MCP Master Income Trust offers investors direct access to a diversified pool of Australian corporate debt. Alongside wholesale funds managed by MCP, the trust will lend directly to Australian corporate borrowers, and hold a diversified exposure of loans to Australian companies, diversified by borrower, industry and credit quality.
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Amcor now operates in 45 countries, including India, Malaysia, China and Argentina as well as countries in eastern Europe. The company is a play on global economic activity, but in a relatively resilient and defensive space. About one-third of revenue comes from the faster-growing emerging markets.
There’s a growing group of Australian services stocks doing excellent things in the global market, and Wellcom Group Limited (WLL) is certainly in that category. Wellcom is a global advertising and marketing creative production agency specialising in content creation and design. The company designs and produces advertising and marketing material for a wide range of customers who own brands, including household-name consumer goods and services businesses.
Read MoreHaving been listed on the Australian Securities Exchange and its predecessor bodies for 132 years, BHP is an icon of the stock market. Every investor understands – or should understand – that successful participation in the stock market requires a long-term view. Even people who have no interest whatsoever in the share market could, if asked to identify an Australian stock, instantly come up with one: BHP.
Read MoreThe turnaround at Treasury has seen the shares rise to levels just under $12, which capitalises the company at $8.8 billion and has delivered shareholders a return of 52% a year over the last three years.
Read MoreWith the imminent closure of the Hazelwood power station, there may not be much in the way of good economic news in Victoria’s Latrobe Valley at the moment, but the eponymous Latrobe Magnesium (LMG) hopes to change that.
Read MoreBroo is a highly speculative stock, but it has significant upside potential in the Chinese market if consumers go for the Kangaroo-adorned beer.
Read MoreEstablished in 2015, Afterpay has developed a frictionless payments technology that enables shoppers to ‘buy now, receive now, pay later,’ in a manner that avoids using credit cards, borrowing any money, or paying any upfront fees or interest.
Read MoreA listed investment company (LIC) with a difference is heading to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), with the imminent listing of Plato Income Maximiser Limited. While the Plato Income Maximiser is not the first income-oriented LIC on the exchange, it will be the first to target paying monthly franked dividends.
Read MoreCatapult provides elite sporting organisations and athletes with detailed, real-time data and analytics to monitor and measure athletes. The founders behind Catapult invented this technology category in the early 2000s, in partnership with the Australian Institute of Sport (AIS) to monitor and track the physiological performance of elite athletes.
Read MoreSpring Financial Group has grown steadily by expansion since listing in March 2015. The Financial Choice acquisition is Spring’s second major deal of 2017: the first was a revenue and equity-based JV with residential property manager Tessa Residential, to provide property management, letting agency and resale services to Spring’s clients.
Read MoreAustralia’s largest retailer of residential lighting and ceiling fans, Beacon Lighting Group (BLX), has followed a path on the share market in its listed life that is similar to several other small-cap floats in recent years: a successful debut, market euphoria, sudden disappointment through a profit downgrade, and price collapse.
Read MoreThe growth of SMSFs has given rise to a whole new industry, and this is where Class Limited (CL1) operates. Class develops cloud-based software solutions for the Australian wealth accounting market, specialising in software-as-a-service (SaaS) administration solutions that automate manual workloads, driving high levels of processing efficiency and scalability.
Read MoreThe business press may be full of stories indicating that retail is struggling in Australia, in the wake of an underwhelming Christmas season, but not every sector of the market is equally gloomy.
Read MoreLike many commodities, tin had a strong 2016, rising 60% in the second half of the year, mainly on the back of increased demand from Chinese economic stimulus encountering declining supply.
Read MoreHealthcare gives every indication of being an investment no-brainer: Australia’s ageing population will provide tailwinds for decades to come, boosting the demand for drugs, surgeries, hospital beds and services such as pathology and radiology.
Read MoreAustin has manufacturing facilities in Australia, Indonesia and South America. The Australian facilities make, assemble, repair and maintain (on and off-site) products used in the mining and resources sector, with the main product lines including customised dump truck bodies, water tanks, excavator buckets and materials handling equipment.
Read MoreSpecialist financial services company Pepper Group (PEP) enjoyed a five-month honeymoon on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) after its July 2015 listing, but 2016 was not kind to the stock.
Read MoreOne of the quirks of the Australian stock market this year was the rediscovery by a lot of investors of the “other” stock market – the one outside the S&P/ASX 100.
Read MoreIt’s summer in Australia, which for many of us means the beach and all the enjoyment associated with it. But even though it is a very big ocean that surrounds our continent – actually, there are three of them – it is a rare beachgoer that doesn’t succumb to at least a fleeting through of the creatures with which we share those oceans.
Read MoreIt’s been a long and occasionally tough road on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) for medical device maker Uscom (UCM), but the company is poised for profitability, with its three major product lines selling into world markets.
Read MoreThere’s no doubting that drones are one of the technologies of the 2010s so far. As advances in technology have made drones smaller and more accessible, their use, and potential applications is swelling all the time – for purposes both good and not-so-good.
Read More“Borrow short, lend long” is the banks’ mantra, but niche lender Investors Central has turned that around – it borrows long, and lends shorter.
Read MoreMint is arguably poised for big growth, and Asia is the focus of its attention. The addressable market is huge – the company says the global mPOS terminal market will grow at a compound annual growth rate of 32 per cent from 2015 to 2019.
Read MoreYet another example of world-class Australian-developed biotechnology that is having an impact on the global market is Genetic Signatures Limited (GSS). The company’s 3base molecular scanning technology platform offers a quicker and more effective method for detecting entire classes of microbial species, allowing it to screen for a wide range of pathogens and diseases. The technology can potentially address a very large global market for molecular diagnostics (MDx) of human disease.
Read MoreAustralian manufacturing is not dead. Not when the likes of Pental Limited (PTL) are still flourishing in business.
Read More“Listed law firm” is not a phrase to gladden the heart of an investor, after Slater & Gordon’s 98 per cent plunge in just 12 months – March 2015 to March 2016 – and Shine Corporate’s 80 per cent plunge from grace, which took just a few minutes on January 29 this year.
Read MoreIt’s a fairly obvious truth in the funds management world, but not everybody wants to try it: to beat the index, you have to have a portfolio that differs from the index.
Read MoreWith Australia experiencing, in common with many other developed countries, an ageing population, the aged care business is clearly one with good prospects. Aged care and retirement living is now a hot mini-sector on the stock market, as investors hone in on the companies that offer services to the estimated four million-plus Australians born between 1946 and 1961.
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