Feature Stories

A summary of the previous session’s corporate earnings result releases, including broker views, ratings and target price changes and beat/miss assessments.

What if central bank stimulus could never be turned off? As the ageing population of the developed world forces natural deflation, ongoing money printing ensures negative real returns on income investments. As the developed world submerges, investors must look to the growth inherent in other populations.

Investors buy REITs for attractive property yield. One fund manager is taking a different approach to provide investor returns, recognising that behind every REIT is not just property, but a management company for which return on equity is fundamental.

The US government has just approved a fourth LNG export facility while Canada has begun to ramp up its export aspirations, backed by vast natural gas reserves, just as new Australian projects approach completion.

This report provides brief summaries of company result responses from brokers and a table of “beat” and “miss” assessments for the August 2013 reporting season, including ratings and target price changes.

As the world cries out for monetary policy easing from Beijing, the Chinese government’s stubborn push for structural reform in a weak global growth setting has analysts worried.

US shale oil producers are hoping to export LNG at prices which challenge oil-indexing and play into the hands of angry Asian importers. Just what impact might this have on Australian LNG projects nearing completion?

Standard Life Investments is beginning to look for growth opportunities as the global investment environment shifts from “risk off” to “risk on”, albeit not without an element of caution.

What if Australian governments were to ban fracking? But what if the US decides against exporting LNG? The picture for Australian LNG aspirants is constantly changing.

With earnings results and project updates now in, how do Australia’s leading oil & gas companies rank against each other in terms of LNG aspiration and prospects of success?