By Alex Pollak, CIO Loftus Peak Key takeaways: Even small European cities are imposing bans on the use of many diesel cars Disruption started in newspapers and music, but it is … Read More
The GFC ten years on, and why we’re not primed for another one
By Alex Pollak, CIO Loftus Peak Key Takeaways: This correction is just that – the problems we are facing are objectively nowhere near as large as those of the GFC At … Read More
Loftus Peak featured by MoneyManagement – ‘consistently produced top-quartile returns for all time periods…consistently outperformed the benchmark’
Originally posted on MoneyManagement here. Money Management has found five funds investing primarily in global equities that have consistently outperformed the MSCI World Index. Money Management used FE Analytics to find … Read More
Loftus Peak featured by the ASX: Making money from Disruption
By Alex Pollak and Anshu Sharma (originally published in the ASX August Investor Newsletter) When Loftus Peak first began taking investor funds four years ago there was a perception that smartphones and … Read More
Alex Pollak on 2GB with Ross Greenwood – Apple the first US trillion dollar company
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
Apple through US$1 trillion, Google, Amazon, Microsoft hot on its heels: Runaway returns to scale?
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
Loftus Peak in the AFR: The death of Moore’s Law (20th July 2018)
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
What happens in a crash, again?
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
How Apple’s buybacks create a 27% increase in EPS
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
President Trump is the reason Facebook users are angry with Zuckerberg – Alex Pollak on 2GB
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Pricing growth – why simple doesn’t work. Amazon, Apple and the Aussie market
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