Shares for Beginners

James Hill - MCF Energy | Europe's Quest for Energy Independence

22 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is the energy sector? How have tensions with Russia impacted global energy markets, and how can Europe's energy security be strengthened amidst c...

QUICK TIP - Markel | The bounty of beautiful businesses

18 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Steve Symington is an Investor/Writer/Analyst @TheMotleyFool. The episode this snippet was taken from was recorded in May 22, so a couple of reference...

Ian Irvine - LICAT | Tortured Investment Analogies

15 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Let me apologise upfront for all the banging you can hear during the episode. My neighbour was having a new roof fitted during the recording. Simplify...

Simon Shepherd - The Investment Newsletter Group | Research and Investing Newsletters

08 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can you navigate the plethora of investment newsletters? I welcome back Simon Sheperd, founder of The Investment Newsletter Group (TING). We talk ...

QUICK TIP - Fundamental and Technical - can we use both?

04 Aug 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jessica Amir is a Market Strategist | Financial Educator | Presenter. You might have seen her featured on TV, Radio & Online. This Quick Tip is fr...

Charlie Meaden - gembot.ai | Market Disconnects and Divorced Expectations

31 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to today's episode, where we'll be discussing the difference between the fundamentals of a business and what the market expects in the future....

Chris Batchelor - Stockopedia | McMillan Shakespeare (ASX:MMS)

22 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I’m joined by Chris Batchelor from Stockopedia to take a closer look at how they identified one of their highest ranking stocks McMi...

Luke Winchester - Merewether Capital | Small but perfectly formed

19 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How small is the small end of the Australian share market? Who shows the love for this end of the market? That would be Luke Winchester, MD and CIO of...

QUICK TIP - Start small, learn more, habit form

14 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Tim Ellis writes the Dad Investing Blog. I found Tim when I was browsing through a list of Australian investing blogs on Sharesight. In this Quick Tip...

Luke Hallard - 7investing | Weeding out the losers and watering the winners

12 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can the allocation of your portfolio make or break your financial future? Luke Hallard from 7Investing delves into the intricate world of portfoli...

QUICK TIP - What's my guru hoodoo

07 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Behavioural Finance is the application of psychology to financial decision making. By allowing psychological biases and emotions to affect investment ...

Aleks Nikolic - Broke Girl Wealth | Shrinking Aussie Middle Class Wealth

05 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Aleks Nikolic AKA Broke Girl Wealth is a content creator and host of the Big Swinging Stocks podcast. I was kindly invited onto that show and this is ...

QUICK TIP - Investopedia

30 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Caleb Silver is the Editor-in-Chief and Senior Vice President at Investopedia. In this Quik Tip we spoke about:How to get started investingBiggest mis...

Raji Khabbaz- Learn Wall Street | Taking the Wall St bulls by the educational horns

27 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Raji Khabbaz is the founder of Learn Wall Street, a program aimed at teaching financial literacy to grade 7-12 students. Raji is empowering the next g...

QUICK TIP - Worry, Anxiety and Stock Market Volatility

23 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Michael Kemp is the author of The Ulysses Contract. An excellent book about investing tying yourself to the mast so you don’t follow the siren song ...

Evan Lucas - Mind Over Money | just let it compound

21 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What are the secret mind powers of successful investors? How does training your mind help you to protect and grow your wealth? Joining me today to sha...

Chris Noone - CEO of Carly ASX:CL8

16 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I’ve partnered with Mark Tobin from Coffee Microcaps to produce an occasional series of interviews with CEOs from the small to mid-cap end of the AS...

Claude Walker - A Rich Life | The Rule of 40

15 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

We all know and love the high-growth companies that have (hopefully) helped to contribute to our market returns, but how can you run the tape measure ...

QUICK TIP - The dangers of cash, cons and crashes

09 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday I spoke with Raji Khabbaz who is an ex-hedge fund manager in New York city. He’s founded an education program for school students called L...

