It’s a new week, and we’re hitting the decks with a fast three. The stories that have had us chatting in the Equity Mates office. Sascha is joined by her colleagues to talk them through. Alec is digging into the reporting coming out of the recent Amazon antitrust lawsuit, Alf is getting me up to speed on the AI Deep Fakes plaguing celebrities. But first, Bryce is going to dive into the stoush over Liontown Resources between Australia’s richest person and an American chemicals giant.

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Atlassian - the Australian software products maker - recently announced it had agreed to buy video messaging platform Loom. They paid US $975 million for the privilege - which accounted for a significant portion of their cash reserves. It also indicates a commitment to work from home, when many big companies this year are winding back on remote work, and calling for a return to ‘business as usual’.

John McDuling, Editor in Chief at Capital Brief, joins Sascha to talk about the 2 key takeaways he thinks this aquisition signals for investors.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

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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. 

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Birkenstock Holding plc is a German shoe manufacturer known for its sandals and other shoes notable for contoured cork footbeds (soles) made with layers of suede and jute, which conform to the shape of their wearers' feet.

On September 2023, Birkenstock filed for an initial public offering (IPO) in the United States stating that the company would be listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the stock ticker "BIRK". But it didn't go well - the German company’s debut is the worst first-day showing for a US listing of $1 billion or more in over two years, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Out of more than 300 US IPOs of that size in the past century, only 13 have fared worse.

Today Alec and Sascha chat about the less that stellar debut from the shoe brand, and ask, why?

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

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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.

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It’s a two parter today! Digging into two stories that caught our attention at Equity Mates.

The Nobel Prize for Economics has just been announced, and for the third time ever, it’s been awarded to a woman. Professor Claudia Golden has won for her extensive research and academic writing on historical trends in gender equality. Sascha is joined by Jennifer Duke - who’ll tell me about the professor’s research. And then, recently, there’s been a lot of talk about a cashless future… Macquarie Bank announced that they’d be phasing out physical cash and cheques from early next year. And the Aussie government has given us a little more time, but they’ve also added… no more cheques by 2030. But what *does* the future of money look like without physical cash? Andrew Cornell, the Associate Editor for Banking and Finance at Capital Brief joins Sascha to dig into the topic.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

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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.

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Here’s some facts about endometriosis. According to the conditions’ official Australian website, more than 830 000 - or 1 in 7 - of Australian girls and women live with it at some point in their life.

Symptoms are incredibly varied - fatigue, pain, bleeding - and can vary in severity as well, which means it takes an average Australian diagnosis 6.5 years. In an Australian government report, it is reported to cost Australian society between 7.4 and 9.7 billion annually. Two thirds of these costs attributed to a loss in productivity, with the remaining 2.5 billion being direct healthcare costs.

That is, until very recently, when a series of breakthroughs signalled the cusp of change. To quote the Guardian, after generations of inaction and very few novel ideas, researcher and activist are hopeful a new path is being charted. Today Bryce and Sascha talk about the new research in the space.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

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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.

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Rupert Murdoch has stepped down from his media empire, handing over the reigns to his son Lachlan Murdoch. While a lot has been written about what Rupert Murdoch built, far less has been written about Lachlan’s thoughts on what to do with it. So we wanted to take a look. Today Sascha and Alec ask - what are Lachlan Murdoch’s plans for Fox Corp and News Corp?

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

*****

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.

The Dive is part of the Acast Creator Network.

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Epic Games - maker of Fortnite - has been firmly embroiled in this stoush already for years.  Epic sued Apple in 2020 after the game company introduced its own payment system into Fortnite, which broke Apple's rules and ultimately got the company banned from the App Store. 

A ruling in the US in April decided Epic had not shown that Apple has monopoly power… but despite this,  the fight is still ongoing here in Australia, with linked proceedings against Google, as well as parallel developer and customer class actions against the tech companies headed for a sixteen-week trial beginning in March 2024.

Today Sascha is joined by Capital Brief correspondent Laurel Henning to ask ‘what’s the latest in this fight between Apple and Epic Games?’   

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

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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.

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This episode, it’s another fast 3, as promised. What’s on the agenda? Well, Simon has an update about Elon Musk’s microchips that he plans to insert in our brains, Alec tells us why Audiobooks are at the centre of a stoush between Spotify and Apple, and also Bryce gets us up to speed with interest rates and what's coming down the pipeline for us. For all our Elon themed eps, check them out here.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

*****

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.

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Sascha is joined by Eliza Owen from Core Logic to chat about their latest data. Together they discuss the market’s remarkable rally, in spite of rising interest rates, our ever-present rental crisis, and the rise of short-term resales - a new data trend for 2023.

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

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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.

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On September 18, Michelle Bullock succeeded Dr. Phillip Lowe as the RBA Governor. Her term starts amid heightened national attention on the RBA's interest rate decisions. Add to this the fact the federal government is restructuring the RBA, and Bullock herself has noted emerging pressures on the financial system. This episode Sascha welcomes Jennifer Duke, Economics Correspondent at Capital Brief, to discuss the RBA's new direction.  

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Equity Mates Media and the hosts of The Dive 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. 

*****

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.

The Dive is part of the Acast Creator Network.

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.