Equity Mates Investing Podcast

For this episode, we were joined by financial advisor and fellow podcaster Victoria Devine. Victoria is the co-founder of Zella, a financial advice business based in Melbourne, and founder of She's on the Money, a financial education platform empowering women with the tools and confidence they need to change their financial situations. As an expert on personal finance, Victoria shared plenty of im...

It’s time for another investment committee meeting for the Equity Mates Hypothetical Portfolio. As we continue this learning experience of building out a hypothetical portfolio, we hear Bryce's first stock pitch. Bryce has chosen one of the large software companies over in the States - Salesforce (CRM). For more information on the Equity Mates Hypothetical Portfolio – head to our  Portfolio w...

Every year, the ASX survey Australian investors to take the pulse of the Australian investment community. They look at who's investing, what they're focusing on and trends that are emerging throughout the investor landscape. The ASX have just released their 2020 study and we were joined by Rory Cunningham to discuss what they found. Rory is the Senior Manager of Investment Products at the ASX. He...

In today's episode we take a look at the fast growing cyber security industry. There's a lot of reasons to like this industry. With more and more of our infrastructure being electrified, and everything from our jobs to our social lives moving online, cyber security has never been more important. In the coming years, the internet of things will connect everything from our fridge to our car, and the...

The past few months have seen an unprecedented monetary policy response from the US Federal Reserve. Under the guise of doing 'whatever it takes' to keep the markets and economy stable, the Fed has printed money at rates never seen before, with much of it ending up in financial markets. To help us understand what the long-term implications of this policy setting will be, we spoke to Lyn Alden, an...

Building the hypothetical portfolio is as much about hearing ideas from the Equity Mates community as it is about our ideas. In this week's episode, we welcome Ben, from University Of Western Australia Student Managed Investment Fund , for the first listener stock pitch! Ben and the team have spent time analysing Citadel Group Ltd (ASX: CGL), so we invited him on to pitch the stock for the Equity...

In today's interview, we sat down with founder and lead investment analyst at Rask Invest, Owen Raszkiewicz. Owen is an expert in small cap investing and the founder of two successful investing podcasts - The Australian Investors Podcast and The Australian Finance Podcast. In this interview we unpack Owen's investing philosophy and then go deep on two particular areas of the Australian market - sm...

It's time for the first investment committee meeting for the Equity Mates Hypothetical Portfolio. As we continue this learning experience of building out a hypothetical portfolio, we hear the first stock pitch. To kick it off we discuss a stock that has performed particularly well over the past few years - Magellan Financial Group (ASX: MFG). For more information on the Equity Mates Hypothetical P...

Reporting season is one of the most important times of the year for the stock market. All listed companies are required to update the market on how they've been going, and in August every year the majority of Australian companies report their full year results. So we've taken some of our favourite names and discussed their results on today's podcast. We also discuss our overall impressions of FY20...

This episode is the audio recording from our ASK THE EXPERTS: ETF Special with Equity Mates & BetaShares. The session was a live, virtual Q&A with the co-founder of Betashares, Ilan Israelstam. The questions we ask during the session have all come from the Equity Mates community, and cover a wide variety of topics. The key themes and questions of the night are below: Building an ETF Portfo...

In this interview we sit down with global small cap expert Nick Cregan. Nick is a portfolio manager at Fairlight Asset Management, a fund manager specialising in global small and mid caps. In this interview we asked Nick to take us through three specific small caps he's been looking at. Ideally, three we've never heard of. He obliged and took us through the research process and investing thesis fo...

2020 has been crazy and there is no doubt it’s going to finish differently to what we anticipated back in January. Given we’re half-way through, we thought we would check-in on our bold predictions, and answer the question ‘will it finish differently?’ For this episode we’ve teamed up with our mates at Jacob’s Creek and their Double Barrel Range , which is, perhaps like 2020, finished differently....

