Merry Christmas from the Montgomery Team
We have reached that time of the year where the sun is shining, friends and family are gathering and it’s time to hang up our keyboards and recharge. In our final post for the year, we wanted to wish you all happy and safe holiday season filled with joy.
2019 has seen record low interest rates and all-time highs for equity markets. Will this theme continue into 2020? It appears we will enter 2020 vastly different to how we started 2019 – with the ASX/300 Accumulation Index rallying 26 per cent calendar year to 19 December.
From the entire team at Montgomery, thank you for your support in 2019 and for all of your questions, comments and contributions. We hope you have enjoyed the content we have shared through the year.
We are now taking a short break but will return 13 January 2020 with new content and insights to navigate the year ahead.
If you would like to catch up on some reading during the holidays, here are our top stories from the last quarter:
Is Pointsbet holdings worth a bet?
What did we learn from the Telstra investor day?
Three small caps to keep an eye on
The power of compounding when rates are low
We also remind you about our Small Caps Management Video Series where Gary Rollo interviews management teams of the companies we own in the portfolio. You can watch the series here: MONTGOMERY SMALL CAPS MANAGEMENT VIDEO SERIES
From everyone at Montgomery, our warmest wishes and may the New Year be filled with many happy returns.
Roger Montgomery is the Founder and Chairman of Montgomery Investment Management. Roger has over three decades of experience in funds management and related activities, including equities analysis, equity and derivatives strategy, trading and stockbroking. Prior to establishing Montgomery, Roger held positions at Ord Minnett Jardine Fleming, BT (Australia) Limited and Merrill Lynch.
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Kelvin Ng
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Hi Roger and Team, wishing you all a very Happy New Year and continuing success in 2020.
Kelvin
Peter Bryan
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Roger,
A happy snappy New Year.
Thank you for a great decade of interesting articles
Peter Bryan (BryanP)
Phil Crossan
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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all. I look forward to our continuing business relationship throughout 2020.
John
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Merry Christmas Roger, colleagues, and fellow posters and readers. Thanks for your composed, reasoned and dialogical approach. In relation to the joke…
“There is a story that has been going around about a physicist, a chemist, and an economist who were stranded on a desert island with no implements and a can of food. The physicist and the chemist each devised an ingenious mechanism for getting the can open; the economist merely said, “Assume we have a can opener”!
I think the value investor, I hope, is the one who never got stranded in the first place but is able to laugh at the joke.
2020 should be an interesting year.
Roger Montgomery
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EVery year is interesting but I am curious to see if the current wave of optimism blows out or blows up.
garry peck
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As a long time and old active investor i never let a day go past without reading the Roger Montgomery blog,your indepth analysis and topic selection and quality of presenters are at the top of the tree and in this uncertain and crazy world of investing which presents speedhumps and cross roads at frequent intervals good sound reliable reading is hard to find.
With my “Valueable” book in hand some of my long term holdings thanks to Roger which i still hold today at much higher prices are,
Cochlear,Real Estate.com.au Altium, CSL, Ramsay, ARB, Seek, and the list goes on.
So why wouldnt i follow the Roger Montgomery way of investing and making money.
A very Merry Christmas and a Happy and Prosperous new year to you all.
Roger Montgomery
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Thanks for the encouraging words Garry. Sincere best wishes for a safe, peaceful and blessed Christmas.
Robert Warren
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Thanks for all the articles throughout the year best wishes to all the Montgomery team and a happy and safe Christmas and new year
Roger Montgomery
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A pleasure working for you Robert. Thank you sincerely.