My final Saturday report for 2013 means there can be only two really important questions to tackle. The first has to be: can I build the case for stocks next year, again! And second, if 2014 is another up-year,..

I have to say I love Christmas, and I especially love it when Santa arrives in the nick of time with an end-of-year rally. Our market is up over 200 points since Thursday last week. And I loved waking up this m..

US-dollar earning global companies will lead the ASX next year, which is why Charlie’s stock picks are all of those things plus more.

Read this if you want to know some golden rules for investing and how to play the investment markets next year.

It’s been a big week of revelations for me. The overdue correction, or pullback, that we’ve endured on our market has finally spread to the USA. It now looks like a Santa Claus rally, which turns up 80% of ..

In the first of a two part series, Charlie shares his forecasts for 2014 and explains why it’s time to rotate into wealth managers, property developers, building materials, steel, transport, infrastructure co..

Even if the share market doesn't hit our forecast of 5500, if you followed our advice, you would have still made a bucket load.

When I woke up at five o’clock this morning, the Dow was up 198 points and I was caught in a market dilemma. Based on that market reaction, I thought: “Must have been bad news on the jobs report”. However..

Ben Griffiths, from award-winning small cap fund manager Eley Griffiths Group, explains why this aged-care accommodation provider and developer’s move into manufactured home estates (MHE) is a story worth bel..

Takeovers are all the rage at the moment, and the best advice on how to make money out of them came from none other than the late Rene Rivkin.

It’s Black Friday in the US and it’s not December 13 - that comes next week - which means the Yanks will get two Black Fridays in two weeks! No, this is not a calendar freak out. It’s just that in America..

As good trustees we know that we need to examine our portfolios on a regular basis and rebalance or reallocate when necessary. This is what we are doing now.

It’s time to look outside the big players when it comes to yield. Here’s a list, which includes Ruralco, Ardent Leisure and Hanson, that was put together by the experts.

One of my most important tasks in my working life is to be a human thermometer, perpetually checking the heat of the stock market so I can, hopefully, alert all my subscribers and financial planning clients whe..

It’s the question on everyone’s lips – when will QE start? It won’t be far away and there will definitely be stocks to benefit. Find out below why QBE is one of them.

Fed boss-in-waiting Janet Yellen is delivering her Christmas presents early, but that doesn’t mean the party is over. There will be plenty of stocking fillers left!

When I was a youngster with long, blonde hair - yep, there was a time - there were two surf clubs and two surfer clubs at the iconic Bondi Beach. There was Bondi Surf Life Saving Club, allegedly the oldest club..

There are plenty of factors unique to Australia that underpin the property led East Coast recovery. Companies like these three are set to benefit, even if the rest of the analyst community are not so sure.

While there may be a few ups and downs along the way, I'm with Tanya Branwaite, who's expecting a slow grind higher for the world and local economy.

Well blow me down — Wall Street went higher on a miles better than expected jobs report that has now brought the prospect of tapering from April to possibly December!

The majority of analysts are completely wrong on CBA, according to Charlie, who predicts a share price of well over $80.

It might be a lame argument, but there is a possibility that we could really be heading into a new paradigm. Here are the reasons why.

Wall Street not selling off, a shooting in LA airport, a drone takes out a Taliban leader, insurance companies cancel millions of health policies because of Obamacare and Halloween zombies takeover the subways ..

Things are looking brighter for the Australian consumer, which means we might all be spending more come December. JB Hi-Fi will be the best placed stock to benefit.

When things start looking good, the pessimist in us gets jumpy. While the market has been particularly strong, that doesn’t necessarily mean we’re in for a correction. In fact, the reverse might be true.

The working week began with a car trip up the Hume Highway, leaving the Melbourne marriage of my son, which went off like a dream, behind. However there was a fatherly price to pay — Dad volunteered to drive ..

Following on from Barrie Dunstan’s analysis earlier on Monday, our intrepid analyst Charlie, is even more convinced of the growth profile of Telstra, after a meeting with management.

Don’t believe everything you read in the financial papers. You need a healthy dose of scepticism to interpret some of the opinions that are being bandied about at the moment.

It’s Caulfield Cup day in Melbourne but the Switzer clan won’t be focusing on Gerry Harvey’s Royal Descent in the Cup or his mate John Singleton’s Dear Demi in the big race. We’ll be fully engaged wit..

Just because a stock is unloved doesn’t mean it isn’t a good buy. In fact the trick to finding outperformance is finding these companies before anybody else does. Charlie explains why four laggards, and esp..

In these abnormal times of low term deposit rates, there shouldn’t be any further RBA cash rate cuts, so there’s only one way to go, and that’s up!