Many of us are familiar with at least some big-name companies listed on the Australian Stock Exchange. How many of us have heard of any Nasdaq companies outside of Facebook, Google or Apple? How many of us have heard of Taiwan Semiconductors, a major player in global production of semiconductors in the world? The likely answer is “not many”.
Howard Belcher is a co-founder of News Bites and he has forty years of experience in the Australian financial sector as an analyst, investment adviser, journalist and former director of two ASX-listed companies. Anil Bakaya is the founder of BuySellSignals, an Indian-based business which supplies financial news and other business information. Their book, “Top World Stocks: 140 Global Baggers 2018”, was just recently published and as the name suggests, there are 140 different companies listed in it.
The book is the product of a collaboration between Belcher and Bakaya, who formed a joint venture in 2004 to distribute content to global online publishers and others such Dow Jones, Lexis-Nexis and Thomson Reuters. The joint venture houses a research operation for the production of over 40,000 computer-generated articles per day involving at least 30,000 companies listed in more than 90 countries.
“Top World Stocks” aims to assist readers to decide on a set of various stocks from which to choose in constructing of a portfolio. It is “not a stock picking service and is not offered as a forecasting model”. It includes short reviews on what it describes as “100 global stocks” as well as 20 stocks of interest from Asia and another 20 stocks from Australia and New Zealand. The authors recommend the book be used “to whet your appetite or re-boot your investment approach.”