How Germany’s ‘gas reserve rescue’ myth could rock already fragile markets Most investors understand that Germany is highly dependent on Russian gas, which met 49% of its gas usage in 2021. In August 20221 the German government announced it...
Recently analysts and market commentators have been quite skeptical about the future of Meta Platforms following its third quarter earnings in early November. Decoding Meta’s results and founder/CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s accompanying remarks, it is clear Meta is no longer...
“Resilience is all about being able to overcome the unexpected. Sustainability is about survival. The goal of resilience is to thrive.” – Jamais Cascio, author and futurist As we enter a turbulent economic outlook with a risk of recession,...
During this year’s Holon Guide to Better Investing, we have outlined several principles that are important to building a sustainable long-term investment portfolio. We started with how to identify great investments, then provided some insights on financial statements, models,...
It wasn’t that long ago that Alibaba was a market darling. It was a pin up stock for China’s “New Economy” and became the country’s most valuable company. But since late 2020, a cascade of political, economic, and regulatory...
How an anti-US ‘Team B’ trading block could use its energy dominance to cripple developed economies – and markets. The energy dominance of a rising Team B is a major risk to markets A rising Team B now has...
The Holon Bitcoin Report is now live. Our research team have the latest on the world’s biggest and most talked about cryptocurrency, to help you make sense of it all and make informed choices. From the origins of Bitcoin...
When will the stock market bottom? After a savage sell-off, particularly in the US, many investors are wondering when stocks will find a floor and begin their rebound. But they are ignoring a real risk that haunts students of...
Last month we began our look at the question of whether it was even possible to measure innovation. We believe the answer is a resounding ‘yes’, and as a reminder we present once again Holon’s Six Core Pillars of...
August marks the main period of what those in the know refer to as “Earnings season”. It’s a very important month for companies because they get to show how they have performed over the first six months of the...
As a beneficiary of China’s astonishing socio-economic change, Alibaba today is one of the most dominant and successful e-commerce platforms globally, with over 1 billion users in China and roughly 300 million in other global locations. However, over the...
If someone asked you to define innovation, what would you say? There are probably a few versions. The dictionary has it as the “practical implementation of ideas that result in the introduction of new goods or services or improvement...
There isn’t much use for a decent retirement if the world is practically unhabitable by the time you retire. And at Holon, we believe that the technological advances of Web 3.0, or more simply the digitisation of the world,...
In our May newsletter piece titled Three waves to keep inflation high over the next decade, we introduced the concept of Team A vs Team B, and concluded that we will shift from a US-centric unipolar world to a...
Anyone can give ten commandments; Holon gives you eleven. Navigating the relentless “noise” to assess investment opportunities and strategies as expediently as possible is a difficult task for the average investor. However, the following Eleven Commandments should be of...
Holon and Filecoin Green, a Protocol Labs initiative to decarbonize the Filecoin Network, have now released their first comprehensive Web 3.0 Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) report. It not only creates the sustainability framework of the future, but it...
Investors know that cryptocurrencies have been falling heavily. Bitcoin alone is down almost 70% from its peak, and this crypto correction has triggered all sorts of misinformation. Social media algorithms and click bait addicted bloggers have done their best...
In 2021, nothing could go wrong. Equities were flying, inflation was ‘transient’, governments were handing out money for free, Bitcoin was going to $500,000 and debt no longer mattered. Fast forward to 2022, and it’s hard to find a...
Last month we finished walking through each of the financial statements that are the key ingredients in a company’s annual report. When an investor reads these three financial statements together, they can gain a good picture of a company’s...
MD Heath Behncke gives a performance and market update for the Holon Photon Fund for May 2022 below. He discusses key market themes for the month along with portfolio activity. You can read the performance report here.
Many investors would have heard about the recent dramatic collapse of the Terra USD stablecoin peg which led to the loss of US$16 billion of investor capital. While this event triggered a large spike in investor fears over digital...
David Fedirchuk: Can you tell us your background and how you ended up with Holon? Jonathan Hooker: I started with Holon around about two and a half years ago. Before that I was actually consulting at the University of...
You’re likely to have heard the rumblings: there will be exponentially more data created, in the very near future. But, how much? How much is too much, i.e. can we store it all? Do we need to? And how...
