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The first quarter of 2024-25 saw the largest supermarket player grow its sales. This positive result was more than offset by a combination of regulatory and political factors, higher operating costs and growing competition from Amazon.

In addition to falling for the ‘big market delusion’ that competitors won’t emerge and current performance expectations are rational, investors are also overplaying Nvidia as a ‘safe’ hand in the AI game, according to a new research paper.

ASX sinks, RBA’s taper tantrum, Lew hits Myer again The ASX 200 (ASX: XJO) closed around its lows on a busy Tuesday with the long-awaited monetary policy decision released at 2pm sending the market into negative territory. Every sector barring energy, which is benefitting from an OPEC impasse, finished lower with bond proxies including communications and healthcare…

It was roughly 10-years ago now, that Nick Griffin, Chief Investment Officer at Munro Partners, marched into our Melbourne office and gave a presentation on how a Bookstore would one day turn into a Superstore. We thought he was crazy. Remember when Amazon sold only books? It’s hard to imagine that it was that same…

The value vs. growth debate has been played out in numerous ways for close to a decade. The results today are clear. Those who remained steadfastly invested in value stocks have significantly underperformed the benchmark and may well have left investors with less capital than the same time ten years ago. Traditional value stocks remain…

Bank rally not enough, Westpac hike dividend, job ads continue to surprise The ASX200 (ASX:XJO) rose just three points to begin the week, with a powerful day from the financials sector (+1.4%) which represents some 30% of the index not enough to overcome broader weakness. Energy and materials continue to detract amid signs that inflation is being…

We recently hosted our latest Market Thinker’s podcast on the topic of ‘cloud computing’, which despite seeing double-digit growth for close to a decade, is still considered an emerging ‘theme’. The pandemic has forced businesses large and small to accelerate their adoption of cloud computing and other disruptive technologies, and the resulting growth rates have…

ASX struggles to another record, Sims upgrades guidance, lithium giants to merge The ASX200 (ASX:XJO) struggled to another record close, finishing just three points higher as a sell off in the energy sector, down -1.4%, offset gains in the mining sector, +0.8%. The news of the day was the planned merger between Australia’s pureplay lithium miners, Orocobre (ASX:ORE) and Galaxy (ASX:GXY),…

With the onset of COVID-19 and the lockdowns that followed, the move to digital accelerated, becoming a shift of necessity rather than choice. The move occurred almost seamlessly. Bricks-and-mortar retailers shifted online, triggering a move to digital with buy-now, pay-later (BNPL) vendors popping up offering solutions to replace physical cash. This is just one example…

In hindsight, March 2nd, 2020, as the world started to get to grips with the scale of the global health emergency that was unfolding in the form of the Covid-19 pandemic, was an inauspicious time to launch a new investment product. In fact, the S&P/ASX 200 Index is down 19% since that day – after…