Montaka's Spotlight Series

While the selloff in global equity markets this year has been unpleasant, it was not unusual. Listen to this interesting podcast featuring Andrew Macken and Chris Demasi from Montaka Global Investments where they discuss a hypothetical stock portfolio constructed with perfect foresight - Let's refer to it as 'God's portfolio' - would deliver stratospheric long-term returns… but sti...

Most investors are aware that artificial intelligence, or AI, is an important transformation. But many still underestimate the sheer world and life-changing power of this revolution and its investment potential. AI will recast and refashion every aspect of life: how we consume, how we work, how we monitor industrial machines, how we deliver healthcare, how wars are won, and how we solve climate ch...

Andy connects with Montaka's Senior Analyst, Amit Nath, from our New York office. Get to know how Amit’s background as a generalist investment banker and credit analyst helps him uncover great long-term investment opportunities for Montaka’s portfolio. #investment #thoughts #NY #analysis #research #global #equities Disclaimer: Issued by Montaka Global Pty Ltd ABN 62 604 878 533, AFSL 516942. T...

Andy chats to Chris about two key ingredients for long-term investing success: (i) portfolio concentration; and (ii) long-term patience. Chris  wrote about these winning fund manager characteristics in our August Monocle. A select set of active managers who run concentrated portfolios and patiently hold their positions have been shown to significantly outperform over the long term. With passive st...

Chris talks to Andy about a piece he wrote for the Montaka Monocle last year titled: Why have investors become theme junkies? Each year investors will be served up an array of exciting new themes to consider. The only problem is - as you’ll hear in our discussion - it remains far from clear if many of these new themes are even themes at all. #investing #howto #stocks #equities #themes Disclaimer:...

Andrew Macken & Chris Demasi discuss the significant equity market volatility that has characterised the beginning of 2022. US inflation and interest rate expectations seem to be the sole focus of the markets. But Andy & Chris step through some important reasons why equity markets may well have already overshot to the downside. #Stocks #Inflation #Equities #ASX #HowToInvest #BuySellHold Di...