Goldcorp-Newmont Deal Points To More M&A
Ahead of the Herd’s Rick Mills suggest investors should be on alert for more M&A in the junior gold space.
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Magellan Financial, Simply The Best?
Wealth manager Magellan Financial’s fund flows stood out in the December quarter and a better outlook has prompted several brokers to review their ratings.
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Slowing Kmart Dents Wesfarmers Retail Crown
Wesfarmers CEO Rob Scott faces a choice that could well define his time at the helm of the company. The company’s remaining retail business (after the Coles spin-off in late 2018) might be about to stutter with the news that the once might Kmart department store chain had stumbled in the six months to December.
Read MoreAirlie Funds Management Discuss Nick Scali (ASX: NCK)
In this video, Matt Williams from Airlie Funds Management gives Informed Investor some insights into what’s been happening at Australian furniture importer and retailer Nick Scali (ASX: NCK).
Read MoreHow Superior Gene Selection High Reproductive Rates Enable AFF To Produce Premium Lamb Products
While Dorper sheep were first bred in South Africa in the 1940s, it is only recently that their superior characteristics have begun to be recognised internationally, and the agricultural industry has begun to take advantage
Read MoreThe Best & Worst ASX Shares Of 2018
The big four banks and AMP dominated the market, as usual, thanks to the Hayne Royal Commission. Aftertouch Pay, the buy now, pay later company was a standout performer while BHP saw a 15% gain for its shares.
Read More2018 Marks The Worst Year For US Shares In A Decade
Wall Street rose on the last day of 2018, marking the end of the worst year for major US sharemarkets for a decade.
Read MoreDNR Capital Talk About ARB Corporation (ASX:ARB)
In this Informed Investor video Sam Twidale, Portfolio Manager at DNR Capital explains why the sell-off in ARB Corporation Limited might be overdone (ASX:ARB).
Read MoreInvesting For Income? You Are Doing It All Wrong
Many share investors are looking for yield. They need dividends to live off. However, many income investors are left frustrated by their share portfolio
Read MoreBelligerent Shareholders Strike Out At Banks
Now for the AMP next May after three of the four big banks took hits from upset shareholders at annual meetings in November and December.
Read MoreBega’s Big Expansion Plans Sour
Bega Cheese shares fell under $5 on Wednesday for the first time in two years after the drought brought its expansion up short.
Read More2018: Small Caps In Review
2018 began with bundles of promise for small-cap investors, but ended in misery interspersed with some rare delights. Your columnist trawls through his coverage for the highlight and lowlights and highlights potential opportunities for 2019.
Read MoreAustralian Listed Real Estate Tables
FNArena provides a weekly update of Australian listed real estate trusts (REIT) and property developers, current pricing yield and valuation data.
Read MoreAust Pharma In New Push To Merge With Sigma
Australian Pharmaceutical Industries (API) has made a fresh push for a merger with the struggling Sigma Healthcare (SIP), revealing it had made a $700 million offer to Sigma’s board in October.
Read MoreKiwi Central Bank Set Force Big Four Banks To Boost Capital Reserves
Australia’s big four banks, already reeling from a stagnant home loan market and revenues, the fallout from the Hayne Royal Commission and censure from upset shareholders, now face more financial problems in their most profitable offshore market – New Zealand.
Read MoreTin Miners Set For Better Times In 2019?
Tin might be one of the world’s most strategic metals, but it’s not reflected in the price of the commodity. But with supply issues looming, this could well change in 2019.
Read MoreNAB, ANZ Set To Face Shareholder Revolt
Westpac was on Wednesday, it will be the turn of NAB and ANZ next Wednesday to feel the wrath of shareholder displease over the revelations at the Hayne royal commission.
Read MoreACCC Concerns Spark TPG Sell-Off
TPG Telecom shares took a hammering yesterday after the competition watchdog, the ACCC revealed problems it has with the proposed merger with rival telco, Vodafone Hutchison Australia.
Read MoreSonic Healthcare Expands With US Pathology Deal
Sonic Healthcare is raising $600 million in an accelerated placement to big shareholders and plans to ask small shareholders for another $100 million to help pay for its $750 million purchase of US group Aurora Diagnostics.
