Huge winners like Facebook don’t come along very often, and they’re incredibly difficult to identify when they do. So how can investors benefit from these big winners, minus some of the uncertainties? Bill Pridham, Co-Portfolio Manager at Ellerston Global Investments believes in the ‘selling pickaxes to gold miners’ approach. Show More
It seems everyone out there wants to invest in the hot new thing. You mention a company which has “big data,” “cloud computing infrastructure,” “artificial intelligence,” “machine learning,” “robotics,” and investors go weak at the knees. In the current environment, investors want to buy the latest and greatest technology players.... Show More
Investors in self-managed super funds (SMSFs) don’t seem to ascribe to traditional approaches of modern portfolio theory. According to its architect, Harry Markowitz, investors can design an ‘optimal’ portfolio to maximise returns by taking on risk – and risk can be managed through diversification across asset classes. Show More
Concerned that the nine-year bull run has overstayed its welcome, many strategists have highlighted the narrow leadership of the US stock market as it has bucked weakening trends elsewhere in the world. Through June, the so-called FAANG stocks had accounted for 75% of the S&P 500’s 2.64% total return, in... Show More
When you pull up your car at a railway crossing in the Pilbara, you can afford to switch off the engine and get out to stretch your legs – you’ll be waiting for quite a while as wagon after wagon rumble by. While peace is restored soon enough, it’s only... Show More
From my initial visits to China in the early part of last decade, one element which stood out was the sheer scale of the industrial economy and the implications which a market of that size had on domestic manufacturing and industrial companies. In the construction equipment sector in 2005 it... Show More
Hard landing? Not even close. China's GDP growth is stabilising. The country is riding on the dual trends of a growing tech and consumer culture. From almost nowhere, its private companies are becoming world-beaters in high-growth tech sectors, from smartphones to civilian drones, e-commerce to ride-sharing. Show More
China might seem like an unlikely candidate for innovation as it is traditionally better known for contract or original equipment manufacturing. However, with its natural advantage of a vast talent pool, financing and market access, China has most of the ingredients needed to transform into the “Silicon Valley of the... Show More
Research shows that founder-led companies outperform. While that might not be surprising given the recent share price performance of US tech titans such as Amazon, Alphabet, Netflix and Facebook, which are led by their founders, research shows that this phenomenon isn’t limited to the technology sector (see charts below). Show More
While ‘technology’ was once a distinct industry, today there is technology in every business and every sector globally. Being a successful investor in this environment means buying businesses that can stay ahead of the curve, explains Garry Laurence, Portfolio Manager at Perpetual Limited. He shares the example of Nasdaq; while... Show More
Check out our key takeaways from Amazon’s Innovation Day, plus catch up on other notable things that happened around the world this week, and what it all means for you and your investments. Show More
Allergan (NYSE: AGN) is a specialty pharmaceutical company operating in the research, development and manufacture of pharmaceutical products. The company offers a portfolio of products that provide treatment for the central nervous system, gastroenterology, women's health and urology, ophthalmology, neurosciences, medical aesthetics, dermatology, plastic surgery, liver disease, inflammation, metabolic syndromes,... Show More
It is difficult to consider Australia’s economic future without considering the extraordinary technological change that is impacting industries, the economy, indeed society itself, at an accelerating pace and in ways that are hard to foresee. As a high cost, low productivity nation, our goal must be to harness innovation, as... Show More
In the first "40 under 40" podcast series , I sit down with Robert Shand , Age 35, who is Managing Director of Blue Sky Alternative Investments Limited. Show More
Recent developments – including the rise of populism, developments in the South China Sea and around commodity prices along with relentless technological innovation – have relevance for longer term trends likely to affect investors. Being aware of such megatrends is critical given the short-term noise that surrounds markets. Key megatrends... Show More
Nouriel Roubini sees pain ahead for the global economy and markets, with a slowdown or recession being the possible outcomes in 2016. “I would rule out the recession scenario because that would require a collapse of China, a collapse of emerging markets, and a stall of growth in the US,... Show More
Denver Based Marsico Capital Management’s top performing Global Equity Fund is now available to Australian sophisticated investors. Tom Marsico, the veteran consumer, tech and healthcare portfolio manager runs the strategy and typically invests in innovative growth franchises that exhibit above-trend growth, strong returns on capital that are gaining market share... Show More
Regardless of Macro environment, Marsico Capital are particularly focused on franchises that could be characterized as “disrupters”. These include companies that exhibit a business model potent enough to redistribute the revenue or profit pool of an existing industry to themselves, even as other participants struggle with the classic innovator’s dilemma... Show More
Aussie market started with a big move up in line with US sentiment before Resource sector lead profit taking ate up all the outperformance. Bank sector to benefit from dividends flowing back while gold sector looks interesting as the market gets over US rate rise risk and AUDUSD holds up... Show More
Satyajit Das, author of “A Banquet of Consequences” argues that innovation is slowing and todays startups in the computing and technology spaces are delivering disappointingly small changes when compared with the step-changes of former eras. “Between 1960 and 1990 when the initial phase of computing went through and particularly in... Show More