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Shani Jayamanne

Shani Jayamanne is a Senior Investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia.

Super is an important bedrock of most Australians' net worth and retirement planing. However, the majority of Australians don't engage with their super at all. Shani provided a 1-hour super check that anybody can follow. The steps are simple but could have a drastic impact on the size of your portfolio at retirement.

Honest self-reflection can be painful. Not only when it comes to our finances but in life in general. In this article, Shani stressed the importance of learning from your past investing mistakes.

In her chart of the week feature, Shani highlights the underperformance of small-cap stocks and the valuation gap between smaller companies and blue-chips

Most people inherit assets at some stage in their life. And in many cases, especially for children of the deceased, this will be a property. Shani discussed some of your options for what to do with it.

You can see a round-up of Shani's articles in October here.

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Joseph Taylor

Joseph Taylor is an Associate Investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia.

With the ASX still not far from all-time highs and several household names looking fully valued, Joseph looked elsewhere for value. Go here to see 11 global stocks that our analysts think offer compelling value right now.

Top rated Aussie funds and our analysts, howevever, are managing to find value in individual ASX shares. Go here to see 3 cheap ASX shares held by funds with a Gold medalist rating from our manager research team.

Exploring the other side of a widely-held view can be another way to find opportunities. Joseph touted the benefits of taking a "numbers over narrative" approach, using one of the world's most out of favour sectors as an example.

You can see Joseph's top articles in October here.

If you have a question about any of the stocks in our Australian coverage, please email it to joseph.taylor@morningstar.com. Select questions will be put to the analyst covering the stock and may be published in a future article.

Read more of Joseph's articles.

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Simonelle Mody is an Associate Investment Specialist, Morningstar Australia.

Sim tapped her experience working on transactions involving data centre assets to highlight 3 ASX shares with exposure to this important technology.

Qantas have benefitted from a strong rebound in air travel. But can the good times last? Sim explains why our analysts think the market has it wrong.

October was Sim's first full month in her new role at Morningstar. Go here to see her best articles from the month.

Read more of Simonelle's articles.

Mark LaMonica

 

Mark LaMonica, CFA is Director of Personal Finance, Morningstar Australia.

History has shown that rapid growth in the economy, individual companies and entire asset classes often results in poor outcomes for investors. Mark explained why in this article.

Australians and people living in Australia have a lot of things to be thankful for. If you are an income investor, franking credits may well be one of them. Mark unpicked the true value of franking credits and how to weight them in investment decisions.

Peter Lynch once quipped that you should try to invest in a company that an idiot could run, because one day an idiot will run it. Mark showed how you might assess whether a company meets this criteria.

Mark has also been busy running Morningstar's Income Investing Bootcamp. Go here for more information on the series.

Read more of Mark's articles.

More content from Morningstar this week

James Gruber discusses a warning from Howard Marks who, fresh from a visit to Australia, thinks investors are in for a 'sea-change'.

Google parent Alphabet posted strong results as its search and cloud segments shone. Here's what we thought of Alphabet's earnings.

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