Content provided by Forager Funds There was no shortage of activity during the recent August reporting season. In today’s weekly video, Forager Australian Shares Fund Senior Analysts Alex Shevelev and Gaston Amoros share a few of the highlights relevant to the Fund. Insurance industry software provider Fineos (ASX:FCL) upgraded revenue growth expectations for the next financial year.…
SMSF & Property Series: Part 1 Written by Mary Simmons, Technical Manager, SMSF Association SMSF trustees’ love of property remains steady, with ATO statistics over the years confirming that residential and commercial property make up about 15% of all SMSF assets. This has been the case consistently over many years, even though the total value…
There is no question that investment returns this financial year have been extremely strong. In the early weeks of the new financial year, equity markets have set and reset records and of course there is plenty of commentary around why markets and certain sectors could continue to perform strongly as well as why there may…
Content provided by Thinktank Written by Per Amundsen, Head of Research, Thinktank Those thinking that life for the retail sector will return to normal after COVID need to think again. E-commerce has a 26-year track record – Amazon sold its first book online in 1995 – and globally the online retail market is expected to…
Content provided by Forager Funds The 2021 Forager Investor Roadshow enables investors to gain an overview of the past year. It was a great opportunity for the Forager team to provide investors with an overview of the past year, an outlook for next year and answer questions during a live Q&A. With the 2021 Financial…
Content provided by Thinktank Written by Per Amundsen, Head of Research, Thinktank The numbers are revealing. According to the consultancy firm Plan1, the non-bank lending sector’s slice of the commercial real estate debt market is set to grow rapidly over the next three years to an estimated $50 billion by 2024. As the banks, especially…
Content provided by VGI Partners VGI Partners is a global equity manager with concentrated strategies comprising long investments and short positions in Global, and Asian listed securities. With offices located in Sydney, New York, and Tokyo, VGI Partners offers two listed investment strategies: VGI Partners Global Investments (ASX: VG1) and VGI Partners Asian Investments (ASX:…
Content provided by Forager Funds It’s been a red hot market for initial public offerings (IPOs) during the first half of 2021, with IPO activity being at its highest in the last 10 years. While a lot of these listings have been in the mining space, as they often are in Australia, another area with…
In last month’s edition, we talked about buy, hold or sell concepts and in fact that buy and sell decisions may be the result of two investors having a different perspective on the same investment; as one sees it as a buy and the other a sell, as logic suggests that for every seller, there…
With a new financial year beginning, it is a perfect time to review your SMSF and give it a clean bill of health for the upcoming 12 months. The following list provides a series of considerations that you and your SMSF Specialist Advisor should review. 1. Take stock of your SMSF investment return and fees…