I regularly take the bus route that runs past my street to Highpoint West, so I know a lot of the other frequent bus passengers. One is an elderly chap who is always friendly and chatty, and who has lived in Avondale Heights his whole life (ie since the early 1950s). He knows a lot …
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A Happy Day On The Sharemarket
At the end of March, one of those share market newsletters I subscribe to tried spruiking another more premium newsletter dealing with share market volatility, talking about ‘Big Wednesday’ – a period of great volatility and falls. I wrote about that matter at the time. Soon after, the Trump tariff announcements caused some falls, followed …
Should I Adopt A New Investment Strategy?
Telstra shares hit an all time high of $9.20 in February 1999. I know this for certain because at the time I had 600 shares in the company from the original T1 float, and had temporarily moved to Canberra for a few months in late January 1999 – it was a moment I could well …
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At the Insignia Financial Group AGM
In the almost 17 months since I retired from work, I have started making an effort to attend corporate AGMs where I have a direct or indirect interest. [Direct interest is where I am a shareholder. Indirect interest is where I get my mother to appoint me as a proxy to vote her shares in …
Australian Vintage Group Continues To Spiral….
Readers of my blog will know that I am a shareholder in Treasury Wine Estates, and that I recently attended the Treasury AGM – mostly to enjoy the free drinks afterwards (mostly Penfolds Bin 28 shiraz). During the AGM, someone on the Board mentioned that TWE is doing very well in comparison to other wine …
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All Care, No Responsibility? Bonza Airlines Crashes (Metaphorically)
Having a particular interest in the English language, I like reading books like The Story Of English and Bill Bryson’s Mother Tongue, and biographies on lexologists like Dr Samuel Johnson and the murderous lunatic (I kid you not) who helped build the original Oxford Dictionary. One word whose obscure origins do vaguely confound me, but …
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Broo Holds Two AGMs Back To Back
As the few readers of this blog would know, I am a shareholder in Broo, a craft brewing company which is listed on the ASX. As a recap, I acquired most of my shares in early 2011 when, as an inspired marketing stunt, the founder of Broo offered a number of shares per slab for …
The Man Who Broke Capitalism
I initially started my share portfolio in mid 1996 with 110 shares in Mayne Nickless. I had just bought my first home, read a book about share market investing for the first time, and saw an ad in the Australian Financial Review about endowment warrants. I made an enquiry with a stockbroking firm trying to …
Lost For Words! 