Stuart Fieldhouse talks to Rob Peterman of the Toronto Stock Exchange to talk about the TSX Venture 50 list of companies. Many TSXV-listed companies are available for trading to investors outside Canada. The TSX Venture Exchange includes 1,600 firms and we learn how the exchange picks the best 50 stocks every year.

00:00 Intro to the TSX Venture 50

01:46 How are the constituents chosen?

02:07 What does membership mean to companies?

03:47 What drives trading volume?

05:19 Any sector bias this year?

08:16 Companies in the innovation sector

10:20 Why consider TSX Venture 50 stocks?

12:13 Differences between TSX Venture and the TSX

15:13 How the TSX helps companies list

Manolo Zúñiga, President & CEO of PetroTal [LON:PTAL] joins Stuart on the podcast this week. We talk about the oil company's assets in Peru, how their remoteness affects development of the sites and the transport of the oil, minimising the environmental impact and future plans.

00:00 Intro to PetroTal

01:39 The oil industry in Peru

04:31 PetroTal's assets: Block 95 and 107

06:17 How has the site's remoteness affected development?

10:12 The current drilling schedule

13:26 How is the oil transported?

15:49 What's been driving the PetroTal share price?

17:33 Sustainability and the impact on the environment

21:00 Future plans

Stuart Fieldhouse speaks with Kaleeg Hainsworth, CEO and Founder of Canada-listed Legible [CSE:READ] to discuss the business, it's tie-ups with the big five publishers and how it utilises AI to improve the customer experience.

Kaleeg talks about upcoming plans which includes exciting developments in the automotive industry and the businesses key social mission which centres around accessibility, sustainability and literacy.

00:00 Introduction to Legible [CSE:READ]

02:14 Legible vs. Audible

05:40 Tie-ups with book publishers

07:50 How does Legible use AI?

13:05 Celebrity book launches, including Christina Ferrari cookbooks

16:58 Installing Legible in cars

24:06 Legible's social mission

29:49 Future plans

Chris Ganatti, Global Head of Research at WisdomTree, is back on the show. Stuart and Chris look at how January's approval by the SEC of Bitcoin ETFs may change the crypto market.

00:00 Why was the approval of Bitcoin ETFs by the SEC so important?

03:31 Why did the BTC price move as it did?

06:34 What's so different about these new products?

08:55 Is this a major milestone in the adoption of crypto?

10:50 How do these BTCETFs compare with other routes into crypto?

12:58 Effect on institutional investors

14:54 Demand for non-BTC ETFs

16:54 How the European market may be affected

18:48 About Bitcoin halving

In our first episode of the new season, Stuart Fieldhouse chats to Giga Metals [TSXV:GIGA] CEO & Chairman Mark Jarvis.

They discuss the Giga Metals nickel resources in Canada, where the demand is coming from and how the US Inflation Reduction Act may affect the market for this strategic metal.

00:00 Intro to Giga Metals

01:22 Who are the biggest consumers of Nickel?

03:53 Giga Metals nickel resources in Canada

05:26 Has the market underestimated the opportunity?

07:23 Timeline of development and investment

10:40 The joint venture with Mitsubishi Metals

15:16 ESG and sustainable mining

20:04 Car manufacturers getting involved with mining

23:07 Governments securing supplies of strategic metals

26:46 Priorities for 2024

We meet Didar Bekbauov, co-founder of Bitcoin mining company Xive. Originally based in Kazakhstan, Xive has since moved much of its operations to Texas for the more favourable environment there. We talk about the next Bitcoin halving event, cheap vs green energy and the approval of Bitcoin ETFs.

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00:00 Intro to Xive

01:53 Challenges of Kazakhstan energy infrastructure

02:59 Effect of China's mining ban

04:09 Relocating to Texas

05:28 How much BTC are Xive mining?

06:15 How can investors get involved?

07:26 Uptime in Kazakhstan vs Texas

08:49 Rationalisation in US Bitcoin mining, pre-halving

10:21 The next halving event

15:53 Cheap vs Green electricity

20:02 Approval of Bitcoin ETFs

23:50 More details on Xive.com

Pierre Debru is Head of Quantative Analysis and Multi-Asset Analysis at WisdomTree. We talk about potential advantages of ETFs over direct stock investment, designing a resilient investment strategy and how to find quality in small, medium and large caps.

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00:00 ETFs vs investing directly into shares

01:50 Are people overweight tech stocks?

05:20 How do you design a dividend stock index?

08:44 Designing a resilient strategy

14:01 Finding quality in small, medium and large caps

15:15 Advantages of ETFs vs stocks: leverage and diversification

18:15 A potential strategy for the next 6 months

We look at a way to access the best traders on the planet with Lane Clark of The Portfolio Platform.

Where is your money invested and how far can you trust the expert traders?

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00:00 Intro to TPP - The Portfolio Platform

05:25 How do you choose and monitor expert traders?

14:36 What sort of investors use TPP?

16:10 Scaling up the business globally

17:25 Risks

19:06 How much money are clients investing?

20:44 Capacity issues

22:39 Why take on risk in a cautious environment?

24:13 More information at tppglobal.io

In this episode, Stuart Fieldhouse speaks with Alasdair Haynes, CEO of Aquis, which is best known for running the Aquis Stock Exchange in the UK. We look at why London needs another exchange and why investors should look at Aquis-listed stocks.

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00:00 Intro to Aquis

01:45 Why does London need another exchange?

03:16 Why should investors look at Aquis Exchange plc and Aquis-listed companies

07:15 What else does Aquis do aside from run the exchange?

10:05 Aquis company results comment

13:36 Beyond London, into Europe

15:05 Recent changes to trading rules

18:01 The UK's IPO drought

This week we talk about the AI sector. We're joined by Chris Ganatti, WisdomTree's Global Head of Research, to look at the top AI stocks, what to look out for in the AI market and how you can actually invest in AI.

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00:00 Is AI overhyped?

02:47 Why did ChatGPT get people excited?

05:54 Beyond Nvidia, the top 3 AI stocks: Microsoft, Tesla, Cadence, Synopsys

08:25 Who has the best AI tech right now?

09:52 How much will the AI market be worth by 2030?

12:05 Comparing AI to the 19th Century railway revolution

14:11 What will drive value in the AI sector?

16:49 Risks and losers

20:27 Hysterical headlines and government intervention

23:48 How do I actually invest in AI?