Family owned ASX companies are a rare breed. We're not talking about companies who had one or two founders who are still involved today but the company is still controlled by the same generation. We're talking about companies that have been in the same family for multiple decades, often multiple generations.
Such companies offer the advantage…
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The 50% CGT discount on shares is one of the key mechanisms that helps investors keep as much of their cash as they have earned on their investments. We felt that it was time to write a stand-alone article about this in light of the inflation crisis and how it could lead to investors seeking…
When we last wrote about Black Cat Syndicate (ASX:BC8) in December 2023, the company had just secured a A$60m equity investment from Chinese industry investors — a pivotal moment for a developer that had spent years assembling a multi-asset gold portfolio in Western Australia. Since then, BC8 has graduated from developer to producer, achieved first…
Knowing how to read a balance sheet is a key skill investors need to know, because the balance sheet is the most underrated document in an annual report. Most new investors skip straight to earnings - perhaps not knowing how importance the balance sheet is or having an appreciate but not knowing how to read…
In this era, every company is trying to position itself as an AI play - even jewellery retailer Michael Hill (ASX:MHJ). Given the leadership vacuum with the deaths of former CEO Daniel Bracken and Sir Michael Hill, not to mention the subdued consumer environment...investors wouldn't be condemned for asking: What now? The company just held…
EML Payments (ASX:EML) investors who have held shares for the last 5 years have lost 90% of their money and today capped off that long-term decline. In April 2021, the company hit all time highs, but the CBI regulatory shock that came in May of that year changed everything. Since then, the company has promised…
Add a new term to your vocabulary: The Iran Ceasefire Rally. The rally on the ASX yesterday, that saw our bourse rise over 2.5% in its best day in several months, occurred amidst a 2 week suspension of hostilities in Iran. And the ASX was not alone with Asian markets and North American futures rallying,…
Kingsgate Consolidated (ASX: KCN) delivered a 344% share price gain in CY25, representing the second‑strongest performance among ASX All Ordinaries stocks with a focus on gold. Returns of that magnitude usually generate two reactions: satisfaction from those who held the stock, and the assumption from others that the opportunity has already passed. The current environment…
ASX Biotech Investing has always been the market’s most difficult arena. Yes tech and resources are risky spaces too, but at least a gold explorer can gain just off the back of gold price momentum or activity from neighbouring peers.
With biotech it is all on the success of the individual company. The science is extraordinary…
Australian Active Fund Managers are struggling, make no mistake. Hitting home the point yesterday were reports that Ox Capital Management — a boutique emerging markets specialist led by veteran investor Joseph Lai; had entered formal wind-up proceedings on March 27 2026.
This wind up was not the first, and likely won't be the last. So each…
