Many structural winners today enjoy embedded real options in their business models that did not appear on their financial statements but significantly altered the direction of their futures. In this article, we look at some examples of real options in digital businesses.

Just like any hot stock that disconnects from fundamentals in an extreme way, it becomes a ticking time bomb before it crashes back down to reality. It’s unclear where the GameStop stock will trade over the coming days and months, but trees don’t grow to the sky.

GameStop was one of a number of stocks identified on Reddit as being highly-susceptible to a short-squeeze. In the month of January 2021, GameStop (NYSE: GME), increased by more than 1,600%, from $19 to $325 per share.

In this quarterly update, Chris Demasi, Montaka's Portfolio Manager reflects upon the new era ushered in by the coronavirus pandemic. This change has created enormous opportunity to invest meaningfully in advantaged digital winners with predictable and growing revenues and profits.

Inequality creates winners and losers. And there are key steps that investors can take to be on the right side of these changes – to not only protect their portfolios from growing inequality, but also generate strong investment returns into the future.

Our analysis leads us to believe that the forces driving low economic growth, increased indebtedness, low interest rates and asset inflation will only strengthen in a post COVID-19 world.

Contrary to popular mythology, technological disruption very rarely happens in a singular flash of brilliance. The image of a disheveled, genius tech founder, manically coding a brilliant new idea in a garage, has a disruptive vision, and lays waste to incumbent operators is a romantic notion. But unfortunately, it's rarely true.

Derivatives exchanges are becoming increasingly important in global markets today. In this article, we examine factors contributing to CME group's privileged position and whether it can be classified as a monopoly.

In this article for the AFR, Chris Demasi answers seven questions by Vesna Poljak on topics ranging from a stock he is excited about to where you can find a good VFM pasta in Sydney! Read on to know more.

Emerging digital economies such as Latin America and India have accelerated in their bid to catch up to major developed nations, taking advantage of pandemic-related digital transformations by investing strongly in e-commerce and mobile communications. The next decade will be an exciting and opportune phase for these rapidly growing regions.

"Discussing how the weak US middle-market business outlook is beneficial for the large alternative asset managers

Most readers will know that Alibaba operates the largest e-commerce platform in China, with its Taoabao and Tmall marketplaces. But did you know that Alibaba also operates Southeast Asia’s largest online retail marketplace?