Why third quarter results pushed Apple to US$1 trillion in value Apple sales were boosted by an average selling price per iPhone which went from below US$600 to US$724. Quarterly revenue was … Read More

By Alex Pollak and Anshu Sharma (originally published on Firstlinks) The law of large numbers v runaway returns to scale There is a well understood principle in investment known as the … Read More

Key takeaways from Loftus Peak’s feature in the Australian Financial Review: The death of Moore’s Law (the idea that with time more transistors can be packed onto the one chip to … Read More

By Alex Pollak, CIO Loftus Peak Key takeaways Almost all companies fall in a downturn But those with the best metrics, like lowest gearing, can rebound much faster (read below for … Read More

Broker calculators have been running red hot over the past week working through the implications of the large cash balances of some of the world’s largest companies, now that Apple (which … Read More

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By Alex Pollak, CIO Loftus Peak In the twelve months to Monday of this week, the S&P500 index is up 15.02%, while Alibaba is up 80%, Google is up 29.3%, Amazon … Read More

“The last 10 years have been about building a world that is mobile-first. In the next 10 years, we will shift to a world that is artificial intelligence (AI) first.” Sundar … Read More

Just a few days ago, Alibaba Group, the Chinese on-line retailer, came within 1% of being the world’s most valuable retailer – with a market capitalisation of U$473b, its value was … Read More

The Name of the Rose is Umberto Eco’s masterpiece whodunit set in a 14th century monastery (bags of sex and grisly violence with some serious semiotics thrown in). The last line … Read More