Episode 16: More results — Wisetech, BWX, Kip McGrath & more, plus is Australia headed for recession?

The Australian stock market is less than 2% of the entire global equities market and doesn’t contain any of the world-renowned high flying stocks like Apple, Amazon or Facebook. So why then is there huge upside potential in investing down under? Three main reasons give us Australians a huge advantage when it comes to buying stocks in our own backyard.  […]

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 […]

Can the rally continue?

Many hard problems are best solved when they are addressed backwards. Munger called this inversion, and it’s a potent idea for both life and investing. It’s pretty obvious when you think about it: if you want to be happy avoid things that make you miserable. Similarly, if you want to improve your investment returns, don’t focus on finding the next […]

What is a share really worth?

We tend to lump stocks into two camps: small and risky, but with tantalising upside, or big and boring, plodding along with dependable (but modest) returns. But that’s a false binary; there is, of course, a vast and often fertile patch between these two extremes. Not that this is news to Strawman members. But Corey Leung from WCM Investment Management makes a compelling […]

We’ve seen a solid start to 2023, with the market as a whole already up by more than 6%. Some of the gains in the small-cap space have been far more impressive. Those that have enjoyed the biggest recoveries have tended to be ones that have reported: Strong balance sheets Positive (or at least improving) operating cash flows Sustained sales momentum […]