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Contrarian Investing in the Age of Real-World AI

we are in the midst of profound disruption. This is likely to be beyond a typical generational disruption that happens every 20-30 years. This technological singularity is expected to cause dramatic and irreversible changes to human civilization, far beyond typical generational disruptions such as electrification, the internet, or even current generative AI.

TechnologyManaged FundShares
13 Feb 2026
 · Chris Watson & Simon Raubenheimer
 · 13 MIN READ

Contrarian Investing in the Age of Real-World AI

we are in the midst of profound disruption. This is likely to be beyond a typical generational disruption that happens every 20-30 years. This technological singularity is expected to cause dramatic and irreversible changes to human civilization, far beyond typical generational disruptions such as electrification, the internet, or even current generative AI.

TechnologyManaged FundShares
13 Feb 2026
 · Chris Watson & Simon Raubenheimer
 · 13 MIN READ

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Power Players in Generative AI

The widespread adoption of the conversational chatbot ChatGPT has triggered a gold rush among tech giants. Alphabet, Microsoft, Baidu, and Meta have all swarmed in to capitalise on generative AI technologies capable of creating texts, images, videos, audios, and even software codes. But investing in generative AI is not as simple as picking the right tech trend, like the cloud, electric vehicles, or blockchain. There is a long value chain to consider.

TechnologySoftwareShares
23 June 2023
 · Ankita Rai
 · 5 MIN READ

Unloved. Unwanted. Worthless.

To most people (particularly non-smokers), the idea of picking up a cigar butt from the gutter would rank fairly high on the ‘disgusting’ scale. Lighting it up and taking a few puffs - even more so. After all, there’s a reason people throw things away. Usually, it’s because they’re unloved, unwanted, or worthless. Often all three apply.

Investor EducationShares
13 June 2023
 · Tom Elisson
 · 5 MIN READ

Woolworths, Coles ride the MilkRun wave

What do companies like AirBnB, Uber, Atlassian and MilkRun have in common? They all started with ideas that seemed unlikely to work at first. Consider MilkRun. The on-demand grocery startup was a true disruptor when it burst onto the scene in 2021. Its promise of delivering groceries within ten minutes for just $2.99 challenged the duopoly of Coles and Woolworths, which held a combined market share of about 70 per cent.

Retail, Consumer Products & FoodShares
9 June 2023
 · Ankita Rai
 · 4 MIN READ

Are Blue Chips Still Blue?

32 years ago, everybody who held a Commonwealth Bank account received a hefty document in the mail. It was an invitation to become a shareholder in the bank, which until then had been government-owned. The minimum investment was 400 shares at a price of $5.40 – a total of $2,160. The canny people who wrote out a cheque for $2,160 and put their share certificate in the bottom drawer are today sitting on a holding worth around $52,500. That’s a 1,700 per cent return.

Investor EducationShares
25 May 2023
 · Tom Elisson
 · 7 MIN READ

Apple’s fintech play gets bigger

Apple's high-yield savings account racked up almost $1 billion in deposits within four days of its launch in April. The 4.15 per cent annual yield with no minimum balance requirement is undoubtedly a draw for its more than 2 billion users, but what is truly noteworthy is the overwhelming response at a time of growing distrust in the banking sector.

FintechSharesInvestment Themes
18 May 2023
 · Ankita Rai
 · 4 MIN READ

Is investing in shares really gambling?

Nearly twenty years ago, 34-year-old Londoner Ashley Revell made a bet few of us would ever even consider. He sold everything he owned – his house, his car, even his clothes – and took a flight to the United States where he checked into a Las Vegas casino. The he headed for the Roulette wheel, where he gambled every cent he’d scraped together (a total of US$135,300 to be exact) on a single bet. Revell put his chips on red, his reasoning being he had a 50:50 chance of winning. To some people, that sort of punt is no different to investing in shares. But as we’ll see, it’s a totally different scenario.

SharesInvestor Education
26 Apr 2023
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 · 10 MIN READ

The Best Investment - Ever

Have you ever wondered what the best share market investment of all time is? It’s not Apple, the world’s first trillion-dollar business. It’s not Meta Platforms Inc (the company formerly known as Facebook) either, although plenty of people who ‘liked’ Facebook enough in the early days to invest in it have become millionaires. You may never have heard the name of the best investment of all time, although you certainly know about its products. You may even be a customer.

SharesInvestor Education
14 Dec 2022
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 · 4 MIN READ

Investing Ethically

Ethical investment funds aren’t new. Some people have always shunned investments associated with harmful activities such as uranium mining, deforestation and arms manufacture. Instead, they’ve looked for opportunities in renewable energy, education and healthcare.

ESGSharesInvestor Education
9 Dec 2022
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 · 3 MIN READ

BNPL shares - will buying now pay later?

Just five years ago, most people had never heard of a little company called Afterpay. And the words “buy now, pay later” (now known simply as BNPL) weren’t in common use. That’s all changed. In fact, the way people pay for retail goods in Australia was revolutionised by Afterpay. The question is, is BNPL the way of the future, or just a passing fad?

SharesFintech
26 Sept 2022
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 · 4 MIN READ

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