Equity Mates Investing Podcast

In the penultimate episode of our summer series, Bryce and Alec discuss Airbnb (NASDAQ:ABNB). This company has hosted over 1 billion total guests through their platform, and is bigger than their 3 largest competitors combined. What started as an idea floated by email between its two founders in 2007, as ‘a way to make a few bucks…” is now one of the leading disruptors of the shared economy in 2022...

We think Calix has the best tagline of all companies, ‘ Because Mars is for quitters.’ Calix provides industrial solutions to address global sustainability challenges, and has developed a kiln that captures CO2. Despite the stock being up around 500% in the last 12 months, the Calix journey might just be getting started. Bryce and Alec are joined by Phil Hodgson, the Managing Director and CEO of C...

One of the most popular New Year's resolutions is to ‘finally get fit’. In this episode, Bryce and Alec take a look at one of the companies that millions will turn to to do just that, the world’s largest interactive fitness platform - Peloton (NASDAQ:PTON). With a community of more than 6.2 million members, Peloton recently took the fitness world by storm, with a monumental shift to on-demand, at-...

Bryce and Alec delve into the company that minted two of Australia’s first tech billionaires, Mike Cannon-Brookes and Scott Farquhar. Atlassian Corporation (NASDAQ:TEAM) is a software company that develops collaboration tools for software engineers and project managers. Described as a “very boring software company” by the New York Times, Atlassian’s success story is the exact opposite. Though they...

In today’s episode, Bryce and Alec welcome Rob Adams on to the show, the CEO of one of Australia’s largest wealth managers, Perpetual Limited (ASX:PPT). Prior to being appointed CEO of Perpetual in 2018, Rob built a successful career in finance in Europe and Australia, with roles at Colonial First State, First State Investments, Challenge Financial and Janus Henderson. Rob explains the four busine...

In this episode Bryce and Alec are joined by Roby Sharon-Zipser, the CEO of Hipages Group (ASX:HPG). Hipages operates in the home improvement industry, and specialises in home improvement advertising services for tradies. The market encompasses services including renovations, repairs and maintenance, new builds and installations. We analyse the business model of Hipages and find out how they have...

Happy New Year Equity Mates! In this episode, Bryce and Alec dissect Beyond Meat (NASDAQ:BYND), a company aiming to facilitate the shift from traditional meat to plant-based meat. Based in California, Beyond Meat has partnerships with McDonalds, KFC & PizzaHut to sell their products in over 80 countries worldwide. Their plant-based meals emulate chicken, beef, pork, meatball and sausage. Beyon...

We’ve all spent hours trawling through realestate.com.au dreaming of our perfect home, but what’s the company behind this? The answer is REA Group (ASX:REA), the fourth business we’re analysing in our summer series. REA Group was founded in 1995 and has grown to become the 8th largest online brand in Australia. It has been a market darling of the ASX, delivering an eye-popping return of more than...

Our summer series of company deep dives continues this week with Bryce and Alec analysing an Australian success story. If you haven’t heard of F45 (NYSE:FXLV), they are a training and fitness community who deliver high-intensity group workouts that run for 45 minutes. Now it’s a globally recognised brand, listed on the New York Stock Exchange in the US, but F45 started with just one studio that op...

If you want to feel the Christmas love, this is the episode is for you. Bryce and Alec take a deep dive into Match Group (NASDAQ:MTCH), the world’s largest provider of online dating services. Their portfolio of apps includes Tinder, Hinge and Match. As over 40% of relationships in the US now start online, this is an industry we’d be cupid to ignore.  This summer, Superhero are partnering with...

The Summer break has arrived, but we’re not leaving you in the dark. We’re back for another Summer Series, taking a deep dive into 12 companies across Australia and the US which have been popular with our community. In this episode Bryce and Alec are taking a deep dive into BWX Limited (ASX:BWX) and are joined by their CEO Dave Fenlon. BWX Ltd is in the beauty and personal care industry, providing...

One of our fav and regular guests at Equity Mates, Andrew Brown is back to wrap up the year. Andrew discusses his bold predictions as well as explaining why valuation still matters. Andrew has some great lessons on valuation with some stunning examples. He also gives us his view looking ahead into 2022. As mentioned ... here is TDM’s Case Study on Peloton . Order Get Started Investing on Booktopia...

In this episode, the last chat for the year between Bryce & Alec. The lads announce the winner of their stock pick of the year. They discuss all the bold predictions they made at the beginning of the year, and how they shaped up. Then finally we go to the Equity Mates facebook group and talk through some of your bold predictions for 2021, and how they turned out now that we are in the final we...

