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Still a growth company? - Nike | Summer Series
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Over twelve episodes this Summer, we’re diving into some of the most exciting, interesting and well known companies in Australia and the US. In each episode we’re also joined by an expert to help us unpack the key metrics, the bull case and the bear case for each company. Today we’re chatting about Nike, and we’re joined by Bob Desmond from Claremont Global.
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39:56||Season 9Kerry Craig is Executive Director & Global Market Strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management Every year for the past 29 years JPMorgan's team of market experts have built their Long Term Capital Market Assumptions to predict the next 10-15 years of markets and help guide their institutional clients and in-house investment teams. Today on the show, Kerry Craig helps us understand where J.P. Morgan Asset Management sees the world going:Where Trump will have the biggest impact on marketsHow inflation and interest rates will impact the US and Australia from hereThe best performing stock markets for the next 15 years How AI will impact the economy Where retail investors should be investing —------Thank you to J.P. Morgan Asset Management for sponsoring this episode and helping us keep all of our content free.Find out more about JGLO on their website and check out the full range of Active ETFs.—------Sign up to our daily news email to get the news moving markets delivered to your inbox at 6am every weekday morning. Short, sharp, to the point, it'll get you up to speed in less than 5 minutes.—------Want more Equity Mates?Listen to our basics-of-investing podcast: Get Started Investing (Apple | Spotify)Watch Equity Mates on YouTubePick up our books: Get Started Investing and Don’t Stress, Just InvestFollow us on social media: Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn—------In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Equity Mates Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. —------Equity Mates Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional. Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.Bryce get's a sanity check, the one big risk for Nvidia, & why the stock market is history's greatest wealth creator
32:47||Season 9Bryce's portfolio is out of sync. Over the past year his leveraged ETFs have run hard and grown into a large percentage of his total portfolio. So now he's wondering what he should do: rebalance, let his winners run, double-down? To help us think through what to do next we called one of Australia's top financial advisers, Charlie Viola of Viola Private Wealth. That's not all we cover in another big episode of Equity Mates:More good news for Nvidia with its Blackwell chip selling out But there is a risk in their customer concentration The number of Australians behind on their mortgage has doubled since 2016 Why the stock market is history's greatest wealth creator —------Want to get involved in the podcast? Record a voice note or send us a message on our website and we'll play it on the podcast.—------Sign up to our daily news email to get the news moving markets delivered to your inbox at 6am every weekday morning. Short, sharp, to the point, it'll get you up to speed in less than 5 minutes.—------Want to speak to one of our hand-picked advisers? Fill out the form on our website and we'll put you in touch.—------Want more Equity Mates?Listen to our basics-of-investing podcast: Get Started Investing (Apple | Spotify)Watch Equity Mates on YouTubePick up our books: Get Started Investing and Don’t Stress, Just InvestFollow us on social media: Instagram, TikTok, & LinkedIn—------In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of Equity Mates Investing acknowledge the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respects to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people today. —------Equity Mates Investing is a product of Equity Mates Media. This podcast is intended for education and entertainment purposes. Any advice is general advice only, and has not taken into account your personal financial circumstances, needs or objectives. Before acting on general advice, you should consider if it is relevant to your needs and read the relevant Product Disclosure Statement. And if you are unsure, please speak to a financial professional. Equity Mates Media operates under Australian Financial Services Licence 540697.