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By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion As commissions plunge, young traders are going for broker Australia might not yet have the zero-cost broking model for local shares popularised by the US platform Robinhood or not yet anyway – but that hasn't stopped younger Australians from discovering the delights of share trading. Call them millennials or Zoomers, they've been using their latest lockdown time to good effect. What's more, they're not just trading the meme' stocks plugged by dubious influencers on Reddit or TikTok. The trends bode well for SelfWealth ((SFW)), the only listed low-c...

Navigating The IPO Mine Field By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion How to pick the winners from the duds amid the ongoing IPO mania Like climbers queuing below the Mt Everest summit before the next blizzard sets in, private vendors are continuing to join the initial public offering (IPO) conga line before the market turns foul. Or has the IPO ‘weather’ turned already? Frankly, it’s hard to tell. According to the esteemed website smallcaps.com.au, 84 companies have already executed an IPO in calendar 2021, compared with about 76 for the entire 2020 year. At least 24 more IPOs are in...

By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion The saintly stocks versus the sinners: which ones perform the best? In a new era in which environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations have been enshrined in the way fundies pick their shares, the so-called ‘sin’ stocks had been largely discounted as relics of the past. Until Woolworths’ spin-off of Endeavour Group (EDV) came along, that is. By virtue of Endeavour’s sheer size and pure-play focus on booze and pokies, the bifurcation creates an awkward dilemma for ‘saintly’ Woolworths holders who tolerated the sinful stuff as ...

The Evolving Recruitment Game By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion How to invest in recruitment stocks when the machines take over the hiring process Job seekers routinely are warned that a recruiter will accept or reject an application in a matter of seconds, with a missing keyword or a grammatical error consigning the paperwork to the ‘rejected’ pile. Attributing a previous employment separation to ‘personality differences’ doesn’t help either – and don’t even think about using emojis in the covering letter. Given the job wranglers have to sift through thousands of resume...

Long Lost Small Caps Seeing The Light Three small cap ASX plodders now positioning for the home straight By Tim Boreham, Editor, The New Criterion Almost every small-cap investor knows the pain of investing in the next big thing, only to find their stock remains resolutely that: a small cap. Or even worse, the company ceases to be altogether, providing fodder for the ever-booming insolvency industry. Even more annoying is the regret of investors losing patience with a serial plodder, only for the company to come good after they’ve sold out. So in the June tax selling period, we highlight th...