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If you’re a fan of confusion and violence and have a spare four hours up your sleeve one day, you may want to sit down to watch a game of American football. For an Australian it might be somewhat of an acquired taste, but the NFL season starts again soon in the US, if you’re up for it. While for the uninitiated the ‘confusion and violence’ may be an apt initial description, the truth is the game is quite an intricate exercise in gaining position on a field through the use of enormous men in helmets and padding as chess…

For many years the ASX has been running a sharemarket game through schools which has encouraged high school students to get experience investing in the sharemarket. More recently, the game has spawned another version that runs along with the school game and is open to everyone. Running over the ‘long term’ of 12-15 weeks, all entrants are given a hypothetical $50,000 to invest. The rules are pretty simple, to ensure they’re ‘diversified’ players need to holding at least four companies on the ASX and can have no more than 25% of their portfolio in one company. To quote the rules,…

Did you miss the top performing company on the ASX in 2017? If so, don’t be too disheartened because it’s turned into one BIG disaster. BIG Un Limited, whose main business was its subsidiary, BIG Review TV, was in the business of creating promotional videos. Small businesses were paying $12,000 for the privilege of BIG Review TV making a promotional video to showcase their business online. BIG, who backdoor listed onto the ASX through the shell of a defunct gold miner, were so successful with sales of their videos that their shareprice zoomed from 23 cents at the beginning of…