• Entrepreneur

Patrick Grove to repeat iProperty template everywhere

Digital entrepreneur Patrick Grove is saying goodbye to the online marketplace that made his name but he aims to repeat its recipe for success everywhere from Asia to Zanzibar.

• Updated Feb 1, 2016
• Michael Bailey

• AUB Group

Growth stocks of tomorrow

If your investment horizon is measured in decades you'll need more than high yielding blue chips in your share portfolio. Matthew Smith explains what to look for and names ten stocks to add to your watchlist.

• Updated Jul 17, 2015
• Matthew Smith

• Alumina Limited

Diamonds and dogs: fundies’ highs, lows, and 2015 hopes

Even the best fund managers are only as good as their next call. The past year was a classic stock picker’s market, with the S&P/ASX 200 going nowhere but double-digit returns from some shrewd investors.

• Updated Dec 29, 2014
• Vesna Poljak

• Market Wrap

iCar Asia (ICQ)

Nick Caley, analyst at Baillieu Holst, has upgraded iCar Asia to a “buy” with a revised DCF valuation of $1.15 and price target of $1.40.

• Updated Nov 19, 2014
• Elise Shaw

• REA Group

The five best ways to invest in Asia today

Five years ago it was only investment theme worth talking about. As financial markets from London to New York imploded, many pinned their hopes on the Asian growth engine to pull the global economy out of the mire.

• Updated Nov 13, 2014

• Investment banking

iCar Asia taps Bells, Baillieu for $21m placement

iCar Asia is seeking to raise $21 million in a placement through Bell Potter Securities and Baillieu Holst.

• Nov 11, 2014
• Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Jake Mitchell

• Advertising

Carsales.com looks at iCar Asia takeover play

Online advertising giant Carsales.com may launch a takeover play for its smaller rival iCar, after a company associated with the Kuala Lumpur-based entrepreneur, Patrick Grove, announced its intention to shed a 27 per cent stake in the business.

• Updated Sep 11, 2014
• Gretchen Friemann

• Investment banking

Merger with explorer helps MigMe to listing

Steven Goh, founder of Australia’s first online stockbroking firm Sanford Securities, will return to the local market later this month when his mobile gaming company MigMe completes a backdoor listing.

• Updated Jul 14, 2014
• Sally Rose

• Investment banking

hipages $6m PE boost sets scene for growth, marketing, ASX IPO

Australian online marketplace operator hipages Group has pledged to spend big on branding and marketing in its push to become a household name ahead of an expected Australian Securities Exchange IPO tilt.

• Updated Jun 10, 2014
• Sally Rose

Online classifieds offer potential in Asia

How would you like to go back in time and buy an online classifieds business back in 2004? Depending on your point of view, that’s the opportunity being presented by a second wave of ASX-listed companies with plans to make it big in Asia.

• Jun 4, 2014
• James Frost

• Market Wrap

iCar Asia marketing boosts audience numbers

An impressive performance for the three months to March 31, 2014, by iCar Asia triggered further positive share price momentum, leaving it sitting some 200 per cent ahead of where it was trading less than 12 months ago.

• Updated Apr 25, 2014
• Trevor Hoey

• Investment banking

Catcha execs aim to work their magic on iBuy

Catcha Group executives Patrick Grove and Luke Elliott are at the front of the pitch to the latest initial public offer hopeful, Asian online retail play iBuy.

• Nov 19, 2013
• Sarah Thompson, Anthony Macdonald and Gretchen Friemann

• Cars

Risk and reward in iCar’s rapid growth

While iCar Asia is a small business that is open to the risks of adapting to rapid growth and expansion into new countries, it has the potential to grow substantially off a low base.

• Updated Jul 29, 2013
• Trevor Hoey

• Opinion
• Opinion

iCar Asia makes key appointments

Recently listed iCar Asia has moved to shore up support for the stock, appointing a chief information officer and general manager of its Indonesian business.

• Sep 18, 2012
• Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald

• Opinion
• Opinion

iCarAsia starts trading

Investors will be watching for a strategic buyer when iCar Asia hits the ASX boards today, with some speculation the company has caught the eye of some larger listed players.

• Updated Sep 11, 2012
• Sarah Thompson and Anthony Macdonald