This week’s On the Couch is with Betmakers (BET) COO Jake Henson. Given that we own BET in the MT Growth Portfolio, we thought it would be a good idea to catch up with all the trackside action and hear the story from the horses’ mouth. We talk about the opportunities ahead, BET’s recent Sportech…
My first car was paid for with the cash I earned cutting water cress in Whitwell for 10 hours a day, six days a week for ten weeks in the summer of 1979. I had to stand or kneel all day in water, bending up and down. Health and safety at work was a thing…
Welcome to another special episode of ‘On the Couch’ with Henry Jennings from Marcus Today. This week I am talking to Doug Morris, the CEO of Sharesight. Some members will be familiar with this portfolio tracking platform and Doug runs through some of its features. We talk, Bitcoin, NFTs and the rise of fintechs and…
Welcome to another special episode of ‘On the Couch’ with Henry Jennings from Marcus Today. This week we are joined on the couch by John Forwood, the CIO from Lowell Resource Funds Management (LRT). John is a qualified lawyer and geologist experienced in the resources sector. He has 17 years of resources financing experience with…
Join us On the Couch with John Caulfield from Van Eck talking all things ETF with a special focus on the newly listed CLNE and VLUE ETFs giving investors exposure to emerging clean energy and value stocks. A great look at what is driving these ETFs and why they offer good long-term investment potential.
This week we catch up with Portfolio Manager Jun Bei Liu from Tribeca Investment Partners. Jun Bei is a familiar face on financial news media and a truly passionate investor. Jun Bei manages a $1bn long short fund with Tribeca and is a regular participant in prestigious conferences such as Sohn as well as appearances…
I was asked last week about getting exposure to space. Not an easy one to be exposed to and maybe there are better markets and companies out there but there are three on the ASX that sprang to mind. First up is the one that everyone got excited about Electro Optic Systems (ASX: EOS) In the…
In 1623. A single tulip bulb sold for a thousand Dutch florins, seven times the average annual wage. The average tulip trader made sixty thousand florins a month. 400 times the annual wage. 40 bulbs sold for 100,000 florins. You could have bought 3,333 pigs for the same price. People were selling possessions to speculate…
Most fund managers have an Investment Philosophy. For some it is little more than a marketing blurb on their website, for others it is their core. An “Investment Philosophy” for professional fiund managers is required for compliance purposes (compliance with compliance) but it goes beyond that. An Investment Philosophy, whilst it can be updated and…
