Andrew takes a bearish stance towards property, Matt walks us through his decision to sell Class (ASX:CL1) and Claude pitches the bull case for Webjet (ASX:WEB)
Episode 10: Australian property, selling Class and buying Webjet
Beyond Fundamentals
Here’s a controversial take: to score the really big wins on the share market, you should disregard much of the so-called fundamentals. Not that key financial metrics are unimportant. Things such as sales, cash flows and the structure of the balance sheet provide invaluable insights into the nature of a business — and if they reveal an entity that is viable, growing […]
The 7 Powers: A Strategic Edge for Investors
There’s a lot of distance between broad, abstract investing concepts and placing actual trades with your hard earned. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer makes a good attempt at focusing the investor’s attention on the things that matter, and putting it in a way that feels a bit more actionable. It’s basically a book about ‘moats’, as Buffett would call them, […]
Pepper’s Law: The Market’s Endurance Test
Herbert Stein, an American economist, once observed that if something cannot go on forever, it will stop. That’s hardly a groundbreaking insight. But just because something is self-evident doesn’t mean it’s widely understood. Indeed, much of modern economics and finance is predicated on the belief that the future will largely mirror the past. To be fair, that’s not a terrible […]