Australian Foundation Investment Co Ltd
How to Snag an ASX Bargain
One of the best ways to score a bargain when shopping is to trawl through the bargain bins and sales items to find something of good quality selling much cheaper than normal. Take Australian Foundation Investment Company (ASX: AFI), for example.
ETFs surge as passive investment overtakes active management in Australia
One of the big trends in Australia – and the rest of the world – has been the triumph of passive investment vehicles such as exchange traded funds over the traditional fund managers and their star stock pickers. In Australia ASX figures show that ETF investment hit an amazing $200 billion towards the end of […]
Want to buy some cut-price shares?
What would your reaction be if I told you I could get you some shares at a price that is significantly less than what they are actually worth? Well, most people would say here is a wheelbarrow, fill it up with shares but as always there is something of a catch. It is possible to […]
How to escape the clutches of the big miners and banks
One of the problems of index investing in Australia is that we have a couple of sectors on the Australian share market that are hugely dominant. If you look just at the big four banks and the big miners plus Woodside (ASX: WDS), they represent a staggering 34% of the ASX 200. They are all […]