Month: October 2023

The perfect compliment to our Get Started Investing podcast series. Every week we’ll break down one key component of the world of finance to help you get started on your investing journey. Perfect for beginner investors or for those that want a refresher on some key investing terms and concepts.

With 400,000 new residents in 2022-23 and another 300,000 forecast for 2023-24, many housing experts believe that will create demand and keep prices rising.

With so much content released across the Equity Mates network every week, it can be easy to miss something. Catch up on anything you missed with our weekly round up.

Read on for some of the Tweets, articles & memes from the past week.

In this article, Damodaran looks at climate investing and asks whether the trillions of dollars allocated over the past decade has moved the needle.

Today, more than one third of all Americans are over 50. Every day 10,000 Americans are turning 65 and by 2030, one in five of us will be 65 or over

The perfect compliment to our Get Started Investing podcast series. Every week we’ll break down one key component of the world of finance to help you get started on your investing journey. Perfect for beginner investors or for those that want a refresher on some key investing terms and concepts.

This article dives into the media business and makes the case that in an era of increased competition for attention and reduced CPM’s (advertiser speak for revenue per 1,000 impressions), many publishers are falling into a doom loop.

This article takes a closer look at the internet bubble and draws parallels to the Artificial Intelligence hype of today. From this article and Perez’s work, a few of our takeaways for when we think about investing in disruptive technology:

Energy storage is one of the biggest challenges of our transition to a net zero electricity grid. These days, there are plenty of options to generate electricity - solar, wind, hydro - but far fewer options to store electricity.  

Storage is important because it can change renewable energy from volatile (generate a lot of electricity, cheaply when the sun is shining and the wind is blowing and then nothing at other times) to reliable. Right now, the world can’t move away from coal or gas as providers of baseload power - the always on, always reliable power source - because of the volatility of renewables. 

With so much content released across the Equity Mates network every week, it can be easy to miss something. Catch up on anything you missed with our weekly round up.

One year ago, Roland Gotthard was thinking a lot about mud. 

He had the rights to test the ground under Lake Hope, a playa or dried lake 500km east of Perth in Western Australia, and believed that the ground underneath the lake may contain minerals that could be turned into High Purity Alumina (HPA). 

Over a week, he collected 500kg of mud from Lake Hope and sent it off for testing. 

Learn about Derivatives: An Easy-to-Understand Introduction. Break down derivatives, what they are, and how they work. Grasp the basics of financial derivatives quickly.

This week in crypto: Bitcoin Surges 10% on Fake Blackrock ETF News 🚀 Read on for some of the Tweets, articles & memes from the past week.

This was an interesting summary of some of the investing philosophies of the best investors in history: Benjamin Graham, Warren Buffett, Howard Marks, George Soros, Seth Klarman and Monish Pabrai.

In this quarterly report, Andrew unpacks his fund’s performance and then goes deep on one of his portfolio companies - Virtu Financial (NASDAQ: VIRT).

The perfect compliment to our Get Started Investing podcast series. Every week we’ll break down one key component of the world of finance to help you get started on your investing journey. Perfect for beginner investors or for those that want a refresher on some key investing terms and concepts.

This article take a look at the luxury market and tries to understand how we can approach these companies as investors.

Self-checkout. That mysterious invention that has seen consumption of brown onions skyrocket and that of avocado plummet.

Welcome to the world of computer memory. Here’s what you need to know from the outset: there are two main types of computer memory that are used in most of our devices.

• DRAM, or dynamic random-access memory, is a type of semiconductor memory that is fast, flexible and temporary. It is best used for processing data and running applications. It loses data when power is taken away.

• NAND Flash memory is ideal for large, stable and permanent storage such as storing data and files. It stores data even when power is taken away.

With so much content released across the Equity Mates network every week, it can be easy to miss something. Catch up on anything you missed with our weekly round up.