Read MoreTrade Me Ticks British Takeover
New Zealand website business, Trade Me has accepted a slightly higher offer from European private equity giant, Apax Partners, and subject to there being no higher rival offers, will become foreign-controlled.
Read MoreShareholders Whack Down Westpac Over Bonuses
Westpac has suffered a stunning vote of no confidence in the bank board and management at a level we have seldom seen in Australia.
Read MoreThe Season of Sustainability Reports
The annual report season is quickly followed by the annual sustainability report season and this year there seem to be more sustainability reports than usual.
Read MoreAustralian Gold Stocks And The Commonwealth Takeover
Marin Katusa of Katusa Research suggests Australian gold miners are in the market for North American acquisitions.
Read MoreCBA Flags New Royal Commission Provision
More red ink for the banks from the royal commission disclosures and associated scandals with the CBA revealing a new $350 million impact to its December 31 half-year earnings from a series of new costs.
Read MoreIntermin & MacPhersons In WA Gold Merger
The marriage banns continue to be posted for more and more of WA’s junior gold miners tiddlers, Intermin Resources and MacPhersons Resources planning a $60 million all paper hook-up.
Read MoreQBE Warns On Profit “Headwind”
QBE Insurance shares took a bit of a hit yesterday after it released a strategy update that confused some investors.
Read MoreFinancials, Weak China Data Spark New ASX Sell-Off
After the ASX overnight futures market on Saturday was signally a 30 point fade at the start of trading in Australia yesterday, no one could have foreseen the nasty 2.3% slump in the index as bank investors took fright at the move by APRA.
Read MoreTelstra Tops Rivals In 5G Spectrum Auction
Telstra, Optus and TPG/Vodafone were the winning big bidders in the latest auction of Australia’s new 5G mobile network spectrum which raised $853 million for the federal government.
Read MoreIOOF Execs Step Down To Battle APRA
Shares in stricken wealth manager IOOF Holdings lost another 7% yesterday after its CEO and chairman stepped down to fight moves by APRA, the prudential regulator to disqualify them from managing superannuation funds.
Read MoreBoQ Dumps Insurance Sale To Embattled Freedom
Bank of Queensland has become yet another financial whose business has been disrupted by the impact of revelations from the Hayne Royal Commission.
Read MoreAdelaide Brighton In Profit Warning
Shares in cement maker Adelaide Brighton Ltd slid more than 9% on Friday to a 29-month low after it became yet another industrial company to downgrade earnings for 2018 or 2019.
Read MoreAPRA Action Sends IOOF Shares Into Free-Fall
Shares in IOOF Holdings were hammered on Friday after APRA, the banking and insurance regulator shocked the market with moves to disqualify the troubled wealth manager’s top executives and impose new, restrictive license conditions.
Read MoreFree-Falling Freedom Insurance In Battle To Survive
Shares in the struggling Freedom Insurance Group’s fell out of bed yesterday after the company warned it could be facing a probe from regulators, liquidity strain in 2019 and a multi-million dollar customer remediation bill.
Read MoreTissue Sale Sends Asaleo Surging
A lifeline for struggling tissue and personal products maker Asaleo Care with the news it will sell will sell its low margin Australian consumer tissue business sending the shares surging 46% to, 91 cents and the close.
Read MoreFonterra Q1 Sours, Lowers Milk Price Range Again
NZ dairy giant, Fonterra has downgraded its 2018-19 forecast Farmgate Milk Price range for a second time in as three months as global prices and demand remain weaker than forecast.
Read MoreNickel West Restart Adds To Resources Revival
A couple of years ago, Nickel West was on the for sale list at BHP. This week BHP’s Nickel West division said ‘go’ to the first of a number of new mining developments in the northern Goldfields of WA after the State Government signed off on the Venus underground nickel mine near Leinster.
Read MoreLynas Shares Crash On Malaysian Review
Shares in rare earths processor, Lynas Corp were smashed, losing more than a quarter of their value at one stage after the Malaysian government said it would impose tough new conditions on its licence to operate in the country.
Read MoreNew Bidder In Battle For Trade Me
Kiwi trading website Trade Me Group has managed to get something of a bidding auction going.
Read MoreAnsell Embarks On Efficiency Drive
While Ansell is targeting savings by closing three manufacturing facilities, raw material costs remain the key risk for the earnings outlook.
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