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The InvestSense Podcast

The InvestSense Podcast

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244

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Aug 2026

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InvestSense discuss the latest in portfolio management, economics and investments while joined by leading voices from around the world. Learn more about InvestSense: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-our-solutions Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast&utm_medium=Weekly

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August 14, 202622 min

What Australian small caps add to diversified portfolios in the here and now with Ben Griffiths

Australian small caps are usually treated as a satellite, added when markets feel buoyant and trimmed at the first sign of trouble. The S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries is not a miniature ASX 100 though, and it is not the banks and iron ore that drive it. We speak with Ben Griffiths of Eley Griffiths Group about what small caps genuinely add to a diversified portfolio, and why valuations make this a better than usual moment to be asking.Join the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

August 10, 20264 min

The strongest earnings season since 2021

With 88% of the S&P 500 now reported, second-quarter blended earnings growth stands at 50.4% — the strongest since Q2 2021 — on revenue growth of 15.0%, itself the best since late 2021. The headline flatters, though. Alphabet's result included a US$98 billion unrealised gain on equity securities and Amazon's a US$53.4 billion gain on its Anthropic investment; strip those paper gains out and earnings growth is a still-remarkable 32%Get access to the graphs: www.investsense.com.au/industry-articles/us-earnings-growth-hits-50-4-or-32-once-the-paper-gains-come-out Join the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

August 3, 20268 min

Inflation breaks the RBA's way while markets punish big tech spending

The last week of July was another round trip for markets with the NASDAQ and chip heavy emerging markets indices off 4–5% earlier in the week before making most of it back in the final sessions. Over the month the pain was concentrated exactly where the year's gains had been: Korean stocks, mainly the chipmakers that now make up some 28–32% of the emerging-markets index, fell around 10%, moving in near lockstep with the NASDAQ. At the other end of the spectrum, the Australian market rose about 2%. Three things are feeding the uncertainty: geopolitics, a regime change in US monetary policy, and a US reporting season revealing a bifurcation in how investors view big tech's differing approaches to the AI rolloutGet access to the graphs:  www.investsense.com.au/industry-articles/inflation-breaks-the-rbas-way-while-markets-punish-big-tech-spending Join the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

July 31, 202612 min

Putting Ourselves in the Way of Good Luck

The job of multi-asset investors is to build portfolios where a concentrated, catalyst-driven strategy has the space and the time horizon, five to seven years, to do what it does, without being rolled out at the worst possible moment. This week, JR spoke to James Hawkins of L1 Capital about what it takes to run ten stocks through stretches where high-conviction, value-driven investing was decidedly out of favour.Join the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

July 28, 202621 min

Beyond the chip trade in emerging markets with Rahul Desai of Aikya

Rising GDP does not reliably translate into returns in emerging markets. The index is dominated by state-owned enterprises, political conglomerates and whichever theme is in vogue. Today that’s semiconductors, at more than 40% of the index. We speak to Rahul Desai of Aikya, who focuses on cash-generative domestic franchises across India, Brazil and South Africa that have compounded at 10–15% in US-dollar terms for two decades. Their core principle is that you lose money two ways, by buying poor quality or by overpaying.

July 27, 20265 min

Who funds the AI boom when borrowing costs are rising?

Australian employment and US earnings led the news last week. The story is a familiar one wearing new clothes: an energy shock testing disinflation progress just as markets question the AI capex boom's cash generation. Get access to the graphs: www.investsense.com.au/industry-articles/who-funds-the-ai-boom-when-borrowing-costs-are-rising Join the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

July 24, 202626 min

Why Markets = Faith x Liquidity with Economist Andrew Hunt

Andrew Hunt often says Markets = Faith x Liquidity. While faith may have peaked, liquidity clearly hasn't yet. His message is to stay invested for now, while avoiding the frothiest and most volatile areas of the market which will move quickest and most if the dynamics of that equation deteriorate further. Is Korea over the last 6 weeks or so the canary in the coal mine? He will also be watching for the point where quantitative tightening actually starts to shrink liquidity rather than just reshuffle it, at which point we will have another, possibly hasty conversation.

July 20, 20269 min

Volatility Returns But Not Everywhere

As the US reporting season gets underway, volatility has been creeping back into markets, and in a distinctly uneven way.In summary, the Australian economy is looking a little resilient, and a flat year behind us means a more stable valuation starting point, not such a bad thing. The volatility in hotter corners of markets is worth discussing alongside how portfolios are positioned around it. While we see no reason to run for the hills, the next year may not look like the last one. What we are seeing in Korea might be an early signal, or big tech earnings may continue to impress and settle things again. Get access to the graphs: www.investsense.com.au/industry-articles/volatility-returns-but-not-everywhere Join the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

July 13, 20267 min

Looking through the noise with markets priced for much good news

Most markets finished the week lower, though the Australian market held its ground. The pattern is telling: a dip through the middle of the week and a partial recovery into Friday.  The oil price traced almost the exact mirror image, spiking to around US$80 a barrel before easing back to US$76. Get access to the graphs: www.investsense.com.au/industry-articles/looking-through-the-noise-with-markets-priced-for-much-good-newsJoin the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

July 6, 202610 min

AI, oil and a flat local market: FY25/26 in review

Markets moved through a defining week as three storylines, a fragile Middle East de-escalation, a softer US labour market and a renewed wobble in the AI trade, reset expectations for the second half of 2026. It also closes a financial year that, in hindsight, was almost entirely about momentum and about being on the right side of the AI trade.Get access to the graphs: www.investsense.com.au/industry-articles/ai-oil-and-a-flat-local-market-fy25-26-in-review  Join the InvestSense Community to receive weekly insights from our investment team: https://www.investsense.com.au/investsense-insights?utm_source=Podcast+&utm_medium=MarketSenseCheck

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