QAV Investing Podcast

On this week's show we wrap up the financial year and the numbers are, frankly, bonkers: the AU model portfolio is up nearly 29% for the year, the Light portfolios are up nearly 36% as a group, and the US model is up 44% against a 20% S&P. Tony then does a Pulled Pork on EVZ Limited, a small engineering fabricator that has gone from 16 cents to 65 cents in 12 months and just landed on the buy list. We also get into the warning signs stacking up on Wall Street, from margin loans up 50% to the Bank of International Settlements calling out AI data centre spending as a potential GFC-style meltdown risk.

On this week's show, we wade through a big news cycle: the US-Iran peace deal that forced us to dump our oil stocks, the SpaceX IPO trading at a jaw-dropping 1,750 times PROPCAF while losing money, and the brief Korean stock market circuit breaker that felt a little too dotcom-era for comfort. Tony does a Pulled Pork on Suncorp Group, freshly returned to the buy list after divesting its banking arm to ANZ, and I run the numbers on the Dogs of the Dow versus QAV over five years.

This week Tony's back from the horse sales and dives straight into a Pulled Pork on WEB Travel Group, the B2B hotel bed-banking business spun out of the old Webjet. We also cover negative gearing changes and how they compare to what Paul Keating tried in the late 1980s, plus a listener question on Servcorp's recent price wobble, portfolio comparison notes from listener Toby, and the usual after-hours chat covering Topgolf, Bugonia, Spider Noir, and the eternal genius of Steve Austin running in slow motion.

On this episode Cameron flies solo while Tony is down the Gold Coast doing something involving horses. He covers the market fallout from Trump's surprise bombing of Iran, explains why he's hitting pause on new buys through confession season, and does a Pulled Pork on Big River Industries (BRI), a 120-year-old timber and building materials company that is quietly turning itself around. There's also a defence of value investing as an all-weather strategy, prompted by a VanEck opinion piece in the AFR.

This week Tony runs a full Pulled Pork on TIP (TeamInvest Private Group), a Sydney-based value investing education and funds management company with a flywheel business model, private equity arms, and a QAV score of 0.2 sitting frustratingly below its sentiment sell line. We also cover the Australian budget fallout, rising US bond yields, the oil price squeeze, and what all of it means for the ASX. After hours: Project Hail Mary, Rivals season two, Carnal Knowledge, The Cannonball Run, and a spirited Eurovision debrief.

On this episode, Cam and Tony work through a busy news week — the ASX's longest losing streak since 2018, oil prices going nuts, the UAE ditching OPEC, and Greg Abel's first real run at the Berkshire AGM without Warren holding the mic. Tony does a Pulled Pork on Kaiser Reef (KAU), a small Aussie gold miner that went from explorer to profitable producer after snapping up the Henty Gold Mine in Tasmania — worth a look but it's a Josephine right now. After hours: Wuthering Heights gets a surprise thumbs up from Tony, Cam can't stop raving about the 1967 Lee Marvin noir Point Blank, and Nick Cave's first novel gets a second read.