Episode 11: Audinate, Volpara, Dicker Data, locality Planning and listener mailbag

Can the rally continue?

There’s no such thing as a free lunch…

This week was the 10th anniversary of the collapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the event that’s seen as precipitating the Global Financial Crisis. The milestone has many in the media questioning the current bull market, one that is starting to get rather long in the tooth and is showing more than a few red flags. In fact, parallels […]

They say stocks take the stairs up, but the elevator down. That is, gains are steady and incremental, but losses tend to be sudden and sharp. That’s generally been true for billing software developer Hansen Technologies (ASX:HSN), though earlier this month the share price seemed to catch a rocket: Igniting the boosters was news that Hansen had acquired Canadian catalog […]

Medical imaging software provider Volpara (ASX:VHT) has delivered another set of strong results today, reporting financial results for the six months ending 30 September, 2019. Total revenue surged 197% to NZ$6.8 million, with subscription revenue up 148% to NZ$5.2 million. At the end of the period, Volpara’s level of annual recurring revenue was NZ$15.7 million, up from just NZ$4.8 million […]

Investing won’t make you rich. Not on its own. Done right, it will certainly help grow your money — and, over time, that growth can be considerable. But if you really want to build enduring wealth you should also focus on saving. That’s the fuel on which the fire of compounding burns. If you can scrape together $2,000 and invest that for a […]

Charlie Munger has loads of great quotes, but this one is a standout: The first rule of compounding: never interrupt it unnecessarily Charlie Munger The maths behind compounding is easy enough, but the intuition is anything but. If you can find an investment that compounds at 20% per annum, the gain you make in year 10 is greater than the total […]

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