Monthly Archive: September, 2020

September 28, 2020

Mocker Monday. 28 September.

Economy Oliver’s Insights – Australia’s “eye popping” budget deficit and public debt blow out – can it be paid off? Does it matter? (Shane Oliver – AMP Capital) US-China relations and wars (Ray Dalio – Principles.com)

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September 21, 2020

Mocker Monday. 21 September.

Markets Why eSports are sexy, but expensive (Damien Klassen – Nucleus Wealth) Why this manager is avoiding today’s hot stocks (Livewire Markets – Youtube) Economy The big cycles of China and its Currency (Ray Dalio – Principles.com) Investment and portfolios Tips for using ETFs in an investment portfolio (Livewire Markets – Youtube)

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September 14, 2020

Mocker Monday. 14 September.

Economy How COVID-19 has changed the way we spend (Roger Montgomery) Markets Are we entering the next commodities supercycle? (Livewire Markets) Competitive advantages of Australia’s tech titans (Livewire Markets)

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September 8, 2020

Compumedics – CMP:ASX

These guys make medical tech for sleep diagnostics. Here’s a summary from our previous look at them (June 19):  Organic growth driven by reasonable returns.  They’ve been around for quite some time, and always seem to be on the cusp of greatness, but never seem to make it.  It looks like they’re trying to pivot from a premium pricing model...

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September 7, 2020

Mocker Monday. 7 September.

Economy What will the world look like in 2025 (Andrew Clifford – Platinum Asset Management) Markets The Crash Of 2020: Into The End Game (Forbes) Market outlook Q&A – disconnect to real economy, growth v value, vaccines, property, gold, inflation, and other issues (Shane Oliver – AMP Capital) First Robinhood, Now Masa the Nasdaq Whale (Bloomberg) Investor behaviour How COVID-19...

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September 4, 2020

Stock Quickie – ICS:ASX

How did we get here? Showed up on SWSt filter.  What do they do? They provide medical billing and collection services for the medical industry. Despite being an Australian company, they primarily operate in the UK under the MDC brand.  Weighing machine RoE of between 8-20% that seem to be quite vulnerable to being hit by changes in costs/environment/regulation, etc...

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September 2, 2020

CSL Limited – CSL:ASX – EOFY20 Update

Diversified biotech company, one of the major successes and perennial market darlings of the ASX. MBI analysed them over a year ago (May 19). Here’s a brief summary of our previous thoughts: They have three segments;  Behring – Diversified Biotech,  Plasma – Largest collector of human blood in the world,  Seqirus – Second largest provider of influenza vaccines in the...

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September 1, 2020

Quiet Contrarian. Ep 8: Trades for August 20

The main theme for the month is a few sales ahead of announcements to take profits on things I felt were overbaked. DTL and APX have been stellar performers of late, and were both looking a bit overpriced, so I sold down portions of my holdings.  The American economy is looking even more overbaked with TMCGDP going over 180%. My...

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