Andrew Macken is a Portfolio Manager at Montgomery Global Investment Management. Andrew joined Montgomery in March 2014 after spending four years as a Research Analyst under Jim Chanos at Kynikos Associates in New York.
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If you follow global financial trends, you would have noted the continual (and recently accelerating) decline in the slope of the US yield curve. Recently, it has narrowed to a level not seen since 2007. Continue…
Back in May 2017, Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, issued a warning about the future of artificial intelligence and the potential for a dystopian, 1984-like future. As the scandal engulfing Facebook and Cambridge Analytica shows, it’s time we all became a lot more concerned about the malicious use of this technology. Continue…
In this article published in the Herald Sun, Andrew discusses Nine Entertainment. In the six-months to December, Nine’s television business delivered 10 per cent growth. Read here.
While Seven West Media was covering gold being won at the Olympic Games in PyeongChang in recent weeks, it was rival Nine Entertainment (ASX:NEC) that won gold during the Australian earnings season. Continue…
The debate on the merits of active funds management versus passive continues to rage on. Your author is (obviously) firmly in the camp of supporting the merits of quality active funds management. And while this is entirely self-serving, it would be difficult to devote one’s life to such a vocation without genuine belief in its merits. Continue…
Readers will know that we buy the publicly traded stocks of individual global businesses when we identify: (i) a high degree of business quality; and (ii) substantial evidence that the business is being underpriced by the market. Continue…
In this article published in the Herald Sun, Andrew discusses the weakness in the US dollar and strength in the Aussie dollar. What could possibly be pushing the greenback down and the Aussie up? Read here.
In this video Andrew discusses how Montaka offers downside protection. In the month of February global markets delivered volatility, so how did Montaka track against this?
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Has the recent weakness in the US dollar surprised you? Has the strength in the Aussie dollar had you scratching your head at all? To many, including your author, these moves have been counter-intuitive to some degree. So what could possibly be placing downward pressure on the Greenback and upward pressure on the Aussie? Continue…
Vesna Poljak wrote an article for the Australian Financial Review where she discusses Andrew’s view on the current market volatility and what could happen if we see a surprise upside in the US inflation data. Read here.
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