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September

Northcape Capital’s Fleur Wright is speaking at the Sohn Hearts & Mind Conference in Adelaide this year.

Missed out on Nvidia and Ozempic? This fundie says it’s never too late

Northcape Capital’s Fleur Wright may have missed out in the early AI and GLP-1 investor frenzy, but she made other good calls that were perfectly timed.

  • Sarah Jones
Andrew Mitchell predicts that Life360  is on its way to be a 10-bagger.

Ophir’s prediction for the ASX’s next 10-bagger

Shares in a2 Milk, Afterpay and Northern Star earned the coveted status for Ophir and its co-founder Andrew Mitchell. He predicts Life360 will be next.

  • Cecile Lefort
Ashley Lester, Global Head of Research at MSCI, says there are still lessons to be learnt from the dot-com crash.

Investors have forgotten the lessons of the dotcom crash

MSCI’s head of research Ashley Lester has some thoughts on what many analysts have warned is the next bubble: the rapid rise in US tech valuations.

  • Joshua Peach
Nick Moakes is the chief investment officer at the Wellcome Trust, one of the biggest philanthropic endowments in the world.

The Wellcome Trust’s Nick Moakes made a 100-year bet. It’s paying off

The chief investment officer of the huge charitable fund raised almost $3 billion at ultra-low rates. Sometimes the long view can be the most profitable.

  • Jonathan Shapiro
Going it alone: Profeta’s Garry Laurence, Glenmore’s Robert Gregory, and Ziller’s Joseph Ziller

When bigger is not better: meet the fundies going it alone

As the investment giants grapple with rising costs and dwindling assets, there’s a band of ultra boutique firms that have sprung up and are making waves.

  • Joanne Tran
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August

Paradice’s Sam Theodore oversees the firm’s latest small caps strategy.

Paradice’s Sam Theodore sees riches in these uranium stocks

The former Blackrock hedge fund manager’s recent trip to Paladin’s flagship Namibia mine has made him more bullish on the controversial energy source.

  • Joanne Tran
“We’re an armchair expert,” says Pohl. “We pick businesses with quality management that can navigate their ship through any storm patterns they’re facing.”

The stocks that helped catapult ECP to the top of the pile

Fund management veteran Manny Pohl isn’t afraid to tackle short sellers head-on, and his fortitude is paying dividends for the firm that he helped found.

  • Alex Gluyas
George Boubouras is urging states to restrain debt funding plans.

Why this fundie is betting big on Macquarie Group

K2’s George Boubouras is not worried about the recent market turmoil or the US economy, instead he’s betting on mid-caps and Australia’s biggest investment bank.

  • Cecile Lefort
Dougal Maple-Brown, portfolio manager at Maple-Brown Abbott in Sydney.

Lessons from 40 years of investing, from one value investor to another

Dougal Maple-Brown discusses his family’s decision to sell the famed Sydney boutique founded by his father, the late Robert Maple-Brown.

  • Joshua Peach

July

Perennial Capital’s head of Small Caps Andrew Smith with co-portfolio manager Julian Guido.

Perennial prepares to unleash war chest on small caps

After a bruising few years for the money manager’s smaller companies fund, Andrew Smith is readying his team for the next big buy: the August reporting season.

  • Sarah Jones
Harvest Lane’s Luke Cummings.

M&A arb fund Harvest Lane keeps a ‘blacklist’ of boards to avoid

Investor Luke Cummings has made a name for himself (and money) by trading M&A activity. But one deal that he’s steering clear of is the $8.8 billion Chemist Warehouse and Sigma merger.

  • Joanne Tran
James McDonald is a co-portfolio manager at Pengana.

Three little-known stocks driving this veteran’s mega returns

Pengana’s James McDonald discusses his blockbuster year and the ASX-listed stocks he is backing into the new financial year.

  • Joshua Peach
Robert Gregory of Glenmore Asset Management.

Meet the fund manager doing it better than everyone else

In a market completely saturated with Aussie equity funds, Robert Gregory, a one-man band, has come out on top thanks to some cracking stock bets.

  • Sarah Jones
Brian Kersmanc pictured at GQG’s headquarters in Fort Lauderdale, Florida last week.

GQG slashes tech exposure, here’s where it’s buying next

Brian Kersmanc was the first analyst that star stockpicker Rajiv Jain hired for his new firm. He’s now co-managing all of GQG’s strategies which are pumping out near-40 per cent returns.

  • Alex Gluyas

June

Geometrica’s James Bradley was only 23 years old when he co-founded the hedge fund.

Why hedge fund Geometrica only wants to make ‘easy money’

Fund managers James Bradley and Gary Hui go to painstaking lengths before they buy a stock like Nvidia or bet against one like The a2 Milk Company.

  • Joanne Tran
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Kilter Rural’s Euan Friday says water prices are going to rocket this year.

Riding the wave: this Regal-backed fund is betting big on water

Kilter Rural’s Euan Friday predicts water prices will rocket 300 per cent this year, after huge government intervention and the weather dries up.

  • Cecile Lefort
Hawkins has recently added a new stock to L1’s Catalyst Fund.

L1’s activist fund is making investors and boards take notice

The hedge fund’s catalyst strategy has returned 42 per cent since its 2021 inception, and portfolio manager James Hawkins is eyeing up L1’s next target.

  • Alex Gluyas

May

Pimco’s Dan Ivascyn says Australian debt pays attractive returns.

Bond returns are back and Pimco is ‘excited’

The $2.9 trillion fund manager is buying up Australian government bonds, among other things, betting that the Reserve Bank will need to cut rates less than the Fed. They are also wagering on the US housing market and consumer.

  • Cecile Lefort
Bronte Capital co-founder and chief investment officer John Hempton in his Bondi Junction office. About half the books on his bookshelf recount frauds.

John Hempton laments return of meme machine Roaring Kitty

Before being hit by last week’s meme-stock rally triggered by an online stock promoter, Sydney hedge fund manager John Hempton was having a great year.

  • Aaron Patrick
Emma Fisher is not afraid to ‘lean into’ the markets fear.

Airlie’s Emma Fisher is making her next big bets

Mineral Resources and Reece have been career-defining picks. This year, she’s sold down CBA and is going large on one of the most shorted stocks on the ASX.

  • Sarah Jones

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