The big iron ore miners are the next casualty

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From The Australian:

Wes Campbell, senior portfolio manager JCP Investment Partners, has told clients that from a portfolio perspective, the investment manager was happy to maintain its exposure to the lowest-cost producers of iron ore that “stand to benefit from increased volume as they displace higher-cost producers’’.

“We expect that once the iron ore price settles at or around our long-run forecast of $US67 a tonne, the market will then focus on the free cash generation of BHP and Rio.”

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.