There are multiple ways of investing in infrastructure, ranging from owning infrastructure shares through listed infrastructure funds and unlisted funds that directly own the assets. This post covers the list of ASX infrastructure shares for those looking to take direct equity positions. ASX infrastructure shares are a continuation of our series highlighting the different companies […]

Macquarie Bank relative performance [wpdatatable id=139] The table shows the performance of Macquarie’s share price relative to other Australian bank share prices. We did not include the smaller regional banks for the sake of simplicity. There is a distinct difference in the performance of Macquarie bank because the company has different earning drivers to the […]

The Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) shares, along with health care shares on the ASX are one of the best places to be over the last 12 months. These sectors contributed to the Australian index funds’ outperformance that wouldn’t have occurred otherwise without these companies. BNPL is one of the significant Fintech innovations homegrown in Australia, and now its […]

Not a day goes by without the Australia-China trade spat appear in the news headlines. The list of main Australia exports shows China appears to be Australia’s largest export market not just in iron ore, copper but across a number of products such as seafood (lobsters) and wheat products. There is a long list of […]

Coca Cola Amatil share price has took a big hit during the Covid sell off and is one of the worst performers in the S&P/ASX 50. The slow recovery in CCL share price can be attributed a number of factors directly attributed to the changes instilled by Covid and its persistence which provides a number […]

The Australia share market has nearly recovered from the sell off as a result of Covid-19. The recent example of the Victoria lockdown shows outbreaks can still happen, but the market sees the aggregate risk can be managed and looking past the crisis. We are more cautious about how the Australian economy will perform after the reduction […]

Goodman Group is one the world’s largest industrial real estate fund manager in the world. The main business line comprise of owning logistics / industrial assets on balance sheet but the growth earnings has been driven by the funds management arm where it raises and deploy third party capital in investing in industrial properties. Unlike […]

Westpac is one of the big 4 Australian banks, the second-largest mortgage lender and the largest bank in NSW. We covered the Australian Bank shares in detail previously, and the short story is that we don’t think banks are one of the shares to buy at this stage of the economic cycle. Westpac and CBA have always focused on […]

Interest rates are at record lows and it doesn’t look like it is going to increase anytime in the near future. The fall in interest rates is positive for long duration income generating assets such as infrastructure assets as this reduce the discount rate used in calculating the present value of the future cash flows. […]

Australian supermarket industry has long being dominated by Woolworths, Coles which is owned by Wesfarmers and to extent Metcash. The industry is seeing a period of change where new market entrants like Aldi and soon Lidl, discount super market chains which focuses on value segment of the market are taking market share at expense of Woolworths and Coles. Metcash […]

Suncorp (ASX SUN) is Australian’s largest Bancassurance. SUN distinct it self from the large 4 banks by holding a large insurance business along with its banking business. Its insurance arm on a standalone basis would be one of the largest insurance company in Australia.   Suncorp Dividend History The level of dividend has not reached the […]

Energy producers had a tough 18 months since the collapse in the oil price. Santos share price is no exception. The market sentiment has turned against Santos given the lower spot and forward oil prices and the leveraged balance sheet from financing its 13.5% in the PNG LNG project. Investment thesis We like LNG growth story as a […]

AGL is commonly compared to Origin (ASX ORG) as two of the largest listed Australian utility companies on the ASX. These 2 companies use to track closely but recently AGL has outperformed Origin share price as market become skeptical on origin’s business model of combined utility and LNG production. The decline of LNG export prices coupled with a […]

IAG is one of the largest insurance companies in the 50 largest ASX listed companies. The company has a consistent dividend history. The table below shows the IAG dividend history over the last 5 years and up to 2018 all of its earnings were from Australia. [wpdatatable id=242] IAG Share Price [wpdatatable id=243] The year […]

Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX CBA) is Australia’s largest bank listed on the ASX and in turn, is the largest financial institution included the ASX Top 20. CBA has held the crown for Australia’s largest bank for the last 2 decades with business lines spread across retail and wholesale banking services, insurance and for the time being, […]

QBE Insurance is on our shares to buy list and will make room in our portfolio when we have capacity. It’s main business line is Property and Casualty insurance and unlike health insurers like Medibank (MPL ASX) which just focus on Australia, it has presence across all major oversea markets. It is the largest property […]

Wesfarmers is Australia’s largest listed conglomerate and business across a number of sectors from insurance to coal mining and some of Australia’s most well known retail brands like Bunnings, K-mart and Officeworks. The company is included all of the Australia market index. It used to own Coles but the supermarket was subsequently demerged from the […]