Opportunities 3

I was playing with the top 500 local stocks by capitalisation and decided to generate the table below which looks at the year to year performance of the top 10% which I arranged into very loose bins below. As you would expect there are a small number of outliers and a cluster around the bottom…

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How To Get Exposure

There are many ways to get broad exposure to a market – the route most select is via an ETF that represents the local market. Generally, this is the only mechanism available to investors/traders. However, in Australia, we have a somewhat interesting condition whereby you can actually invest in the exchange. After demutualisation many years…

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Heavy Lifting

One of the things that has always interested me about markets is the use or misuse of benchmarks such as the All Ordinaries Index or the S&P/ASX/200. I am always interested in how people measure the success of their portfolio against such tools – in part it makes sense but in part, various indices also…

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