Ever heard the expression ‘Cash is king’? Yes, of course you have. There is a reason this age-old advice has been repeated longer than most can remember. In investing and business, cash flow or liquidity is a vitally important...
The Holon Photon Fund has achieved a 9.8% per annum since inception (July 2019) , outperforming the MSCI AC World Net Index by 0.9%. Watch below our April 2022 performance and market update by MD Heath Behncke. He discusses...
Web 3 and Me! (With love and respect to Dr. Suess) Far off in the distant past, the internet was not so fast. Controlled by few so they say, there was no option, no other way. Message me, message...
For more than a generation – since at least the 1950s – there have been a few geopolitical and economic certainties in the world: the US has the strongest economy, the US president is the most powerful person, the...
Now more than ever we get asked by friends and family how to invest in Bitcoin, particularly with the digital asset remaining well off November highs and now offering great value in many investor’s eyes. Those very same friends...
In March we explained the nuances, and spruiked the excitement that can be found in a company’s annual report. This month we find ourselves in a similar situation, this time via a company’s income statement and balance sheet, to...
The Holon Photon Fund has achieved a 15.1% per annum since inception (July 2019) , outperforming the MSCI AC World Net Index by 4.8%. Watch below our Q1 2022 performance and market update by MD Heath Behncke. He discusses...
We would like to firstly make it explicitly clear to our readers that we do not in any way support the military conflict between Russia and Ukraine. War is horrible and the wrong action regardless of who is involved....
Hang on to your CVV, as E-commerce is on the cusp of a rapid transformation. By 2025 global E-commerce sales are expected to hit almost $US7.4 trillion, driven by a rising middle class and growing internet and smartphone penetration...
We all know the annual report, and they’re not often described as ‘exciting’, are they? Many will be familiar with it as a detailed document outlining the operations of a company for the financial year. It discloses a range...
Let’s be honest, we’ve all been a bit alert, and alarmed. For investors, the prospect of rising inflation creating serious headwinds on investment performance in 2022 feels very real. These fears are understandable; after inflation recently hit 40-year highs...
The following recipe for ‘Global Volatility’ has been served a great deal throughout history. In small or large portions is it guaranteed to please if you don’t eat it. Bon Appétit! Ingredients 1 cup of accelerating technological innovation; 1...
We want to share with you on how we develop a formal process to identify and research investment opportunities – Holon’s research approach that narrows our focus. This allows us to zero in on investment themes where we have...
The Holon Photon Fund has achieved a 14.8% per annum since inception (July 2019), outperforming the MSCI ACWI Index by 3.6 %. Watch our February 2022 performance and market update by MD Heath Behncke. He discusses key market themes...
The Holon Photon Fund has achieved a 18.3% per annum since inception (July 2019) , outperforming the MSCI AC World Net Index by 4.4 %. Watch below our January 2022 performance and market update by MD Heath Behncke. He...
Bitcoin surged in 2021. It reached an all-time high of over US$68,000 on November 10 and was up 48.5% on the calendar year. It is still the highest performing asset of the last ten years, and yet like so...
Investing in public markets can be a tough exercise, and during aggressive market sell-offs like we have seen over the past few weeks, it can sometimes even be cruel. Managing your emotions during these difficult periods is critical, especially...
David Fedirchuk : Heath, thank you fitting us in during this very busy time. With everyone back at work for 2022, I wanted to pass on some of the more common questions we get asked through our online channels...
The Holon Photon Fund has achieved a 22.6% per annum since inception (July 2019) , outperforming the MSCI AC World Net Index by 7.5 %. Watch below our Q4 2021 performance and market update by MD Heath Behncke. He...
As we approach another fast-moving year in crypto, so much is new, but there are still old questions being asked. Many investors remain totally baffled by the number of digital assets available. What exactly is the point of so...
Gold should really be shining now. Inflation is emerging and with global economies still struggling to recover from Covid-19 related lockdowns, central banks will likely continue to stimulate with low interest rates and quantitative easing (‘printing money’). In this...
Since Holon’s beginnings in 2018, the digital asset conversation has evolved rapidly. Back then, Bitcoin was a dirty word, and the scandals of Initial Coin Offerings only demonstrated the ‘wild west’ attitude of an immature crypto-world. Skepticism by the...
