Forum Archive Index - August 2001

["G Stolwyk" <stolwyk@wave.co.nz>]

 

Symbols:
C: Company announcements/ data / profiles. E: Education. E/T: Education Technical. F/T: Funds or Trusts. G: Government. SE: Stock Exchange. SH: Shareholders' association. SR: Share registrar. 

 

    < www.alltheweb.com >   World's most powerful, ultra fast commercial search engine. ( Rec. by G.S ).

   

    < www.globalbankinfo.com >   Gateway to international banking. Banks of the world and their web addresses. This includes:

 

    http://moneyonline.co.nz/brokerage/prospect.htm : Money Online: Discount Brokerage Service.( Rec. by Phil. Robinson ).

 

    < www.brokerchoice.com.au >   Online trading prices charged by Australian brokers.( Rec. by B. Byork ).

 

    < www.clearstation.com >   Record of daily historical Dow and Nasdaq readings and other data.

 

    < www.lowrisk.com >    Historical Bull and Bear periods, market crashes, P/E ratios.

 

    < http://kitco.com >    Gold trading and news. Discussion of other precious metals.

 

C: < www.egoli.com.au >  ( Click on ' News and views ' ). Australian company news and comment being updated as trading

proceeds. Note the important NAB or ANZ forecasts made from time to time. Excellent site! ( Rec. by G.S ).

 

C: < http://www.ozestock.com.au > Australian Company profiles, charts and active message boards.

 

C: < http://stocknessmonster.com >  Australian and NZSE share prices and sales; company announcements, Australian Market Depth data. Past Company news. A 'must have' site! ( Rec. by G.S ). 

 

C: < http://profiles.wisi.com/profiles > A massive world data base of some 300,000 company profiles and detailed analysis of over 20,000 companies and web sites. Recommended by Rini H. ( Com.: Some details of an analysis can be out of date: Check the relevant company's web site as well ). 

 

C: < http://investor.ninemsn.com.au > Australian prices, company balance sheets, announcements and commentary, historical financials. ( Rec. by P. Maiden ). A very good site and most info can be obtained without registration!

 

C: < http://globalregister.co.nz >   Share prices of NZ and Australian stocks including those of little known stocks. The shares are arranged in alphabetical order. Armstrong Jones Unit trusts.

 

E: < www.sharechat.co.nz > The top tool bar has a tab: ' Education ' ; this has direct links to the web sites of Aus. and NZ SE companies. It also has links to the ' First Steps ' and ' Learning To Invest '  series and has ' The Investor Column '. 

 

The Home page has many links to national and international newspapers, periodicals and financial newspapers. Sharechat has a Forum and Message Boards.

 

The Focus Investing Group ( FIG ) uses one of these boards. Sharechat is building up a network of news items and announcements concerning companies. It now sells books as well. A site with many links and features! 

 

E: http://www.sharechat.co.nz/cgi-bin/msgboards/post_show.pl?id=2314  FIG: Screening Criteria used when evaluating companies.

Fundamental investors need to read the August, 2001, progress report. 

 

E: < www.investors.com/learn/ >  Click on " IBD learning centre ". A good site. Some care is needed when some Dot.com companies are discussed. ( Rec. by D. O' Conner ). 

 

E: < www.investorwords.com/ >  This financial glossary has 5000 definitions and 15000 links between related terms. A 'must have' site! ( Rec. by Snoopy ).

 

E: < www.investopedia.com > Tutorials on basic concepts of investing, dictionary, practical tips. Good site! Rec. by Daniel

 

E: < http://www.fool.com > Site of ' The Motley Fool '. Investment strategies, tutorials, special high quality features. A very respected site! Rec. by B. Brakenridge. 

 

E: < www.geocities.com/andrewychan/index.html > File name; " Economic Model V 16 ". PDF file. Philip Robinson strongly recommends this 33 page pdf called " The Mechanics of the Economic Model, ROIC, WACC, EVA, MVA and CAP defined".

 

E: < http://www.stern.nyu.edu/~adamodar > Various programs and models used in valuation, capital budgeting, " optimal " capital structure and many other subjects. Including spreadsheets. Rec. by Philip Robinson. 

 

E: < www.freecfm.com/a/ausinvest/FAQ.htm >  An Australian discussion group answers frequently asked questions and discusses definitions > ( Rec. by Snoopy ).

 

E: < http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/kwbarcla/shares/forum.htm >                                                                                              

Instructions and spreadsheet ( MS Works and Excel ) for the calculation of Market Value of Securities,off-line.

 

E/T: < www.stanz.co.nz  >   The Society of Technical Analysts, NZ inc. This society meets regularly and meetings are addressed by well known speakers. The site als lists a number of recommended books.

 

E/T: < www.echarts.com/Learning/Library/ >  Learning technical analysis, trading terms and the interpretation of charts. A top site! ( Rec. by Phaedrus )

 

F/T: < www.funds-sp.com/win/en/ >   Rates funds/trusts and has a massive data base ( Rec. by T. Haddon ).

 

F/T: < www.trustnet.com >  Rates the dominant 1830 of the international unit- and investment trusts with up to five year's performance. Data can be rearranged to extract other comparisons. Top site! ( Rec. by G.S )

 

G:  < www.companies.govt.nz >  Companies' office: Business unit in the Ministry of Economic Development

 

G:  < www.stats.govt.nz >   Statistics, NZ.

 

G:  < www.rbnz.govt.nz >    Reserve Bank, NZ.

 

G:  < http://rangi.knowledge-basket.co.nz/gpacts/actlists.html > Lists of acts in the GP Legislation collections. It includes Hansard. The private company collecting this Govt. data is owned by two former librarians. Good site!

 

SE:  < www.nzse.co.nz >  The NZSE. This site provides information to the investor.

 

SE:  < www.tradingroom.com.au >   The Aust. SE. Note that " Stocknessmonster " site - see above - is often preferred.

 

SE:  < www.nyse.com >   The New York SE.

 

SE:  < www.nasdaq.com >  The Nasdaq.

 

SE:  < www.londonstockexchange.com >  The London SE.

 

SH:  < http://www.asa.asn.au > Australian Shareholders' Association.

 

SR:   < www.au.computershare.com >  The Computershare share registrar.

 

SR:   < www.registrars.aprl.com.au >  The Perpetual share registrar. 

 

Acknowledgement: I want to thank those contributors, named or not named, who gave this information to the Forum.

 

Gerry Stolwyk.