Amy Minkley - FI Freedom Retreat | Geo-arbitrage in Paradise

07 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What happens if the rug is pulled out from under you - financially, physically, spiritually? Your life can change in an instant. And how can you super...

Martin Filz - CEO Pure Profile

02 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Martin Filz is the CEO of Pureprofile, a global data and insights organisation providing industry-leading online research solutions to agencies, marke...

David Garofalo - Gold Royalty Corp | Mining for gold without the shovels

30 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

How can you mine for gold without using shovels? What is sustainable mining? How can precious metals be used in a portfolio to provide protection agai...

QUICK TIP - Ways to invest and things to avoid | From my first ever episode

26 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The first episode of this podcast was released in February 2019, and my first guest was a financial advisor named Rob Gilmour. I couldn’t have asked...

Elio D'Amato - Stockopedia | Am I ready to invest?

24 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Broadcasting live from his humble garage next to his trusty Toyota Corolla (and a clothes rack), Elio D'Amato from Stockopedia joined me to discuss sh...

QUICK TIP - Analysts gazing longingly into the future. Sometimes it's right to be wrong.

19 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

I was interviewing Andrew Page of Strawman on the 24th April this year. It was on the day that Bluescope Steel announced a significant earnings upgrad...

Vince Scully - Life Sherpa | A can of beer or a full-bodied red?

18 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Should I be investing actively or passively? Will I make more if I have an "expert" managing my dosh? Is making the most money even the right goal? Th...

QUICK TIP Mathew Hodge - Morningstar | Where YouTube and Podcasts Meet the ASX

12 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What are the common ratios you should learn before building a portfolio? I know I go on about metrics and rations, but they’re important to understa...

Gary Brode - Deep Knowledge Investing | SVB Overdrawn and underfunded

09 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Silicon Valley Bankcorp failed spectacularly in March 2023. The bank, the regulators and the media formed a circle of finger-pointing and blame. Under...

QUICK TIP - If you want a guarantee, buy a fridge from Harvey Norman

05 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to today's Quick Tip with Evan McQuire, a full-service broker from MF&Co Asset Management. With years of experience in the industry, Evan ...

Andrew Page - Strawman | Question Everything

02 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever found yourself nodding along to someone's explanation of an investing concept or number, only to realize that you have no idea what they...

QUICK TIP - Time horizon in the share market

28 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What is time horizon arbitrage? And how does growing up on a farm prepare you for dealing with stress. Time can be your best friend in markets and not...

David Scollon - JANA | Damn you Iceland!

26 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Who has the best retirement scheme in the world and how do other countries tackle rapidly ageing populations? David Scollon is a senior consultant for...

Michael Kemp - The Ulysses Contract | Avoiding the rocks of investing under-performance

19 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What does an epic poem written around 700BC tell us about investing? How are investors tempted to steer their money onto the rocks of investing underp...

Mark Tobin - Coffee Microcaps | Uncovering Hidden Gems

14 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

A chat with Mark Tobin from Coffee Microcaps about the upcoming Coffee Microcaps Conference in Sydney & Melbourne, bringing together some of Austr...

Dave Gow - Strong Money Australia | Leaving the Fear Zone

11 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Property or shares. It's a perennial Australian investing debate. We love our property, but we also love our franking credits. Generating passive inco...

Cameron Gleeson - Betashares | Mining for the Future and Royalties from the past

05 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

What are the metals that are essential to the energy transition revolution and how can you access the royalties from some of your favorite recording a...

Tim Ellis - Dad Investor | Building the craft of investing

29 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Some people leave notes for their kids on the fridge. Others start a blog. Tim Ellis is my guest in this episode. He is the author of the Dad Investor...

Tony Kynaston - QAV | Pulled pork and the fudge factor

21 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

The QAV Investing podcast is hosted by Tony Kynaston and Cameron Reilly. The podcast is based on the QAV (Quality at Value) system that uses a checkli...

Ian Irvine - LICAT | A motorist's guide to investing

14 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Listed Investment Companies have been around for a long time. In this episode I'm joined by Ian Irvine from LICAT to talk about the 100th birthday of ...