The radical world of play-to-earn. How can a game that doesn’t exist be worth $US10 billion? In recent months I have been down yet another crypto rabbit hole, trying to understand the ‘play-to-earn’ space which, on the surface, can...
‘Meta’ (formerly Facebook) was recently impacted by revelations from a former employee turned whistleblower, Frances Haugen, about serious concerns of the social media company’s internal data privacy policies and use of targeted algorithms. Meta also reported lower-than-expected top-line revenue...
Data has been described as the new oil. But it is now literally gushing everywhere. And that’s only going to get worse with the rise and rise of electric vehicles (EVs) which will create a global data storage crisis,...
Most financial commentators think stocks are overvalued and that global growth is slowing as we emerge from 18 months of Covid-19 lockdowns. We don’t think so. In fact, we believe society is about to enter a period of explosive...
Investors no doubt have seen the massive shift to online digital streaming over the last five years with the likes of Netflix, Disney, Apple, and Amazon. A less well-known company that fits this thematic is Roku, which is digitising...
There is no doubt that Tesla and its founder Elon Musk polarize investors and markets. Some investors are Tesla fanatics who follow every tweet from Elon like a religion, while others, including Michael Bury (of “The Big Short” fame), call Tesla the “greatest short in the world”. Once again,...
Holon Global’s unique analysis values Tesla today at US$3,369 per share with Tesla set to dominate a massively expanded EV market of 206 million vehicle sales by 2050. Subscribe below to download the PDF version of the full Report...
One of the more misleading terms in the digital asset space is ‘mining’. The term stems from Bitcoin mining, where people use it to describe the process whereby, after allocating computer resource to the Bitcoin Network, you ‘find’ (or...
All investors are prone to bias. Many investors particularly like to generalise to mask a lack of understanding. A common generalisation we see is when clients and potential clients assume that innovative and disruptive companies in our portfolio do...
Foreign investors have been dumping Chinese stocks on fears the Chinese Government’s recent policy changes will unwind the country’s two decades of economic successes. Experienced China investors took advantage of the selloff to accumulate positions in both Tencent and...
The Holon Photon Fund has achieved a 47.6% return over the last 12 months, outperforming the MSCI AC World Net Index by 20 %. Watch below our Q2 2021 performance and market update by MD Heath Behncke. He discusses...
In March this year, this seemingly simple pixelated image below, Cryptopunk #3100 an NFT, sold for a staggering $US7.58 million. Source: https://www.larvalabs.com/cryptopunks/details/3100 … Welcome to the strange world of NFT’s! NFT stands for Non-Fungible Token. (Fungible essentially means...
When it comes to data storage, most investors would have heard of, and probably used, Dropbox to share files. But few would have heard of newer storage providers, ‘Fleek’ and ‘Slate’. These three companies/technologies illustrate a stark divide. Dropbox...
Last month, Holon wrote a note arguing that investors had misinterpreted the Chinese regulator’s recent policy announcement that sent shares plummeting. Many fund managers are now dumping their Chinese holdings, declaring the country too risky. We believe that this...
Chinese equity markets have again seen heavy selling pressure over the past month following a series of policy announcements from the Chinese government targeting anti-competitive behaviour in its domestic economy. Western commentators have been quick to label each of...
The Commonwealth Bank (CBA), Australia’s largest bank and company (with a market cap of A$175bn), recently rallied to all-time highs, crossing the A$100 mark. But we don’t believe these moves are based on fundamentals. In this article we compare...
Tokenomics: How do you value Filecoin? Many investors are considering adding cryptocurrencies to their portfolio, or even increasing their allocation. At the same time, crypto prices have been volatile. So investors are naturally asking the question: ‘What is it...
Submission 10 Holon Global Investments Limited provides the following submission to the Senate Select Committee on Australia as a Technology and Financial Centre regarding its Third Issues Paper. Executive Summary Holon Global Investments Limited believes that the accelerating evolution...
Traditional value stocks have rebounded strongly from their 2020 lows, with the MSCI US Value Index up 40% over the past 12 months and investors believing they are undervalued and likely to benefit from stimulus-related spending. Investors rotated away...
Filecoin has been labelled the Airbnb of cloud storage and, within the digital asset space, there is a lot of excitement about the potential of Filecoin. But what does it mean to be the Airbnb of cloud storage, and...
