One of the biggest takeaways from our Sydney live show was the potential of investing with leverage. In a night where there was some healthy disagreement amongst the panel (in particular on investing v trading, and on short-selling) there was general agreement that leverage can be a useful tool for young people investing with a long time horizon. Leverage is …

Short selling is the act of betting on the price of an asset to go down. It is very topical in Australia at the moment, with the controversy over short-seller J Capital Research releasing a report about software-company WiseTech Global (ASX: WTC). WiseTech is a market darling in Australia, up over 100% year-to-date, but fell 25% after J Capital released …

You’ve heard it before – ‘knowledge is power’ – and when it comes to investing, improving your knowledge can be achieved by reading, and reading, and reading. Almost every expert investor we have interviewed has said the best thing  you can do to improve your performance is to read and read widely. We’ve previously spoken about the traditional places we …

WeWork has been front of mind over the past few weeks. The office space leasing company funded by Softbank’s Vision Fund had expected a $47 billion value at IPO. Instead, the company had to pull its IPO as its expected value dropped to below $20 billion. Days later, the company dismissed the co-founder and CEO Adam Neumann. After pulling the …

There is a big, wide world of opportunity out there, and one of the biggest mistakes investors can make is to not explore it. This mistake, when an investor only invests in their home market, is known as ‘home country bias’. Think about it this way – Australia is 2% of the total value of the global share market. So …

Earnings season – that time of the year when public companies report their half year or full year financial results. We’re about halfway through the season at the moment and we’ve seen some very noteworthy reports so far. The most important thing to keep in mind when companies report – don’t get too caught up in the expectations game. Analysts …

The Australian stock market makes up approx. 3% of the global stock market. Even the US stock market is just over 50% of the global stock market. As such, its important to avoid ‘home country bias’ and expand your investing universe to take advantage of opportunity around the world. Especially today with technology making it easier than ever before to …

There’s been plenty happening in markets recently, and even with 2 episodes a week we haven’t had a chance to discuss it all. So in this episode we catch up on a few topics we’ve had our eye on. This includes changes in our personal investing journeys, new products for investors we’re trying and big changes in the world of …

Our long awaited and often requested lithium episode is finally here. Lithium is a key component to batteries for electric cars and renewable energy generation – making it a critical component of the current transformation of our energy grid. This has put lithium miners front and centre of people’s minds and lead to a stock market boom in many lithium …

New Financial Year seems like a good time to review the predictions we made at the start of the year (also Bryce’s book still hasn’t arrived for our monthly bookclub – thanks Amazon – so we’ve had to delay that). So enjoy listening as we review some of our predictions from 6 months ago. There are some that we can …

Ethical investing is becoming increasingly popular, and it’s also delivering some great returns. Due to popular demand, we’ve dedicated this episode to explore ethical, socially responsible and sustainable investing. According to the Responsible Investment Association Australasia, “responsible investment is a process that takes into account environmental, social, governance (ESG) and ethical issues into the investment process of research, analysis, selection …

The RBA made history last week. For the first time in nearly three years they moved interest rates. Notably, the moved interests rates down, cutting the cash rate to historic lows – just 1.25%. For context, at the depth of the Global Financial Crisis – rates were 3%. In this episode we go back to basics and explain what the …

First episode of the month means one thing – Equity Mates Book Club. Last month we read Sam Walton’s book Made in America. By telling the story of one of the greatest ever American business people, Made in America tells the story of Walmart. Starting in 1962 with a handful of stores it charts the journey to the giant of …

For this episode we’re reliving one of our favourite all-time episodes – our interview with Alan Kohler. Released in September 2017 (episode 18 of Equity Mates) we spoke to the ABC Journalist and former editor of the Australian Financial Review about his life, career and thoughts on the market. We’re hoping all of our new Equity Mates enjoy hearing one …

With the Australian Federal Election now in the books, there are a number of CEO’s out there either licking their wounds or celebrating their good fortune. Some of the policies announced by the major parties would’ve had big effects on the fortunes of their companies. A few days before the election we spent some time looking at a few key …

Part 2 of our Berkshire Hathaway Annual Meeting special sees Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger answer a range of questions from investments in American Express and Sees Candy to their thoughts on automation and what that will mean for jobs. If you missed Part 1, you can listen here or in your podcast feed. Questions in this Episode: Sees Candy …

There were two big celebrations of investing over the weekend. In the Southern Hemisphere – the Equity Mates 100 Episode Party. In the Northern Hemisphere – Berkshire Hathaway’s 2019 Annual Meeting. The Berkshire Annual Meeting (also known as Woodstock for Capitalists) is a celebration of all things Warren Buffett, the 88 year old stock market genius, and his offsider, 95 …

First episode of the month means it is time for the Equity Mates book club. This month we are discussing Howard Mark’s classic investing book ‘The Most Important Thing’. Howard Marks is the co-founder of Oaktree Capital Management, a $120 billion fund based in America. Howard is known for his memo’s – a must read for any investor. In this …

Superannuation – something everyone has and very few people pay attention to. Most people are aware of the importance of making the right Super decisions, but a lot of the time it gets put into the ‘too hard’ basket. In this episode we hope to make things a little bit clearer. We’ve been receiving plenty of questions from listeners (and …

Earlier this year, we each picked one company to be our ‘stock of the year’. With the first quarter of the year past we thought it would be a good time to take stock and see how they’re going. In this episode you will learn about: The companies Bryce and Alec chose for Stock of the Year Why Alec’s pick …

James Packer’s company Crown Resorts (ASX: CWN) was in the headlines this week after it was revealed that US-based Wynn Resorts (NASDAQ: WYNN) was interested in a takeover. While Wynn are saying they are no longer interested in Crown, it got us here at Equity Mates interested in the Australian gambling industry. So here is our ‘shallow dive’ into the …

After a solid 3 weeks of podcasts for Australia’s Next Top Trader, we’ve now reached the point where we can switch our focus back to the core of Equity Mates – the Aussie market. This episode we go back to our roots, moving away from the US markets for the moment, to discuss what has happened on the markets in …

When we sat down to chat with Brandon, who hosts the YouTube channel Aussie Wealth Creation, one of the first things he said was, “you never know the emotion of trading until you actually do it”. We couldn’t agree more with this statement. It’s one of the most important messages we have for beginner investors. The biggest lessons you will …

It’s that time of year again when the report cards of companies are released to eagerly-waiting investors, for them to scrutinise. We’re talking about Reporting Season. Here in Australia, publicly listed companies are releasing their FY19 Half Year results. For those of you who are new to the markets, there is a requirement that all publicly listed companies report their …

Over the past 6 months as more and more Equity Mates have joined us on this journey, we’ve thought it may be time to do a reset episode. To explain how this podcast started and all that we’ve learnt over the past two years. Given we’re about to tick over to episode #100 – we thought this was the perfect …

On top of that, we’ve each got our final bold prediction for 2019. In this episode we each pick our Stock of the Year. For those who missed it in 2018, this is where both Bryce and Alec pick a stock to go head-to-head – winner is the stock that has the best percentage performance in 2019. Episodes don’t get …