Simon Shepherd - The Investment Newsletter Group | Ranking the Newsletters

08 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

When you start delving into the world of investing, you quickly realize how many newsletters are available to help you choose stocks for your portfoli...

Value Punks | Value investing - not as easy as Warren Buffett makes it seem.

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Investment philosophy is always a work in progress. In this episode I was joined by substack authors Daye Deng and Balkar Sivia who have an article ti...

David Harvie - Saxo Markets | Looking for industries that are mandated.

22 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Somehow markets seem to be heading upwards just as the news seems to be getting worse and worse. Higher interest rates mean less money for people...

Vince Scully - Life Sherpa | How super is your annuation?

15 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Superannuation represents about a fifth of the net worth of Australian households. There’s over $2.2 trillion invested in super growing at $100 bill...

Dr Lili Sussman - Wisr Today | Money and our Minds

02 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever found yourself worrying about money despite earning a decent salary? You're not alone. In fact, nearly half of Australians report feelin...

Simon Ree - The Tao of Trading

25 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Simon Ree is the author of The Tao Of Trading: How To Build Abundant Wealth In Any Market Condition. But why does the world need another book on optio...

Julian McCormack - Platinum Asset Management | Hello 2023!

17 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Inflation, recession, high interest rates, mortgage stress, cost of living pressures, and I'll add war to that list as well. Just some of the cheery h...

Australian Shareholders' Association - Company Monitors | Telstra, BHP, RIO, Seek, Origin Energy & Lend Lease

10 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hey there, hope you're enjoying your January holidays (if you're listening in the southern hemisphere). I'm back in the saddle - at a canter not a gal...

Jodi Pettersen - Arrivederci 2022

03 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Recorded before Christmas but released as the first episode of the New Year, Jodi Pettersen has been a friend of the podcast from the early days. She'...

Ed Croft - Stockopedia | Factor investing

21 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Blog post available at: https://www.sharesforbeginners.com/blog/stockopedia Please consider a small donation if you'd like to support my work edu...

Gary Brode - Deep Knowledge Investing | Energy, Debt and Currencies

13 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Great to catch up with Gary Brode after following him so long his twitter feed. He always takes a clear position, explaining his reasoning and taking ...

Ibrahim Hussein - Computershare | The data doesn't lie

07 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is a share registry and how does it work? Ibrahim Hussein from Computershare explains that a share registry is a company that manages the relatio...

Sarah King - Stockspot | Looking after the financial needs of your parents

02 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Recently, my mother’s financial adviser retired. His clients were transferred to another advice firm. This meant that and my brother and I were pres...

QUICK TIP - Behind The Balance Sheet

26 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Stephen Clapham is the founder of Behind the Balance Sheet. He’s had a 25-year career as an investment analyst. He now offers training to profession...

Brad Smith - Braaap Motorcycles | Equity Crowd Funding

23 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brad Smith is the Founder/CEO of Braap motorcycles. He’s been named as the Australian Young Entrepreneur of the year twice, International Young Entr...

QUICK TIP - Sometimes the Tip is Only Filled With Rubbish

19 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

"There's a time and a place for being aggressively contrarian and aggressively foraging through the tip. Then there are other times when most of the s...

Vitaliy Katsenelson - Soul in the Game

15 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can listening to music make you a better investor? What if there’s something more to life than investing, stocks and money? In this episode I’...

David Scollon - MISSION PO$$IBLE

09 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

My guest today believes that the tools and levers to enable personal finance have never been better, simpler, cheaper or more accessible, particularly...

QUICK TIP - A concentrated portfolio concentrates your mind.

05 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Tony Kynaston is arguably one of Australia’s best private investors. Tony is a former senior executive of companies like Coles and Shell. He started...

Craig Mercer - Dalton Investments | Return on Equity is an Onion

02 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I've been thinking a lot lately about how little I know about the metrics that investors use to value companies. We had a look at the P/E Ratio a few ...

