From Sundays AGE......JAMES KIRBYDecember 20, 2009I DON'T know...

From Sundays AGE......




JAMES KIRBY
December 20, 2009
I DON'T know about you, but I just love the blizzard of lists, reviews and oddball facts that get assembled this time of year. I've been scanning many ''best of 2009'' collections and I thought a splendid way to finish the year would be to rob, steal and plunder from the best of them - and so, without further ado, here are the gems.

1. Gerard Minack, the Australian stockbroker, who leads a global research team at Morgan Stanley, beat the pack in 2009. Minack forecast the bottom of the sharemarket slide with remarkable accuracy. When nobody was forecasting a severe fall, he said the ASX would drop (from a high of 6700) to 3000. As it turned out, it fell to 3030.

Now Minack and his team have released their list of top stocks for 2010. Only four Australian companies make it: Centennial Coal, Macquarie Bank, Newcrest Gold and Telstra. Take note of those four ''quality'' stocks!