CIO Alex Pollak speaks to Livewire’s Ally Selby about Loftus Peak’s approach to investing in Artificial Intelligence and which stocks he believes will provide exposure to this disruptive technology. Plus, he … Read More
July 2023 Update+
Welcome to Update+, a short tour around the grounds of investment in the big disruptive trends that are driving business. For July, we discuss earnings numbers as cyclical headwinds become tailwinds … Read More
AI returns continue to roll
Source: Adobe In the past month, Investor intuition has become highly attuned to the criticality of semiconductors. These devices underpin artificial intelligence (AI) across thousands of applications from music to missile defence. … Read More
Dynamite Fishing: £1.5 T UK pension plans survive, luckily
Dynamite fishing is a term used in angling to describe damaging behaviour that accidentally kills whatever else happens to be in the water nearby the fish that are the target. It … Read More
Disruption continues despite ‘technical recession’
The recession we don’t seem to be having Source: FrankHH, Shutterstock Markets had braced for impact following the US Federal Reserve rate hikes (+2.25% so far this year) with expectations of … Read More
What happens to disruption during a recession?
Hard and soft landings (recession versus not) are now the talk of the day, with a growing list of companies reporting hiring freezes and other cost controls along with lower forward … Read More
Strong earnings, weak markets
Inflation is here and so interest and other costs will rise, which means that margins will be squeezed. Less of each dollar of revenue will go to shareholders, making returns harder … Read More
Companies spearheading disruption hit value territory
Estimated dollar content of silicon in the car as at 2030. Note: BOM = bill of materials – i.e. cost of goods sold Source: McKinsey, Intel Semiconductors sell off The semiconductor pull-back … Read More
Inflation is here. Set quality to max.
It was a bad month for markets all around, as the US Federal Reserve finally leaned into its job – getting inflation out of the system. Its mechanism for doing this … Read More
The disruption strategy that outgrew Tesla
Below is Vesna Poljak’s Australian Financial Review Monday Fundie article ‘The disruption strategy that outgrew Tesla′ which was originally published in the Australian Financial Review on 14 Feb 2022. For the … Read More
Disruption: Would you like chips with that?
Reading time: 4 minutes It was all about “chips” – semiconductors – in 2021and likely also in 2022. We (internally) break down our portfolio into three categories – those that produce the tools … Read More
Loftus Peak features in AFR – 14 disruptive trends you need to know about in 2022
Below is an extract from Tony Featherstone’s Australian Financial Review article ‘14 disruptive trends you need to know about in 2022′ which was originally published in the Australian Financial Review on … Read More