QUICK TIP - Self-sabotaging investment guru hoodoo

29 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Behavioural Finance is the application of psychology to financial decision making. By allowing psychological biases and emotions to affect investment ...

David Maurice Sharp - Investing Creatively

25 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There's an old cliché about the "starving" artist that may have a basis in reality, but isn’t set in stone! My guest David Maurice Sharp joined me ...

QUICK TIP - The Australian Securities and Pizza Exchange

22 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Shares in a company are like slices of pizza. But how can you find out the correct number of slices? In this Quick Tip Claude Walker from A Rich Life ...

Ross Dawson - Thriving on Overload

19 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We live in a world with an abundance of valuable information at our fingertips. But the downside is exhaustion from dizzying information overload and ...

QUICK TIP - It's your money man, take it seriously!

15 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Mike Tyson says that every boxer has a plan until they get punched in the face. And everyone is a long-term investor until they get punched in the fac...

Fiona Balzer - Australian Shareholders' Association | AGM Season 2022

12 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Fiona Balzer is the Policy and Advocacy Manager at the Australian Shareholders’ Association and each year she organises volunteers to monitor the pe...

QUICK TIP - Trying to avoid a profit warning

08 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

I interviewed Rudi Filapek-Vandyck this week and he kindly responded to my arm-twisting to give us a few more moments to discuss the violent up and do...

Rudi Filapek-Vandyck - Myth-busting the PE ratio

06 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

One of the most used investment tools available is the Price-Earnings (PE) ratio. It causes so much confusion among investors who like to treat it as ...

QUICK TIP - Hard-wired for fear

01 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There’s a 54% chance that any given day on the ASX will be an up day. It might not feel like it at the moment but that statistic holds true over a l...

Mathew Hodge - Morningstar | The Good The Bad and The Ugly of Mining

28 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's 30 plus degrees underground, a hundred percent humidity, the air is saturated, and you breathe out, like steam in the morning. The underground is...

QUICK TIP - If this correction turns nasty, things could get much worse

24 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Graham Hand is the managing editor of Firstlinks Australia, one of my favourite investing newsletters. In this Quick Tip I invited Graham to respond t...

Brendan Doggett - Sharesies | Five dollars' worth of global diversification

20 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What’s going on in markets at the moment? Does anyone have any idea? Are you looking at coal or lithium as the energy of the past, present and/or fu...

QUICK TIP - Love and marriage and money

17 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Investing and love, can they live together? How can couples have conversations about money and investing? Betsy Westcott is a financial wellness coach...

Dave Gow - Strong Money Australia | ETFs Keeping it Simple

13 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today we have a break from normal programming. You may or may not know that I am the co-host of the ETFs for Beginners Podcast. We had Dave Gow from S...

Peter Bakker - Unhedged | What are the algorithms telling us?

06 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Peter Bakker is an algorithmic trading fanatic, a seasoned entrepreneur and marketing executive. Peter has been trading using algorithmic methods for ...

QUICK TIP - Commodities, Lithium and never losing money

03 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Scott Phillips is the Chief Investment Officer from The Motley Fool. In this Quick Tip we define what a a commodity is, if lithium is a commodity and ...

Spencer Jakab from the Wall Street Journal | The Revolution That Wasn't

31 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you don't know who the sucker is at the poker table it's you. I was joined in this conversation by Wall Street Journal reporter Spencer Jakab. His ...

QUICK TIP - Inflation and Black Swans | with Jordan Eliseo

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jordan Eliseo is the Manager - Listed Products and Investment Research at The Perth Mint. In this Quick Tip we talk about inflation and Black Swan eve...

Prashant Mohan - Sharesight fun with corporate actions and accounting

24 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We started with the best of intentions to talk about corporate actions but took a couple of turns along the way. Prashant Mohan is the Chief Marketing...

QUICK TIP - Accounting is the language of finance

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ethan Widell is an Investment Analyst at IronHold Capital. In this quick tip Ethan talks about his passion for reading financial reports. It's importa...

