After being snubbed by overseas institutional investors, Latitude Financials second attempt to list on the Australian Securities Exchange last week has failed. While local investors were strongly in support of its initial public offering (IPO), you have to ask if the institutions got it wrong.

There is an old saying that everything is for sale at a price, however, while I ...

With the success of Afterpay and Zip, we have seen an increasing number of companies enter the buy-now-pay-later space in order to capture the increasing demand for these payment services.

With Afterpay rising over 200 per cent and Zip rising over 800 per cent in the past two years, investors have scrambled to gain a slice of the action. Given this, it’s not surprising ...

On Tuesday last week the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) decided to lower the cash rate by another 25 basis points, resulting in a new record low of 0.75 per cent. Consequently, investors are now more optimistic about the future after the RBA's historic rate cut, particularly as the Australian stock market is gearing up for the next bull run.

Before deciding to cut interest ...

In the face of global uncertainty and heightened volatility the Australian stock market has shown resilience given that it has risen consistently from mid-August gaining around 309 points or 4.78 per cent, and this is expected to continue with a number of key sectors being the catalyst for driving the market higher.

This is a positive sign for investors with many now optimistic ...

The US China trade war, Saudi oil crisis and low interest rates have all heightened global uncertainty. If you also include the uncertainty surrounding the impending 2020 US election, you would think this is a recipe for world markets not to perform very well. Yet these global tensions have failed to halt the All Ordinaries Index, as well as other world markets.

While the ...