Andrew Pridham AO is the co-founder of Moelis & Company, where he currently serves as the Vice Chairman and was previously the Chief Executive Officer. Andrew was previously Managing Director and Head of Investment Banking, Australasia at  UBS . He was appointed Managing Director at 28. He spent years working in London and Singapore as global head of real estate at UBS before returning to...

In this week's chat, Alec makes a very bold prediction involving Apple. Bryce and Alec go head-to-head on Woolies and Wesfarmers and the on market offer for API. The lads try to get their heads around crypto NFT property and land purchases, yep, you can now purchase land in the metaverse ... Speccy McGee gives us an update on how the rocket emoji indicator has gone over the last 12 months. The fin...

Eleanor Swanson is the founding partner at Firetrail, a boutique investment manager specialising in high conviction equity investing. In this episode, Eleanor breaks down the Aussie small-cap landscape and shares some of the best companies that she's come across during her time in the markets. Eleanor is presenting at this year’s Sohn Hearts & Minds Investment Leaders Conference , which is now...

A bubble has burst, has anyone noticed? Bryce and Alec talk through the current manscape ... sorry, that should be 'landscape'. From unprofitable tech stocks ... to inflation concerns ... to Web3 and joining a DAO ... to SPACs that focus below a mans belt. It wouldn't be a chat with the boys without them mentioning "Crypto", and Alec has an interesting theory on the scene of Crypto at the moment....

Yen Liow is the Managing Partner at Aravt Global LLC. He is presenting at this year’s Sohn Hearts & Minds Investment Leaders Conference, which is now in its 6th year. The conference has 12 local and international fund managers pitching their highest conviction stocks. Keynote speakers this year include, Charlie Munger Berkshire Hathaway and MIT Institute Professor Robert Langer, Co-Founder Mod...

This episode contains sponsored content by Fidelity Podcast Disclaimer | Fidelity Australia We all understand the importance of better resource use. As investors, why is this a good thematic to be exposed to? Velislava Dimitrova is the lead portfolio manager of Fidelity Sustainable Water & Waste fund. In this episode Bryce and Alec discuss Sustainable Water and Waste - and ask, what does...

There’s a lot of hype about Web3 at the moment. Bryce heard some a quote that said, “learning Web3 today is like buying Bitcoin at $10”. It could also be the greatest wealth creating opportunity we’ve seen. So in today's episode Alec throws Bryce the challenge of selling him on the opportunities of this new frontier. They'll walk through what the progression from Web1 to our current state looks li...

The inaugural Equity Mates Awards are coming. In this episode Bryce and Alec explain all about this new and exciting awards ceremony, click here to cast your vote . We're calling on you, our Equity Mates community to help recognise some amazing people, so please get involved! Then the guys do a quick portfolio update, and talk about Airbnb, Afterpay, Roblox, Russell 2000 ETF and Rivian. The lads c...

In this episode, Bryce and Alec chat to Alison Savas - Antipodes’ Client Portfolio Manager. Alison has almost two decades of experience in the investment management industry, working for leading managers in Australia and Singapore. Antipodes have an active-ETF listed on the ASX, ticker code AGX1. In this conversation they talk about decarbonisation, get Alison's thoughts on what is happe...

In this episode, Bryce and Alec talk to Chris Demasi, the co-founder and portfolio manager of Montaka Global Investments. Montaka run two ASX-listed funds Montaka Global Long Only Equities Fund (ASX: MOGL) and Montaka Global Extension Fund (ASX: MKAX). Chris talks to Alec and Bryce about how he defines private markets, the opportunity set they present, and then how we as retail investors can acces...

In this episode, Bryce and Alec speak to Eu-Jene Teng, a Client Portfolio Manager at Martin Currie Investment Management, a part of Franklin Templeton. A group that manages $2.1 trillion and is the 6th largest asset manager in the world. In this conversation they look at the opportunities arising in emerging markets, take a deep dive into the world of electric vehicles, and discover why Eu-Jene be...

In this episode we welcome back one of our favourite guests - Adam Dawes - the Senior Investment Advisor at Shaw & Partners. As Alec says, 'if you're going to do a Buy, Hold, Sell episode, there's one guy to do it'. The guys went out to the Equity Mates community, and ask Adam to give his opinion on whether he'd 'buy' or 'sell' stocks that you've asked to be reviewed. After going through the s...