David Bassanese - Chief Economist at Betashares - Some economic basics

17 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Economic news or fear porn? Sometimes it's difficult to tell the difference. News media love our eyeballs and bad news is what grabs our attention. Ba...

QUICK TIP - Match your risk to your experience

13 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Claude Walker is the founder of A Rich Life writing the Ethical Equities column. In this Quick Tip Claude talks about matching your risk to your exper...

Leigh Gant - Australian Shareholders' Assoc | Putting in the investing reps

10 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are many parallels between fitness, sport and investing. The traps that people fall into when they are trying to make money quickly are similar ...

QUICK TIP - AGM season is almost upon us

06 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

AGM season is fast approaching. Most major companies listed on the ASX hold their Annual general Meetings around October. In this Quick Tip Fiona Balz...

Mathew Hodge - Morningstar | Finding your investing style

02 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What's your investment style? What makes a good business? What makes a good investment? In this episode I'm joined by Matthew Hodge, Director of Equit...

QUICK TIP - Fixed Income - What is it, and how does it sit in a portfolio?

30 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

There are many asset classes with various risk profiles that investors need to be aware of. If you take a look at your super, you’ll often see Fixed...

Caleb Gibbins - Cache | Micro-investing for everyone

26 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How can you start investing with $5? The micro-investing space is a rapidly growing market and Cache is on a mission to help more people invest. ...

QUICK TIP - The vibe is everything

23 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Thom Benny is the Communications Director at navexa.io, a fintech startup that tracks portfolio performance and returns for investors around the world...

Simon Shields - Monash Investors | Reporting Season

20 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What is reporting season and how do analysts and fund managers find the numbers to run the tape measure over a company? Australian listed companies sh...

QUICK TIP - What's an index and why is it important to look behind ETFs?

16 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just as you study a company before you buy it’s shares, you need to study ETFs and what they are comprised of before diving in. Simon Karaban is a S...

Steve Symington - 7investing | Companies of the future v old time business

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

From the birth of disco (it was 1953!), capital raising, the tortoise and the hare, businesses blessed by bountiful accounting principles and the bank...

Craig Swanger - Super Fierce | How does your superannuation work?

06 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

For any woman who's under the age of 40 right now, their super will be the largest asset they ever own. Most people don't understand that it's their m...

Zarmeen Pavri & Jeremy Liddle - SDGx Ventures Climate Tech Fund

29 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What are the UN's Sustainable Development Goals and how can investing help to achieve them? What's the difference between ESG & Impact Investing? ...

Andrew Page - Strawman | The end of the world as we know it

22 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

A look at the bloodbath of the current markets, the impact it's having on portfolios and investor psychology, and the importance of a strong balance s...

Andrew Baxter - Australian Investment Education

15 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Baxter saw his parents exchange the time for dollars. He was well and truly on that treadmill until he realised that that money can actually wo...

Vic Jokovic - Cboe Australia | Crypto ETFs are here

08 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Do you think that the Australian stock market IS the ASX? Few people know that there's another exchange accounting for 20-25% of daily trades. Cboe Au...

QUICK TIP - When markets break bad

05 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Andrew Page is the Founder and Managing Director at Strawman.com - in this Quick Tip he discusses how to approach markets during down periods and ways...

Shaun Weick - Wilson Asset Management | Soft Landing or Recession?

31 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The environment that we've lived in over the past couple of years in particular with whole new asset classes like cryptocurrencies, just spawning up o...

Steve Mabb - Chair Australian Shareholders' Association | Looking after small shareholders

25 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What’s an AGM? A proxy? What powers do small retail shareholders wield to influence the board decisions of mighty companies on the ASX. Steve Mabb i...

Craig Mercer - Dalton Investments | Valuable lessons from everyday life

18 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

What do Star Wars, Noah, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and tattoos have to do with investing? Everything. Master storyteller Jonny Tomahawk uses the e...

Dr Laura Rusu - Diversiview | The efficient frontier of portfolios

11 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's all about the data and technology for Dr Laura Rusu, the Founder and CEO of LENSELL, a Fintech that aims to democratise access to financial infor...