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Some recent success stories in Small Caps Two recent successes in iSignthis Ltd (ISX) and PolyNovo (PNV). Results this week have galvanised ISX – a know-your-customer (KYC) provider of ID authentication – and it hit new all-time highs of 121.5c. The recent deal it has done with Visa has been the power behind the rally.…
What are you actually buying? Now that we know how the stock market was born, let’s have a look at what it actually means to own a share. Stocks, shares, equities, securities. Lots of different words for a slice of the pie. We hear the words, see the news and buy the codes, but what…
The Birth of the Stock Market Us modern day investors can buy and sell stocks at the click of a button. We can see the price and details of any stock in the world with a quick google search and can get our rolling market fix daily through tv, radio or online news sources. But…
The question of existence has fascinated students of philosophy for centuries. In the fifteenth century Rene Descartes produced the famous philosophical conclusion “cogito ergo sum”. Or in English “I think therefore I am”. My wife has been thinking a lot of late, particularly about the Tax Office web site. She’s been talking to them too,…
The press are carrying articles today talking about the performance of the biggest Super Funds. Here are the biggest 20 funds by size showing the size, number of Members, average balance and growth in member numbers or otherwise. I know there is this generally accepted view that fund managers always underperform and if you look…
Listed Investment Companies, known as LICs, are effectively a managed fund with the main difference being that they are traded on the ASX like a share instead of being unlisted and traded through the fund manager’s administration system. So for one trade, on the ASX, through an LIC, you can buy a portfolio of shares…
WHAT IS SHORTING Each week ASIC publishes a list of stocks that have been “Sold short”. In basic terms it means stocks that have been sold by people who don’t own them. It is not that easy to genuinely short a stock. You can do something similar through CFD accounts, but I wouldn’t deal with…
Grandkids Folio. It was fascinating to read Henrys response to the ‘Ask Henry’ question about setting up a folio for a grandchild. We’ve ‘been there and done that’ and can totally support Henry’s advice. We set up a folio for our grandchildren quite some time ago. We looked at structures where they would be joint…