It's that time of year again, where companies report their performance to their shareholders, and the market. Over in the US, companies report every quarter, so we're seeing Quarter 2 results coming through at the moment, and the first indication of the impact of COVID-19 on revenue and profits. Australian companies report every half, and we've just started to see the FY20 full-year results come t...

This was such a fun episode! When we noticed that Usman Khawaja was part of the Equity Mates community, we reached out to see where he was at on his investing journey. It turned out that he'd just started, and had put money in the markets right before the COVID-19 crash in March. Given that it was the fastest crash in history, we thought Usman would have some lessons to share, so we go him on to c...

Our hypothetical portfolio is nearly at the stage where we can start building it out. The rules are in place, the core and satellite portfolios have been defined, and now all that's left is for us to finish the components of the core, and decide what to do with Afterpay! In this episode, we: Review current satellite portfolio and decide if we want to sell Review your feedback on the last two episo...

Christopher Joye is well-known as one of Australia’s leading economists, policy advisors and fund managers. He is the Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager at Coolabah Capital Investments. Christopher founded Coolabah Capital in 2011 and leads the portfolio management effort that has produced one of Australia’s top short-term fixed-interest capabilities. Christopher is also a Contributi...

We're back for another Ask Us Anything episode. We take some of the questions asked through our website and the Equity Mates Facebook Discussion Group and answer them on the show. In this episode we answer questions on: Tax implications of rebalancing your portfolio Investing with COVID uncertainty Participating in share reinvestment plans for international shares The opportunities to invest in th...

Emilie O'Neill is an ESG and equities analyst for Perennial and does a large portion of the research for the eInvest Future Impact Small Caps Fund (Managed Fund) (ASX:IMPQ) . In this episode we were interested in understanding the day-to-day work of a research analyst, and the process Emilie follows to uncover stocks that fit in the ESG universe, and eventually end in her portfolio. In this episod...

Afterpay (ASX: APT) has captured the imagination of every Australian investor recently. Up more than 700% since the depths of COVID in March, it is leading a collection of Buy Now, Pay Later stocks that have seen unbelievable returns over the past few months. The company recently released a share purchase plan (aka capital raising) to the market - selling shares at $66 per share. With a lot of que...

In today's episode we continue building our renewed hypothetical portfolio. We are taking a 'core and satellite' approach to this portfolio, so we spend this episode discussing the strategy for the core portfolio. We then select some specific ETFs that will form the basis of our core portfolio. In this episode you will learn: The principles of a 'core and satellite' portfolio Our investing philoso...

We were delighted to have Danielle Ecuyer join us for this episode, to go back to basics with share investing. Danielle has just launched her new book ' Shareplicity - A Simple Approach To Share Investing ', which we found to be a great read. Danielle trained as a share equities analyst in the late 1980s, before relocating to London in the 1990s where she transitioned her expertise to Institutiona...

Way back when we started Equity Mates we also started a hypothetical portfolio. We would add a new stock each week/month, but as we got busier, we put it on the sidelines. In this episode we revive the hypothetical portfolio. It's been sitting there, untouched, since 2017, which is why you will see some questionable stocks in there, as well as some that have done very well. We also use this episod...

In this episode we sit down with Matt Leibowitz - founder & CEO of Stake, and a good friend of the show. COVID-19 sent investors into a frenzy. We saw the fastest market drop in history, and have now witnessed the fastest recovery in history as well. We wanted to know what were the stocks that were hot, and the ones that were not, during this period in the States. Matt had some data to help us...

From Warren Buffett to someone researching their first stock, every investor starts their journey in the same way - signing up to a broker. With so many options available these days it can be difficult to know where to start. Even for experienced investors, the industry is constantly changing, making it hard to know if there is a better option out there. So given there have been some new entrants...

It was an absolute honour to have the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, join us on the show. Malcolm has recently released his biography 'A Bigger Picture', and there were some incredible stories in there about his time in finance before he got into politics. In this episode, we unpack 'Malcolm the investor', to get an insight into his life as an incredibly successful lawyer and...