Columnist Julia Lee

Green chips refer to environmentally friendly stocks and they are gaining in popularity. With the government having an expanded renewable energy target of 20% by 2020, which companies may turn out to be the winners? Renewable energy refers generally

Most people know that the sharemarket is a vehicle for growing your wealth but we also know that not all shares grow. So what is it that differentiates the dogs from the pack leaders? The power of investing in companies in the sharemarket is the

It's been a recording breaking week for gold prices and with the US dollar looking weak, things haven't looked this good for the yellow metal in a long time. So what's driving the run up that we've seen in prices and is it likely to

It's true that when markets fall, it becomes cheaper to buy stocks. The problem is that if it falls even further, wouldn't you have rather bought at the lower price. The key is to wait until the market has already bottomed out and to buy

Most brokers will have a research area which at the heart of their job is to come up with an "intrinsic value" or "real value" for the company that is listed on the market. If the stock is trading below that "intrinsic