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Creso Pharma (ASX:CPH) hits major medical cannabis milestones in human and animal health

The global legal marijuana market size is expected to reach US$66.3 billion by the end of 2025. Growth will be fuelled by increasing legalisation and the growing adoption of cannabis as a pharmaceutical product for treating severe medical conditions, such as cancer, Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s disease, arthritis, and other neurological conditions. The US has already legalised medical marijuana in 33 states, with […]

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Carrying a spear: How the best investors react to bad news

One of the hardest tests investors face is knowing what to do when they’re significantly down – or up for that matter – on a new investment. The impulse to act on instinct to any sudden piece of news, whether clear signal or noise, is something widely acknowledged by psychologists as ‘System 1’ thinking. System 1 served our ancestors […]

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4 ASX Stocks to give you an ‘Edge’

Is ‘edge’ computing the next big thing?

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3 ASX listed stocks to help you sleep better in 2020.

Millions of people around the world regularly suffer through a terrible night’s sleep due to various medical issues such as sleep apnoea. Poor sleep is a widely acknowledged contributor to poor attention, diet and productivity – not to mention the declining sanity of its sufferers – so many companies are understandably on the lookout for the holy grail of treatments. […]

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Are you swimming naked?

Last year was good to investors. The last decade even more so. And with markets at record highs there’s plenty of shareholders feeling pretty good about themselves — especially those that had any exposure to tech. But as we roll into a new solar orbit, it’s worth remembering the difference between process and outcome. The market demands a good deal […]

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Confecting Complexity

Great writers like Charles Dickens have explored the true meaning of Christmas. I will leave that to them. For my part I always seem to find a way to make Christmas at least a little about myself. And so it was last December when I allowed an eleventh hour Christmas shopping trip to be hijacked at a JB Hifi, as […]

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Can PushPay’s (ASX:PPH) acquisition accelerate growth?

Donor management platform provider PushPay (ASX:PPH) today announced the acquisition of Church Community Builder (CCB) in a deal worth US$87.5 million. Founded in 1999, Church Community Builder sells a Church Management System (ChMS) and has over 4,000 existing customers. The cloud based platform enables churches to more effectively engage with their community and manages a range of administrative functions. PushPay […]

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Why are Recurring Revenues Valued more than Traditional Annual Revenues?

The last few decades have seen a sharp and prominent rise of software companies whose business models revolve around largely upfront development and marketing costs followed by ongoing recurring revenues. They have been dubbed as software as a service (SaaS) companies and there is no doubt that this has been a buzzword in recent times, justifiable or not. Often the […]

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Redbubble (ASX:RBL) shares plummet on disappointing update

Is it time to cut and run?

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Where is the market headed in 2020?

The ASX is set to round off a pretty solid year, with the All Ordinaries index up around 20% since January — about double the long term average annual gain. But can the Aussie market continue its winning run in 2020? The truth is, no one knows. Of course, you can expect to see all manner of pundits offer their […]