QAV 725 — Mr Lazy & Mr Dumb

In this episode of QAV, Cameron and Tony dive into recent mar­ket activ­i­ties, the RBA’s deci­sions, the Lindy Effect, sub­stan­tial share­hold­er announce­ments, and GrainCorp’s prospects, along with a detailed analy­sis of Embark Ear­ly Edu­ca­tion (EVO). Mem­ber ques­tions about liv­ing off a share port­fo­lio dur­ing down years and the dif­fer­ences between val­ue and qual­i­ty invest­ing are addressed. Addi­tion­al­ly, Tony clar­i­fies the cal­cu­la­tion of shares on issue for Rio Tin­to, empha­siz­ing glob­al fig­ures for earn­ings per share. In after hours, the duo also cov­ers Mario Puzo’s ‘The God­fa­ther’, Alphonse Mucha, and the Archibald Prize, and dis­cuss the poten­tial and risks of AI, draw­ing ref­er­ences from sci­ence fic­tion. They wrap up with thoughts on films and books, includ­ing ‘Klara and the Sun’.

QAV 724 — Our First U.S. Episode

In this episode of QAV, Cam and Tony explore the U.S. mar­ket for the first time, with a brief intro­duc­tion of Tony and his QAV sys­tem of val­ue invest­ing, a dis­cus­sion of val­ue v growth invest­ing, a dis­cus­sion of the per­for­mance of our U.S. dum­my port­fo­lio, a deep dive or ‘Pulled Pork’ seg­ment on Rein­sur­ance Group of Amer­i­ca (RGA), and a review of the FY sur­vey results we’ve received so far from club mem­bers.

QAV 723 — The Vulcan Fudge

Join Tony and Cameron in episode 723 of QAV as they dis­cuss a vari­ety of top­ics rang­ing from Amer­i­can bar­be­cue joints to the Hunter Biden law­suit. Tony talks about his relax­ing golf trip down the East Coast and the chal­lenges of sell­ing a house. Then we dis­cuss Vul­can lev­el emo­tion­al detach­ment in invest­ing, recent mar­ket move­ments, and spe­cif­ic stocks like CUE, MME, and PRN. There’s also an explo­ration of div­i­dends and port­fo­lio per­for­mance. In after hours, we’re talk­ing about ‘The Blues Broth­ers’ Sid­ney George Reil­ly (Ace Of Spies), Nicholas Cage in “Dream Sce­nario” and our plans for our first U.S. episode.

QAV 722 — WELTANSCHAUUNG

In this episode, Tony pro­vides insights into recent retail sales fig­ures, the mar­ket’s reac­tion, and the con­cept of ‘con­fes­sion sea­son’ in the cor­po­rate world. Then he con­ducts a detailed ‘Pulled Pork’ seg­ment on Stealth Group (SGI), a tool retail­er, eval­u­at­ing its finan­cial health, mar­ket per­for­mance, and prospects.

In the club edi­tion, we also dis­cuss the rea­sons behind vary­ing mem­ber per­for­mances (and our own per­for­mance), and dis­cuss the impor­tance of stick­ing to a dis­ci­plined invest­ment mod­el.

QAV 721 — Dr No

In 721 we dis­cuss the pain of FND, why Aussie investors keep invest­ing in unprof­itable com­pa­nies, and TK does a Pulled Pork on SRV.

In the club edi­tion only: the myth of the ‘new nor­mal’, why LIC AFIC is sell­ing below its NTA, how Aussie investors can ben­e­fit from the AI boom, what we should do about cop­per prices being up, how to inter­pret the num­ber of buys going down, how often is TK is mak­ing pur­chas­es based on fac­tors out­side the num­bers, and how to inter­pret the res­ig­na­tion of the PRN CFO.

QAV 720 — Boom!

The Bud­get cometh, Lessons in Kind­ness from Buf­fett, and a Deep Dive into Boom Logis­tics.

Also in the Club edi­tion: Reflec­tions on Jim Simons and Quant Invest­ing, Nav­i­gat­ing Mar­ket Fluc­tu­a­tions: FND and FPR Updates, Explor­ing VYS’s Surge, Elon Musk’s Sug­ges­tion to War­ren Buf­fett, Mar­cus has a ques­tion about apply­ing qual­i­ty score to exist­ing hold­ings, Jim asks about Life 360, Stock Doc­tor Data Integri­ty Issues, Nick asks about Josephine rules, Trent asks about AGL and LNG

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