We have a problem keeping equity investments below 70% to maintain a balanced fund. Each time we sell down something, the remaining equities in the portfolio grow even bigger. Since early May we have reluctantly sold some of our holdings in TNE, CWE, TGR, MNF, and MYT. Plus all of… read more →
We have now gone live with our own Twitter account @augustinvest. This will mainly be used to flag August Investments news posts. My own Twitter account @DamienLynch55 will continue to operate for general discussion around green and ethical investments, climate, society, economics, philosophy, spirituality, poetry, ….. You get the idea.… read more →
Eco Investor editor Victor Bivell interviews our managing director, Damien Lynch, in a wide ranging video about the environmental and ethical investment sectors in Australia. The interview been added to our About Us page.
Thank you to those Shareholders who shared their thoughts about extending our horizons and investing outside Australia and our immediate neighbourhood. The responses were varied. Overall, no clear direction emerged, with opinions ranging from moderately against to strongly in favour of investing overseas. However, most respondents agreed that such investment… read more →
Our investment team has identified significant potential for growth in the mobile phone payments and services sector. They have selected Mobile Embrace (ASX: MBE), Crowd Mobile (CM8) and Touchcorp (TCH) each for a small investment. Already we are ahead on these. Not considered green – but ethically neutral.
August Investments during the month of May 2015 increased shareholder value by 3.8%. This was based mainly on capital growth of our listed equities. For the eleven months to May 2015 the increase was 24.5%. A dividend of $4.00 per share was paid on 1 June 2015.
We are now on Twitter. Initially we will use my address @DamienLynch55. This is still experimental to see what posts you prefer. Initially I will flag News post on the August Investments webite as well as changes in our investments and other items which may be of interest to you… read more →