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March 2024

Meet the Manager profile with portfolio manager and principal Andrew Fraser.

February 2024

Merlon Capital Partners, which holds around 1 per cent of CSR, said the proposal to acquire CSR was likely to be successful at the current price.

January 2024

Andrew Fraser remains bullish on BHP and Fortescue Metals, attributing iron ore's robust prices as key drivers for their dividends, while downplaying the impact of BHP's nickel division closure on overall performance.

July 2023

Merlon’s Concentrated Value Fund topped Mercer’s list of Australian equity funds for the 12 months to June 30.

July 2023

Timely bets on AGL, New Hope, Whitehaven and Qantas rocketed Merlon’s value fund to the top of the Mercer investment survey for the 2023 financial year, outperforming the sharemarket by 11.7 per cent.

July 2023

We are delighted the Merlon Concentrated Australian Share Fund has ranked first in Livewire Markets' wrap-up of top-performing Aussie equity funds for FY22/23 (large to mid-cap category).

April 2023

Aussie shares are still the place to be according to Andrew Fraser.

March 2023

Ben Goodwin joins Livewire's economic series Signal or Noise, where he conducts a deep dive into the global commodities market and the structural factors affecting it.

March 2023

The path to AGL Energy doing a share buyback is not so improbable if Merlon’s Neil Margolis is right about the future of its $20 billion transformation.

January 2023

Merlon breaks the top 3 in Mercer’s top investment manager performance tables for 2022.

December 2022

Merlon Capital Partners, is pushing for AMP to increase its capital return

December 2022

Livewire Markets has released the results of their 2022 Fundie Favourites. Congratulations to Merlon's Hamish Carlisle, who had the No.1 stock pick.

November 2021

Rebecca El-Khoury and Neil Margolis spoke with the AFR about the inherent problems with virtual AGMs.

October 2021

Ben Goodwin explains how the global energy crisis that started in Europe exploded into a bigger problem.

September 2021

Merlon hires sustainability manager

September 2021

The Merlon Australian Share Income Fund has received a "Highly Recommended" rating upgrade from Zenith Investment Partners.

August 2021

Neil Margolis discusses the consensus yield for the year ahead and the composition of iron ore and bank stocks.

July 2021

Ben Goodwin sits down with Ausbiz to discuss how tight the oil market is and the volatility ahead.

April 2021

Ben Goodwin is here to tell you, just don't count the US rigs ahead of the next OPEC+ get together

March 2021

Neil Margolis outlines his views on payout ratios and explains the variance between companies and sectors.

March 2021

Neil Margolis explains how he dissects companies before selecting them for their income funds or client portfolios.

November 2020

Hamish Carlisle discusses the sale of amaysim to Optus.

October 2020

Financial advisers and investors should look at sustainable dividends rather than the very next dividend when managing risks while generating equity income, Neil Margolis discusses at the Morningstar Investment Conference.

October 2020

Hamish Carlisle calls for clarity on the future of AMP Capital before the end of the year.

September 2020

Neil Margolis discusses what investors should be thinking about when it comes to building a sustainable portfolio of dividend stocks.

September 2020

Neil Margolis discusses six income candidates and whether they can be trusted for sustainable dividends.

September 2020

Directorial independence has turned to arrogance. Boards are not listening to messages from shareholders that they need to hear.

July 2020

Neil Margolis discusses why bank shares are undervalued and a better bet for total returns than Telstra, especially if the coronavirus recession extends no longer than six months.

October 2019

Merlon discuss Telstra's increasing financial complexity and why that could be suggestive of a business with weakening earnings quality.

August 2019

Hamish Carlisle weighs in on AMP's recently unveiled three-year turnaround plan.

August 2019

Investors, including Hamish Carlisle, have expressed scepticism at AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari’s last-ditch attempt to save Australia’s oldest wealth management company.

July 2019

Hamish Carlisle weighs in on AMP's attempt to sell its life insurance business.

July 2019

Hamish Carlisle calls on AMP to listen to its stakeholders before embarking on another deal.

July 2019

Merlon highlight the potential value of AMP's life insurance business and call on AMP to seek shareholder approval before embarking on another deal.

July 2019

With the sale of AMP's life insurance business "unlikely to proceed", Merlon would welcome an end to the deal.

July 2019

Joey Mui shares his insights on investing in 'quality' companies, whether it works through the cycle and the current valuation premium ascribed to these stocks.

May 2019

Ben Goodwin shares his insights into the demand outlook for iron ore.

April 2019

Merlon calls on other AMP shareholders to vote against chair David Murray's election at next month's AGM.

April 2019

Merlon calls for investors to have greater say in large transactions, claiming CBA wasted over $50bn in shareholder capital acquiring Colonial.

December 2018

Merlon, which owns 4% of Asaleo care, has backed the sale of it's tissue business to Solaris Paper.

November 2018

Summary of Merlon's press coverage re: AMP insurance arm sale.

September 2018

At the Investment Magazine Equities Summit in Melbourne, Neil Margolis discussed the relationship between style, process and product.

July 2018

Neil Margolis discusses Woolworths as an stock that passes Merlon's test of income dividend sustainability.

July 2018

With Telstra shares down 34% over the last 12 months, Neil Margolis discusses Merlon's view of the company.

July 2018

Despite a successful Amazon Prime Day in Australia, the company's domestic site still has a long way to go to approach the range of its US counterpart, according to Merlon's Adrian Lemme.

July 2018

Neil Margolis discusses what he looks for when assessing the sustainability of a dividend.

July 2018

Ben Goodwin shares his insights into the recent performance drivers for commodities and energy, and discusses why investors should approach the sector with caution.

February 2018

Neil Margolis joined Tom Piotrowski to discuss the Merlon Australian Share Income Fund, investment philosophy and market views.

October 2017

In this video, Neil Margolis shares three important considerations for assessing a retailer's ability to weather the Amazon storm.

September 2017

In recent years, the long-term trend for 'value' portfolio to outperform 'growth' portfolios seems to have disappeared. Neil Margolis discusses why in this video.

September 2017

Neil Margolis explains how Merlon identify our best ideas and why we think the market is ignoring an important revenue stream.

August 2017

Neil Margolis doesn't see value in "safe sector" companies, and discusses two sectors in particular that appear drastically overvalued.