This week Guy Carson, manager of the TAMIM Australian Equity All Cap Value IMA, takes a look at the Bank levy announced in Budget 2017. Will the cost be passed on? Will the bank levy be passed on? Guy Carson Four weeks ago we wrote an article entitled Australian...
Investment Philosophy
Berkshire Hathaway AGM – notes from the ground
Robert Swift, of the TAMIM Global Equity High Conviction IMA, was recently invited to attend the ever-popular Berkshire Hathaway AGM. He has taken the time to write some notes on what he found interesting and what he observed. Berkshire Hathaway AGM - notes from the...
Why investors often undervalue simple businesses…
This week the Small Cap team take a look at why investors frequently undervalue a simple but proven business and instead hit for the fences with supposed disruptors. Why investors often undervalue simple businesses Summary: We have noticed that investors often...
Australian Supermarkets: The death of a duopoly
This week Guy Carson, manager of the TAMIM Australian Equity All Cap Value IMA, takes a look at the Australian supermarkets, the prevailing duopoly, incoming competition from ALDI, Costco and Amazon and how the future looks for this sector. Australian Supermarkets:...
Accessing IPOs and Capital Raisings
We take a look at accessing IPO's and Capital raisings. Small investors tend to be locked out of these raisings. In most instances, this is not an issue as the quality of the capital raisings tend to be poor. However, in the case of a strong IPO, you can benefit from...
Australian Banks: The death of a 25 year bull market
This week Guy Carson takes a look at the Australian banking sector, how it generates profit, how this has operated historically and what the outlook is going forward. Guy argues that the tailwinds aiding bank profitability over the last 25 years may be coming to an...
Buffett’s Bet
I recently attended a presentation by one of our investment managers to a group of self-directed investors and, as you would expect, the usual question was posed by the audience: “Warren Buffett says you should invest in passive index driven strategies and not with...
Asset Allocation: Momentum – Where should your assets be allocated?
This week Robert Swift takes a look at momentum and what it is telling us about asset allocation. Where should you deploy your capital and how? Will this achieve optimum results in the current economic climate. Asset Allocation: Momentum: Where should your assets be...
Gauging Market Expectations
The managers of the TAMIM Australian Equity Small Cap Individually Managed Account (IMA), take a look at the importance of understanding the psychology of other players in the market and reveal where they look to gauge what others are thinking and how this informs...
Reporting Season Analysis: Telstra & Brambles
Reporting Season is drawing to a close with just one week remaining. With this in mind, we thought it would be appropriate to provide an analysis of two of the bigger names to report so far. Guy Carson, manager of the TAMIM Australian Equity All Cap Value IMA,...
2017 Outlook – Trump so far and is 2017 going to be nasty?
Robert Swift has penned his thoughts on the outlook for Europe and the US in 2017. The most important conclusion we can draw is that equity markets as a whole may struggle however individual sectors and more specific stocks should do well. 2017 Outlook - Trump so far...
2017 Outlook: Value Well Placed to Shine
The team at DMX, managers of the TAMIM Australian Equity Small Cap IMA, take a look forward to 2017. 2017 Outlook: Value well placed to shine Summary: As passionate value investors we believe buying under-valued and largely unknown smaller companies is a sensible...