Yes punters, it is again that time of the year when company directors reveal on the ASX where all of the hard-earned money tipped in by investors is being spent – or, in a much less common scenario for small-cap companies, perhaps being generated. Scouring through these financial reports can be a daunting task for the financially unsavvy, as it is often much more about what is not being said, or what has been shuffled to the back pages of the extensive quarterly reports, than

Is the widely-predicted third lithium wave finally ready to roll into the world’s investment market shores? Well, if a recent prediction from the UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD) is anything to go by, punters may soon have a need to slip on their boardies or bikinis. The group established by the UN’s General Assembly way back in 1964 forecast, after assessing new numbers put out by the International Energy Agency (IEA), that lithium demand could rise by more than a whopping