Equity Mates Investing Podcast

Phil is the CEO and Managing Director of Pacific Smiles Group (ASX: PSQ), an Australian dental group operating over 100 dental centres under the Pacific Smile Dental Care and the NIB Dental Care brands, located throughout NSW, Victoria, Queensland and the ACT. Prior to joining Pacific Smiles in 2018, Phil was the driver of Apple’s retail entry into Australia as Apple’s Australian Market Director a...

You might have heard the whispers in the Equity Mates community... Woolworths have merged their drinks businesses - Dans, BWS - with their hospitality business - ALH - to form Endeavour Group. This was completed in February 2020 and Woolworths’ intention was to pursue a separation of Endeavour Group from Woolworths Group. The resulting demerger will create two independent ASX-listed companies with...

It's the final episode in our series celebrating the ASX Investor Day. In case you missed the live sessions held around the country over the past month, we’ve partnered with the ASX to bring you some of the best sessions and experts from the conference. It's been an epic week, that we've absolutely loved hosting. The theme of this episode is “Three Fundamental Rules Of Investing” with Kyle Ma...

Welcome to episode four in our special mini-series celebrating everything ASX Investor Day. In case you missed the live sessions held around the country over the past month, we’ve partnered with the ASX to bring you some of the best sessions and experts from the conference. Today we’re going to cover investing in emerging markets with Anthony Doyle from Fidelity. Anthony is a cross-asset inve...

Welcome to the third of our episodes celebrating the ASX Investor Day. If you weren't lucky enough to be there in person, this is where we bring you the best of the live sessions held around the country. Thanks to our partners at the ASX, we speak to some of the best experts who gave the most interesting presentations. Today is all about investing in megatrends with Kanish Chugh from ETF Securitie...

This week is all about the ASX Investor Day and this episode is the second of our special mini-series. If you missed the live sessions held around the country over the past month, then you're in luck! Equity Mates have partnered with the ASX to bring you some of the best sessions and experts from the conference. The theme of this episode is ‘Investing In Global Markets’ and we’re joined by CI...

Welcome to ASX week! This week we're dropping one episode every day, thanks to the ASX Investor Day - who gave us access to their array of incredible presenters to bring you some of the best sessions and experts from the conference. Today we’re joined by Adam Dawes, Senior Investment Advisor of Shaw & Partners, who held a buy, hold and sell session for ASX Investor Day attendees. We wante...

Brain is an Australian business executive who was the Managing Director and CEO of Westpac from 2014 to 2020. He has recently released a book, The Leadership Star: A Practical Guide to Building Engagement . In this episode he talks specifically about the his key leadership learnings, and personal career perspectives, and answers questions about his time guiding Westpac through the Royal Commission...

Geoff Wilson AO is the Chairman and Chief Investment Officer at Wilson Asset Management . With over 41 years experience in investment markets, Geoff founded Wilson Asset Management in 1997 and currently oversees 8 Listed Investment Companies (LICs). Geoff has also led the creation of Australia’s first listed philanthropic wealth creation vehicles, Future Generation Australia and Future Generation...

Back in April, we hosted an awesome live show in Sydney at Atomic Beer Project, and we're stoked to be able to share the audio from the event! This is Part II of our panel conversation, unpacking the alcohol industry. Some of our favourite resources and offers to help you during your journey: $50-$200 OFF some amazing investing courses by our friend-of-the-show, Owen Track your investment portfoli...

Back in April, we hosted an awesome live show in Sydney at Atomic Beer Project, and we're stoked to be able to share the audio from the event! This is Part I of our panel conversation, unpacking the alcohol industry. Some of our favourite resources and offers to help you during your journey: $50-$200 OFF some amazing investing courses by our friend-of-the-show, Owen Track your investment portfolio...

Marcus is the founder of Marcus Today , a daily stock market newsletter, and runs an $80 million Australian equities fund. We’ve previously had Marcus on the podcast and his episode ‘No Bullshit Investing’ is one of our most popular. So we’ve got him back on the show for ‘No Bullshit Investing Part II’ to help us unpack current market conditions. Alec and Bryce ask Marcus to walk them through his...

This episode truly is epic. Alec takes a break, and Bryce takes the driver's seat, as he runs through 30 investments in 30 minutes. (All in celebration of his 30th birthday). As said it's 'a wrap up of some of my favourite companies and ideas over the last 5 years of Equity Mates and the journey we have been on.' In addition to his own epic list, Bryce out-sourced some of his research to some cert...

