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Published: January 10, 2017 Sean Callow is Senior Foreign Exchange Strategist with Westpac. He's covered international money markets for many years and has some insightful views on the recent surge in the US dollar, likely future interest rate rises from the US Fed and the impact of all these changes on the Aussie dollar. Listen to the full podcast here: theconstantinvestor.com/spotlight-sean-c...

Published: February 7, 2017 Have you checked your Facebook page today? Hopefully, you’re keeping an eye on The Constant Investor group and joining in our weekly live stream. Even if you’re not on Facebook, chances are you’ve been invited to sign up several times and seen many pages that are on Facebook. To give us all a better understanding of what this thing is that consumes so much of our tim...

Published: November 8, 2016 AGM season is underway and I've put The Spotlight on the proxy advice industry. My guest is Dean Paatsch from proxy advisers Ownership Matters. We dig into the effectiveness of boards and executive pay arrangements. Should executive pay be linked to a director's reputation? Plus, Dean shares his analysis of several Australian companies which have battled back from ta...

Published: March 22, 2017 Where can you find more entrepreneurs per capita than the US; online access to anyone’s tax return, including the Prime Minister; no poverty; and free schooling at all levels? The Viking economies: Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Iceland have a blend of capitalism and socialism which appears to make them idyllic places for business and life. Norway just topped the UN’s li...

Published: November 15, 2016 In this week’s Spotlight I speak to a retiree investor who is living off the dividends of his portfolio. Mike Macrow worked as a bank analyst for 20 years until about 10 years ago. Now he invests in banks, something I haven’t been a fan of for a long time, but Mike’s given me reason to look at them in a new light. Enjoy this week’s Spotlight. Listen to the full podc...

Published: January 17, 2017 To make sense of the start of 2017 and to look into the future of what we might expect, for this week's Spotlight I've put together a forum discussion with some of Australia's finest economic minds. Stephen Koukoulas returns to summarise his start to the year with The Constant Investor while a journalist from The Australian, Stephen Bartholomeusz, and economist Saul ...

Published: January 3, 2017 I'm kicking off the year with a look at real estate in The Spotlight with Pete Wargent. Pete is the co-founder of Allen Wargent a property advisory firm with offices in Sydney, Brisbane, and London. I spoke to him in chilly London to discuss the Australian housing market and the outlook for 2017. Pete takes us on a journey through Australia's hottest and softest prope...

Published: November 29, 2016 After Brexit, why was the world so shocked by the election outcome and where can the world go from here? Dr Nicholas Gruen, CEO of Lateral Economics, joins me to analyse the continued aftershocks of the US election. Dr Gruen even has a possible solution - including a new chamber of government. Plus, will President Trump get his tax cuts and cancel NAFTA? Listen to t...

Published: December 6, 2016 In this week’s Spotlight podcast, Alan speaks with Mike Kane, CEO of Boral. Mike is a wealth of infrastructure and construction knowledge after a decades-long career in the industry. Mike talks about Boral’s acquisition of Headwaters, a US-based company and whether the company will be responsible for building Trump’s wall. Plus, why the cement business is always a wi...

Published: January 24, 2017 "Trump won't make it through the year" - this is just one of the contrarian predictions from my Spotlight guest, Daryl Wilson. Daryl is the CEO of Affluence Fund Management and he joins me to discuss his outlook as a contrarian investor, how he sees the market and what makes his market philosophy a bit different from other investors. Plus, we delve into Daryl's other...

Published: January 24, 2017 When Hunter Hall Chairman Kevin Eley set out on a Christmas Eve bike ride, he had no idea that it would be his least relaxing ride of the year. That was when he received the call from Peter Hall to say he was resigning as CIO. Shortly after, Peter resigned as CEO and announced that he’d be selling his 45% share of the company at a third of its price. Five weeks later...

Published: September 17, 2016 Ethical investing is in The Spotlight this week as David Macri, Chief Investment Officer of Australian Ethical shares his insights. Australian Ethical has been searching for goodness within the Australian market for 30 years. Listen to the full podcast here: theconstantinvestor.com/the-spotlight-160917/ Transcript: Alan Kohler: This week I put ethical investing und...

Published: October 1, 2016 Behavioural Finance is in The Spotlight this week as Simon Russell dissects the non-mathematical factors investors should consider in their decision making. He illustrates his 12 finance strategies for us through powerful quotations and easy-to-implement examples. Mr Russell is an author and founder of Behavioural Finance Australia and his book Applying Behavioural Fi...

Published: March 15, 2017 Does the romance of being a cafe owner in your retirement years sound tempting? Just milling around, latte in hand chatting with the regulars as the profits roll in… Well, it might not be as simple as that. Graham Long, Chairman of the Australian Institute of Business Brokers, brings his small business expertise to The Spotlight. Graham says before embarking on a small...

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