What might surprise in 2024? 5 questions with our CIO
Giles Goodwill interviews Andy Macken about his outlook for 2024. Join them as they discuss China, AI winners and the recent growth trajectory that global equities have witnessed.
Downfall? 6 vital questions on Meta’s future
Montaka CIO, Andrew Macken shares why he believes there is a strong likelihood that Meta will significantly outperform the very low expectations that are currently embedded in Meta’s stock price.
The case for investment optimism: 4 tech advancements that will underpin long-term returns (and the 3 stocks you need to profit from them)
With so much bad news abound, it can be difficult to see any light amidst the economic darkness. But in engineering labs all around the world, extraordinary advancements in technology are being made. In the not-too-distant future, the economic cycle will turn, and the market’s myopia will fade. And when it does, the new market opportunities unlocked by today’s technological advancements will come into focus.
The Montaka funnel: a process for finding long-term winners
Taking a closer look at the Montaka funnel which not only describes our investment process, but also helps explain the relative stability of our portfolio (which might seem unusual, particularly during the recent bear market).
4 reasons why Spotify shares are set for a star revival
Bargain hunters alert! Spotify shares have fallen 75% from their peak in 2021. Should you panic? We don’t think so. Here are 4 key reasons why Spotify can materially increase its earning power in future years and why the stock is way undervalued in our opinion.
The market is dividing in to ‘advantaged’ and ‘disadvantaged’ businesses
The economic times of the day are challenging to decode. But a valuable step in making investing just a little less difficult is to focus on businesses with strong advantages- ones that provide mission-critical value with limited competition. What exactly separates advantaged from disadvantaged businesses?
Investors can find great bargains in this myopic market if they focus on Ben Graham’s dictum that the market is a long-term “weighing machine”
Benjamin Graham, the father of ‘value investing’, once famously said that in the short run the market is a “voting machine”, but in the long run it is a “weighing machine”. Sentiment determines short-term prices, however fundamentals and performance dictate price in the long run.
Don’t forget the keys to unlocking big wealth are compounding and time
In the current environment of heightened volatility, it’s vital that investors keep in mind the power of compounding. We use Buffett’s example in this article to highlight that the key to becoming very wealthy is strong compounding, repeated over time.
‘Multidiscipline’: The secret of Bezos and Buffett’s wild success
In a complex, ever-changing world, where domain-specific information is becoming commoditised and readily available, ‘multidisciplinary’ investing has become one of the true sources of an investment edge. Interestingly, despite the undoubted power of multidisciplinary investing, the investment industry is still largely built on the principle of specialization.
How Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ shareholder letters made me a better investor – 7 lessons learnt
Investment legend James Anderson said something interesting: that an investor today needed to read not just Buffett’s words, but also the shareholder letters of Amazon founder, Jeff Bezos. I took note of Anderson’s tip and immersed myself in Bezos’s shareholder letters, getting inside the great man’s thinking, and here’s what I learnt.