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…
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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…
Investors asked to name ASX 200 stocks winning during the Iran war would likely think of oil and gas stocks, benefiting from soaring prices. This is not incorrect - oil stocks like Woodside, Santos and Karoon have grabbed the headlines as the obvious beneficiaries of the US-Iran conflict that erupted in late February 2026.
However, they'd…
The Koala IPO went off without a hitch. The furniture company hit the ASX boards earlier today (March 31 2026) and did well out of the gate, rewarding investors who secured an allocation in the offer as well as those who'd been around for years, one of whom was Steve Smith. As of 2.30pm Tuesday,…
There are hard questions investors need to ask about their portfolio every now and again, because anyone telling you there's such a thing as a 'set and forget' investment is wrong. Markets evolve, company fundamentals shift, and macro conditions change, yet many portfolios are left largely unchecked. The most rational approach is to periodically interrogate…
It is easy to think the Impact of The Iran War is simply businesses in the oil space or that use oil in their operations (for instance freight businesses). Or by extension, companies in the 'consumer discretionary' space that find due to higher energy prices (and interest rates), that their goods are more discretionary than…