This episode, Bryce and Alec sit down with David Halpert. He's been active in capital markets for 30 years, and founded Prince Street Capital in 2001 and is the CIO and Portfolio Manager of the firm. In this chat, we talk about not only David's personal story with investing, but his thoughts on 'Digital Decolonisation,' the way big technology companies have been able to ‘colonise’ the world has be...

On today's Watchlist episode, Bryce and Alec invite Julia Lee from CIO Burman Invest to join them again on the podcast. This time, it's for a Mastermind style episode, where all three of them pitch three different stocks that have their attention. Also, at the top of the episode, Bryce mentioned that Equity Mates members get a special rate for the Australia Shareholders Association Annual Investor...

In today's episode, Alec and Ren take a look at the clothing industry, (not within Ren’s circle of competence) but a fascinating industry all the same. The world consumes five times the amount of clothing it did twenty years ago, and approximately 80 billion new pieces of clothing are produced every single year. In Australia, the market size alone is $16 billion, and 24 333 businesses are involved...

Bill is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, which at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia, and in 1997 was the best performing fund in the world - up 238%! Bill was the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, a law to punish Russian human rights violators, which was signed into law by President Obama in 2012 and subsequently adopted by a number of gover...

On this episode, we talk to Mary Manning. She's a Portfolio Manager at Ellerston Capital for the Ellerston Asian Growth Fund, Ellerston Asian Investments (ASX:EAI) and the Ellerston India Fund. Prior to joining Ellerston, Mary spent 5 years at Oaktree Capital Management, the famous firm co-founded by Howard Marks. Mary has a MBA from Harvard and a PhD in Economics from Sydney University and is one...

On today's episode, we've invited members of the Student Managed Investment Fund (SMIF) at The University of Western Australia back on the show to pitch for the community watchlist. Last year we heard from their Chief Investment Officer, Ben, who pitched Citadel on the podcast. SMIF operates a high conviction fund undertaking positions in ASX listed companies following the end to end analysis...

In this episode, Alec and Bryce chat to Ben Gisz, who's the co-founder of TDM Growth Partners. Ben, along with co-founders Hamish Corlette and Tom Cowan, has grown TDM’s assets under management from $1 million to over $1 billion. Ben is also a non-executive director in Pacific Smiles (ASX: PSQ), one of TDM’s portfolio companies. In this conversation Ben talks about his unusual first investment, TD...

It's the most eagerly anticipated episode of 2021! We sit down for a chat with Larry Diamond - the founder and CEO of one of the ASX’s hottest stocks and one of the most discussed companies in the Equity Mates community, Zip Co (ASX: Z1P). Prior to founding Zip, Larry spent four years at Macquarie Bank and two years at Deutsche Bank. In this episode, Alec and Bryce chat to Larry, and hear his thou...

Every quarter, investors large and small write client letters. Reading these can be an incredible source of information, so in today's episode, Bryce and Alec talk about two letters they've read recently. They've chosen one big investor ( David Einhorn ) and one small ( Ensemble Fund ), and together they discuss some of the big ideas they've gleaned from both. Some of our favourite resources and o...

On today's episode, we feature another episode in our CEO series, and speak to Brickworks' (ASX:BKW) CEO & Managing Director, Lindsay Partridge. Lindsay has a background as a ceramic engineer, and is currently one of Australia’s longest-serving public company CEOs. He was appointed CEO of Brickworks Ltd in 1999 and Managing Director in 2000. On the occasion of the Queen's Diamond Jubilee 2012...

In today's episode Bryce and Ren deep dive into the investing potential of the most common chemical in the universe: Hydrogen. In 2019, over 70 million tonnes of hydrogen was used in industrial processing, and the amazing future possibilities of Green hydrogen has a lot of people very excited. Together the guys talk about the different terminology you might have come across, the context of the ind...

Did you know Equity Mates has a TV show? Four times a week, for fifteen minutes, Bryce and Alec host a show on Ausbiz . Every day at 4.15, we break down financial jargon, talk to our favourite experts, and dive into the industries that interest us. In today's episode, we've decided to feature two of our favourite recent chats: Tobias Bucks, from Ausbil Investment Management, and Nick Cregan of Fai...