At Equity Mates Media, we’ve got two podcasts designed to help new investors and those who are yet to get started. Here’s what we’re chatting about this week…
This week on Get Started Investing, we put two of the most popular cybersecurity ETFs head to head.
There’s been plenty happening in the world of cybersecurity. From Optus to Medibank Private, and now a subsidiary of Woolworths has been hacked. Bryce & Alec discuss the environment and more particularly the investing opportunities in companies and ETF’s firmly entrenched in the combat and development of cybersecurity.
[Listen to the episode here]
Maddy and Sophie from You’re In Good Company feature a recent episode of The Dive on the pod this week.
A few weeks ago, Taylor Swift fans almost broke the internet trying to buy tickets for her upcoming tour. Hardly anyone could get their hands on a ticker, and Ticketmaster accepted responsibility for not being able to handle the demand. But there’s a bigger story – Ticketmaster is basically a monopoly and pays itself big service fees for selling tickets. In this episode we dig into Ticketmaster’s monopoly and how it affects the entertainment industry.
[Listen to the episode here]
Hey, this got us thinking
On today’s episode of Get Started Investing, Bryce and Alec chat about cybersecurity and compare two of the most popular ETFs in the space.
Now cybersecurity is a hot topic at the moment. Whether or not you’re interested in it as an investment is one question, but there’s no denying it’s something we need to be aware of.
- Some estimates show that a cyberattack happens every 44 seconds somewhere in the world.
- A new report has found that cybercrime will cost the world $10.5 trillion (yes TRILLION) per year by 2025.
It’s hard to fathom numbers that big. But this might help: $10.5 trillion would make you the third largest country in the world by GDP. A lot of money.
So if we’re predicted to lose $10.5 trillion a year to cybercrime by 2025, there is obviously going to be an opportunity for cybersecurity companies to try stop that from happening.
This is why cybersecurity has become a really popular investment especially in the last few years.
That got us reading…
Seeing some of those stats above blew our minds. So we thought we’d share the articles we saw to get them. If you didn’t know how important cybersecurity is / will become, check out these numbers!
[Check out some of the wild stats here]
[We’re expected to lose $10.5 trillion annually by 2025]
Something a little extra…
Hey, if you hadn’t heard, our newest podcast The Dive Business News won Best Business Podcast of 2022 at the Australian Podcast Awards last week!
And if you want to stay up to date with what’s happening in the world of business (sounds boring but we make it fun), we have an Instagram account for The Dive – @thedivebusinessnews
We think there’s a gap in the way people receive their news. We want to deliver business news in an easily digestible and easy to understand way. Give us a follow to keep up to date with the world!
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FYI
A resource that we’re continuously building is our book recommendations page.
Over the Equity Mates journey so far, we’ve had hundreds of expert investors join us on the show. And each time we interview them, we ask for a book recommendation that helped them.
Some of them are investing specific, others are business-based and some are just great all-round reads. You can check out the book recommendation list here.
And Finally
If you missed out on FinFest this year, don’t worry! We’ve been releasing the recordings of each session on our YouTube Channel. There is so much amazing content on there.
If you want to register your interest for next year, this is the place!
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