Read MoreWhy Do New Floats Outperform?
Companies that joined the ASX lists in the first quarter returned considerably more than the Top 200 companies.
Read MoreThe LIC Revival: What You Need To Know
One category of investment product that’s been powering ahead despite the recent market volatility is the Listed Investment Company, or LIC.
Read MoreThe Case For Contrarian Investing
There’s a lot to be said for being a contrarian investor: someone who buys stocks when other investors are scrambling to sell.
Read MorePrivate Equity Exits: To Invest or Not To Invest?
Following my article arguing Why You Should Be Investing In IPOs, one astute ShareCafe reader responded with the following question: “If I buy shares in an IPO that represents an exit by a private equity group, will I be comprehensively done over?”
Read MoreWhy You Should Be Investing In IPOs
For a nation of 24 million allegedly adventurous humans, Australians are surprisingly cagey about investing in IPOs. Why?
Read MoreWelcome To The Future Of Investing
It’s usually hard to identify which particular financial sector innovation represents a game changer or even a significant milestone, but the creation of a technology that allows you to bid directly for stock in an Initial Public Offering (IPO) from your phone has to stake a solid claim.
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