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📈 FIRE movement, Bitcoin ETFs & Stock deep dives | January at Equity Mates
Catch up on a big month here at Equity Mates
Equity Mates
February 01, 2024
Here’s what happened this month at Equity Mates
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This month, four Equity Mates Media podcasts released episodes.
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On Equity Mates Investing Podcast, we kicked off our Summer Series for 2024. Across 12 episodes, we’re unpacking 12 companies with 12 experts. We want to learn how they analyse a company and built an investment thesis.
Here are the episodes we released in January:
Up more than 200% in 2023, what does 2024 hold? - Nvidia | Summer Series
Creating a three-sided trucking marketplace - Landstar System | Summer Series
Does Google have any growth left? - Alphabet | Summer Series
Australia: the land of the packaging giant - Orora | Summer Series
The Aussie small cap taking on the tech giants - Dropsuite | Summer Series
Riding the boom in aesthetic medicine - InMode | Summer Series
Most downloaded for the month
Make sure you don’t miss our most popular episode for January. Alphabet (aka Google) is in most people’s portfolios (either directly or via index ETFs). And it has been an incredible performer, up 40% over the past 12 months.
However with new competitive threats from AI and an already dominant position in internet search, the question becomes: does Google have any growth left?
That is the question we set out to answer with Mary Manning, portfolio manager at Alphinity Investment Management.
On Get Started Investing, we’re taking a journey to financial freedom. Across 6 episodes we’re unpacking the topic of FIRE (aka Financial Independence, Retire Early) and walking through the steps to get there.
In January we kicked off the series and released:
Most downloaded for the month
Make sure you don’t miss our most popular episode from January. With cost of living and inflation front of mind for everyone at the moment, the Get Started Investing community loved our conversation on the ways we save and invest while managing our rising cost of living.
Maddy and Sophie from You’re in Good Company are back and are saying the quiet part out loud. Forget the idea that you don’t talk about money in polite company, they’re breaking the taboos and normalising talking about money.
In January they released four episodes:
Most downloaded for the month
Forget the taboo’s - the You’re in Good Company audience want to know how much money is in your bank account.
That is the big question that Maddy and Sophie unpack in the first episode of their taboo money series.
Crypto Curious returned at the end of January, ready for a big year with the upcoming Bitcoin halving. It was fitting that the year started with big news that had been years in the making - American regulators finally approved a Spot Bitcoin ETF.
Wondering what that is and why it matters? Tracey and Blake recorded an emergency podcast breaking it all down.
Crypto Curious released two episodes in January:
Most downloaded for the month
No prizes for guessing which podcast was the most downloaded this month!
The Spot Bitcoin ETF was the biggest news in the crypto space. Listen to Tracey and Blake unpack what this could mean for the crypto industry and whether Australian regulators will follow the lead of their US counterparts.
