Nick Griffin, Chief Investment Officer at Munro Partners, says that earnings growth will trump macro uncertainties “time after time”. Stocks that can grow consistently throughout the cycle will survive the volatility and come out stronger on the other side. He shares his simple three-rule process for identifying these stocks: Start by... Show More

Fund managers and CEOs around the world have been adjusting their estimates and guidance in the wake of the recent volatility. As defensive stocks have come back to the fore, and growth stocks have sold off, this has created an unexpected situation: based on EBITDA multiples, Amazon is currently cheaper... Show More

At the recent Future Generation Investment Forum, I nominated two of my best stock ideas. One, a domestic play with EPS growing at 20% over the next three years and the other, an international stock we think is set to double over the next five years. Show More

For decades, traditional wisdom held that value investing is the only way to outperform, and with good reason. Until the GFC, value had outperformed growth in all but a few brief periods, and those periods immediately preceded a major bear market. But for nearly a decade now, growth has produced... Show More

Munro Partners is an absolute return manager with a core focus on global growth equities. We target meaningful returns after all fees, and utilising our proprietary investment process we’ve managed to achieve that for 12 years. Since its launch in August 2016, our Munro Global Growth Fund has delivered a... Show More

Corporates are now spending heavily on digital transformation, not just for growth, but for their very survival. This creates a tailwind for providers of cloud computing, data analytics, and AI. Here we look at the winners from this theme, as well as the winners from two other powerful themes for... Show More

(Ed note: First published December 2017): At the start of December we asked 13 contributing Fund Managers for their ‘number one call for 2018’, for our new Livewire ‘Christmas Cracker’ series which you may have seen in recent weeks. In case you missed any of them, we have wrapped them... Show More

Common wisdom holds that investors make the lion’s share of their returns from the big winners (hence, the saying to ‘let your winners run’), but some of the most valuable lessons can come from the mistakes. We recently sat down with Nick Griffin, Head of Investments at Munro Partners to... Show More

The stock market is increasing recognising that the major video game publishers have morphed from “hit driven” business models around AAA game releases, to companies that have been able to build more sustainable franchises via steady gamer engagement through the product cycle. Digitisation of the gaming industry has allowed publishers... Show More

Research firm, Gartner, estimates that AI will power 85% of customer service interactions. In order to achieve this, massive investments will need to be made in two key areas; data, and computing power. In this video, Nick Griffin, Head of Investment at Munro Partners, explains the importance, and some of... Show More

Nick Griffin, Head of Investments at Munro Partners, has been living in the UK for the last two years, and it’s given him a unique perspective on the Australian economy. “We have an office in Edinburgh, the second largest financial centre in Europe. Scotland is a country that’s trying to... Show More

Nick Griffin, Head of Investments at Munro Partners says he has spent many years working to define the key characteristics of true growth companies. From a universe of over 24,000 stocks globally he says there are only 800 companies that truly meet his ‘growth' criteria. Griffin says of these 800... Show More

The gaming market has developed significantly since this author’s gateway game, the legendary Pong, or later through Frogger, Pac-Man or Missile Command on the Atari 2600. Today, the video game industry is a juggernaut. Video games, once the domain of teenage boys on home consoles, has now been opened up... Show More

Nick Griffin, Head of Investments at Munro Partners, says network effects strongly dominate the digital business world. A network effect is when a good or service becomes more valuable as it’s more widely adopted, creating a virtuous cycle. Examples include Google, or closer to home, CarSales.com.au and RealEstate.com.au. “Once you... Show More