Why Chris Demasi is calm about his stock bets being dumped
In an interview with the AFR, Demasi explains why short-term volatility doesn’t derail his investment strategy, emphasizing business fundamentals over stock price fluctuations. Discover why Montaka doubled down on KKR during its sell-off and how patience defines their high-conviction approach.
Ignore political noise, America is still best bet for investors
In their own way, Macken and Demasi are repeating their version of Buffett’s argument that the structural forces for growth and innovation behind the success of the US are too ingrained in the system to be stuffed up by whichever group of politicians happens to be in Washington.
Why investment legend Chris Mackay says ‘it’s a dangerous time’
(As mentioned in the AFR Chanticleer) The MFF Capital Investments boss and Magellan co-founder says the “everything rally” is likely to reverse, but calm, long-term investors can fight through the noise.
Chris Mackay buys Montaka, outlines Magellan-like vision
(As mentioned in the AFR) Magellan Financial Group co-founder Chris Mackay is reshaping his own Magellan offshoot by snapping up global equities manager Montaka into his $2 billion investment vehicle.
The biggest surprise in US earnings
Insights from the recent US earnings season, discussing 9 companies that delivered solid results but faced muted stock price reactions. Discover Montaka’s latest addition and investment thesis.
Why short-termism is both a travesty and an opportunity
Graham Hand, editor at Firstlinks interviews Chris and discuss investor’s short-term outlook. On any given day, whether the stockmarket rises or falls is a coin toss, but stay invested for 10 years and the odds are excellent. It’s at times of market selloffs that opportunities present for long-term investors.
Whitepaper: Why epoch-defining AI is today’s most important investment theme (and the safest way to profit)
(As mentioned in the AFR) Montaka believes AI will drive much, much more demand for compute and storage – both in the cloud and at the edge – than many are expecting today. Furthermore, the long-term winners are already known today with a high degree of certainty and we believe the current stock prices of these businesses are failing to adequately reflect what Montaka’s sees on the horizon.
Montaka named in AFR Chanticleer column’s ‘Five best trades of 2021’
For investors, private markets ‘were the place to be in 2021’ and the best way to play the sector was owning the world’s three most prominent asset managers, Blackstone, KKR and Carlyle. It noted that Montaka owned all three companies in its portfolio and quoted our portfolio manager Chris Demasi.
Why have investors become theme junkies?
In today’s high-gratification world, it is natural for investors to chase these intellectual hits and gravitate towards sources of new themes. The only problem is, it remains far from clear if these new themes are even themes at all.
Global tech-bubble or opportunity
Andy recently sat down with NAB’s Gemma Dale to discuss the valuations of global technology stocks and whether or not investors should be concerned about the tech-bubble. Listen to the podcast here.