Equity Mates Investing Podcast

It's an Industry Deep Dive episode! And it begins with a bit of a debate between Bryce and Ren about the very definition of today's chat - Infrastructure - and just what qualifies?To settle it, we looked to Macquarie, who say: “Infrastructure provides essential products or services which are necessary to support economic and social activity… Infrastructure typically has a strong strategic position (such as monopoly or duopoly). This is because significant capital is usually required to construct the assets, resulting in high barriers to entry for would-be competitors.“It's always time for a great Buffett quote too - who said his favourite investment was the ‘only toll road into town’.As promised, here's the links and lists that Bryce mentioned:Listed FundsETFS Global Core Infrastructure (CORE)VanEck Vectors FTSE Global Infrastructure (Hedged) (IFRA)Magellan Infrastructure Fund (Hedged) (MICH)Vanguard Global Infrastructure Index (VBLD)Individual companies (ASX ticker) - ASX SectorTransurban (TCL) - Highways & Railtracks Sydney Airport (SYD) - Airport ServicesAPA Group (APA) - Gas UtilitiesAusNet Services (AST) - Electric UtilitiesInfigen Energy (IFN) - Independent Power Producers & Energy TraderAtlas Arteria (ALX) - Highways & RailtracksSpark Infrastructure Group (SKI) - Electric UtilitiesSome of our favourite resources and offers to help you during your journey:$50-$200 OFF some amazing investing courses by our friend-of-the-show, OwenTrack your investment portfolio with Sharesight.Get a free stock when you sign-up to Stake, using the code EQUITYMATESGet exclusive access to our favourite data and insights platform, TIKRGet free trades if you plan to use the broker SelfWealthMake sure you participate in our Equity Mates Listener survey - you could win $500.Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In today's episode, Alec and Bryce talk to Brian Ward. Brian is the founder and chief executive officer of Aroa, a company of much discussion in the Equity Mates' Facebook group, and a company that featured in our summer series. Brian has been responsible for leading the Company’s growth from start-up through to becoming a vertically integrated medical device business with substantial US sales and a developing international presence.In today's episode, we discuss the climate that the company is operating in - the historic process for soft tissue regeneration, and some of the different technologies being trialled at the moment. Then Brian talks about the journey of founding Aroa, including the experience and background he brought to the table, and his entrepreneurial learnings. They speak to the pipeline for Aroa for the next few years, the risks and challenges in the current environment, and what success would look like for the company.*****Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This is a busy episode! There's a new 'What The?', with the arrival of the SUBZ ETF (The Roundhill Streaming Services & Technology ETF) which is designed to offer investors exposure to the streaming industry. Then our Equity Mates community member Kevin Skafte gets on the line and pitches us A2 Milk, a company that Alec has long been a fan of.Then the guys call the Specky Hotline for a hot take from Specky Macgee. Not sure if this is one we'll be adding to the portfolio, but it did make us laugh.Here's some of our favourite offers and resources to help you on your investing journey: $50-$200 OFF some amazing investing courses by our friend-of-the-show, OwenTrack your investment portfolio with Sharesight.Get a free stock when you sign-up to Stake, using the code EQUITYMATESGet exclusive access to our favourite data and insights platform, TIKRGet free trades if you plan to use the broker SelfWealth*****Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here at Equity Mates, we love finding up and coming Australian fund managers that have interesting perspectives and different approaches to markets. In this episode we speak to Michael Frazis, portfolio manager of Frazis Capital Partners, who certainly fits that description.Michael has just come off an incredible year in 2020, beating his benchmark index by more than 100%! In this interview we unpack his unique investment philosophy, some of the companies that have driven his returns and his view on two sectors of particular interest to him - technology and life sciences. In this episode you will learn:How Michael when from studying chemistry at Oxford to managing his own fundWhy Michael looks for companies with “customer love” and “incredible growth”His take on traditional valuation metrics and why he’s happy to invest in companies losing moneyHis investment thesis for some of the hottest stocks in markets today, including Tesla and AfterpaySome of the companies Michael finds interesting in the life sciences spaceWhy Frazis Capital takes a ‘customer first’ rather than ‘management first’ approach to research*****Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's *the* story of the moment: what's going on with Facebook, and their battle with news? Alec and Bryce recap what has happened to date with the Facebook saga, and investigate the business side of the dispute, as well as the precedent it sets for the rest of the world. We then chat to Nick Griffin, who's Chief Investment Officer at Munro Partners about their decision to recently divest from Facebook.