Investor Insights

The influential 17th With Intelligence HFM Asian Performance Award ceremony for 2022 was held in Singapore on 30 November. Winning managers were selected from a variety of categories, including Arbitrage, Macro, Australian Equity, Asia ex-Japan, Managed Futures, Indian Equity, Chinese Equity, Global Equity, Fixed Income and High Yield Distressed Category.

This week, the Australian Bureau of Statistics released the monthly consumer price index, seeing a slight month-on-month fall, the Aura High Yield SME Fund was recognised in the HFM Asian Performance Awards 2022, as the top performing fund in the Fixed Income, High Yield & Distressed Category over the past 12 months in APAC, and our team attended the annual…

Investors looking for investment opportunities providing monthly cash income, may want to consider the Aura High Yield SME Fund or the Aura Core Income Fund. This is particularly suitable for investors who wish to source monthly income with lower volatility of returns.

  In this week’s video insight David discusses Australian Eagle Asset Management’s process of analysing unloved companies which are seeing an operational turnaround yet to be understood by the market.   A recent example of an “improving quality” company with a strong valuation case is AMP (ASX:AMP).

Warren Buffett is no fan of airlines as an investment. He once wrote that “if a far-sighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down. ”  And I doubt he would change his mind when it comes to investing in Qantas (ASX:QAN).

This week, Governor Philip Lowe gave an address on inflation in a rapidly evolving economic environment. ​ RBA speech on price stability, the supply side and prosperity1 ​ ​In this week’s address, the Governor’s key topic was inflation.

At Australian Eagle, the external environment is not something we can control but it is something we do pay attention to. It plays a part in our investment thesis on stocks and will always be an important consideration in terms of our assessment of the quality of a company.

  In this week’s video insight Roger suggests a repeatable way to invest, in a sector of the Australian stock market, that appears to have provided excellent returns to those who have applied it in the past. That sector is retailers, and there are three companies that should be on your watch-list.

ResMed (ASX:RMD) is an Aussie-grown international success story. Now based in San Diego, it’s the world leader in the Sleep Disordered Breathing market, providing devices for treating sleep apnea, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and other respiratory conditions. RMD’s share price has grown a whopping 3,800 per cent since listing in 1999, and we’re confident there’s more growth to come.

It’s a tough time to be a retailer, what with increasing interest rates, fuel and energy costs putting a squeeze on consumer spending. And some retailers are particularly adversely affected. Which is why investors need to be highly selective – especially when it comes to buying shares in consumer discretionary businesses.

This week, the wage price index demonstrated that real wages are struggling to keep up with the rate of inflation. The labour force remains extremely tight, hitting a high point in 4 decades. With rates rising and migration coming back, we expect this to be close to the peak.

Both Australian Eagle and Montgomery have had a position in Macquarie Group (ASX:MQG) for some time. The positive view on the company would seem obvious given the heavy emphasis on first identifying quality businesses in both Australian Eagle’s and Montgomery’s investment process.