*****Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Alec and Bryce are joined by Hamish Douglass - the Chairman, CIO and Lead Portfolio Manager at Magellan Financial Group, a fund manager he co-founded with Chris Mackay in 2006. Hamish is (in our opinion) the best investor in Australia today and amongst everything else is a fellow podcaster, hosting Magellan’s In The Know podcast.*****Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, Alec brings a 'What The ?' to the table for Bryce to puzzle over, and we break down 13Fs... What are they? Forms that the SEC requires to be filed quarterly by institutional investment managers with at least $100 million in assets under management. Bryce and Alec look under the hood (or flip through the pages) of some of their favourite investors, to see if they can get some insights into what the smart money is doing.*****Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Charlie is a Partner at Pitcher Partners, providing financial advisory and wealth services to high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals. Specialising in ongoing investment management and administrative services, Charlie’s is personally responsible for over $1.5 billion of funds. His expertise and client outcomes was recognised by Barrons when he received the accolade of the No. 1 Adviser in Australia in the 2018 Adviser Rankings, followed by 4th in 2019 and 15th in 2020. He has also been recognised as one of Australia’s 50 most influential advisors in 2018, 2019 and 2020 by Financial Standard’s Power50.*****Make sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Over the past four years of this podcast, we’ve done plenty of episodes on buying stocks. When to buy, what to buy, how to buy. In this episode we discuss the other side of investing - selling. Knowing when to sell can be difficult. Are you going to miss out further gains? Is the stock going to bounce back? Unfortunately, there’s no good answer - every stock is different - but there are a few rules of thumb that can help you make that decision. In this episode we discuss:Selling based on your investing styleThe 4 major reasons you would sell a stockHow Alec & Bryce think about selling their investmentsSelling an ETF or Managed FundWe then speak to 3 experts and ask how they approach selling their investmentsMake sure you don't miss anything Equity Mates related by signing up to our email list. And visit this page if you love everything Equity Mates and want to support our work.*****Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.*****Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Come to our website and subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more at or check out our Youtube channel. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On Valentine's Day, we'll be launching our latest podcast, Meet Pay Love. In this special bonus episode, we meet our newest hosts, Carmel and Zoe, and chat to them about the idea and concepts behind the podcast. Focused on the complexities of romance and money, their aim is to create an engaging and safe space to break down gender roles and stereotypes around money, whilst educating and normalising the conversation! Because, the biggest financial decision you’ll make is who you spend the rest of your life with.Read more about the origins of Meet Pay Love.Are you an expert? Do you have a question, or want Carmel and Zoe to focus on a particular topic? Ask them on the contact form.***Any views expressed by the podcast host or any guest are their own and do not represent the views of Equity Mates Media or any other employer or associated organisation.Always remember, all information contained in this podcast is for education and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional financial, legal or tax advice. The hosts of Equity Mates are not financial professionals and are not aware of your personal financial circumstances. Before making any financial decisions you should read the Produce Disclosure Statement (PDS) and, if necessary, consult a licensed financial professional.For more information head to our Disclaimer Page, where you can find resources to search for a registered financial professional near you.***Have you just started your investing journey? Head over to Get Started Investing – Equity Mates 12-part series with all the fundamentals you need to feel confident to start your investing journey.Want more Equity Mates? Subscribe to Equity Mates Investing Podcast, social media channels, Thought Starters mailing list and more here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.