In a world of crypto and buy-now-pay later (BNPL), Visa — and even the very notion of credit cards — might be starting to seem old fashioned. But the company is actually well placed to benefit from the accelerating...
There is no doubt that tech investors have had a tough time recently. Technology stocks have slumped in reaction to the surge in US 10-Year bond yields towards 1.75% in April, triggered by fears of a shift in central...
If you walked out your front door and took 30 ‘exponential’ steps, let’s say west, where would you land? Would you be in NSW? In Perth? South America? You would, in fact, travel 26 times around the planet. Not...
“Show me the incentive and I’ll show you the outcome” -Charlie Munger. Web 3.0 innovation, Filecoin, is a decentralised cloud platform that is set to become the ‘Airbnb’ for cloud storage. Like Airbnb, Filecoin lets you rent out storage..
Last October, billionaire founder of Alibaba, Jack Ma, made a controversial speech slamming China’s financial watchdogs. The next day, Alibaba’s 33% owned ANT financial Hong Kong and Shanghai dual listing was cancelled by the Chinese Government. Rumours also circled...
Holon Global Investments recently announced that we had become a selected shareholder in the Avanti Financial Group, Inc (Avanti Bank) through their $US37 million Series A capital raising round. The investment meant that we joined an elite club of...
Technology stocks surged at the start of 2020, with the main US technology barometer (US Nasdaq 100 index) rising 97% in the 12 months following Covid-19’s original lockdowns in mid-2020. Through late February and March however, most tech stocks...
Six D thinking: The two sectors set to deliver investors explosive ‘exponential’ growth Most investors have a natural bias to investing in their local market and in what they understand. It is not easy to find the time
I started my investment career a month before the tech wreck in April 2000. If there was one major lesson I learned over the last twenty years, it’s that I should have been more focused on the fundamental changes...
The regional Queensland centre of Rockhampton is not generally a place you associate with Australian tech innovators, but it is where one of Australia’s leading internet entrepreneurs and experts grew up. Bevan Slattery is far from a household name,...
Our research team bring you their key market insights for the quarter. You can access Q4 -2020 – Holon Market Pulse here.
With the soaring price of Bitcoin investors could be forgiven for being a little anxious about the best way to invest in Bitcoin. After all, private keys, blockchains and decentralisation can be intimidating concepts. This is particularly true at...
There is growing talk that technology stocks are overvalued and vulnerable to a crash in 2021, with the Nasdaq Composite Index up 60% since January 2020 and 110% since the Covid-19 market lows in March 2020. But while some...
I recently made the startling discovery that in just two months, more than 50,328 trackers and ads tried to target me on the internet. They were snooping on my activity and collecting and storing my data on an industrial...
Most investors believe that while inflation remains a risk, it has been relatively benign for some time. Official inflation figures show prices have been rising at a steady clip of around 2% per year. But the reality is much...
Investors would no doubt have seen headlines around Christmas about the remarkable surge of Bitcoin. The digital currency is now trading at $33,472, after rising 156% in just three months. The recent Bitcoin move is remarkable, and it is...
Many investors might not know that Rod Drury started cloud accounting software giant Xero in an Auckland apartment. Despite those humble origins, the company has surged to 2.45 million subscribers for its cloud products around the world and a...
Even though we had a significant lead time in understanding their value propositions, many Australian investors still underestimated the global investment opportunity of companies such as Afterpay and Xero. But it’s not just Australians who underestimate the world outside...
There is no doubt that 2020 was one of the most remarkable years of most investors’ lives. The Covid-19 pandemic has changed the world. Global economies are struggling and policy makers are spending and printing unprecedented sums of money...
Most investors are no doubt aware of the impact of Web 1.0 (the birth of the internet delivering things like websites) and Web 2.0 – which gave us the likes of blogs and social media – have had on...
Our research team bring you their key market insights for the quarter. You can access Q3 -2020 – Holon Market Pulse here.
We believe that we’re seeing the emergence of a new parallel global financial system being built from the ground up, underpinned by market-based money. ‘Bitcoin’ represents a technological breakthrough and paradigm shift in monetary policy. Is Bitcoin the future...
Jonathan caught up with Tim Lea, Founder & CEO of Fractonium. Fractonium is developing a funding platform that turns traditional Corporate Funding on its head. By tokenising the fractional ownership of assets, revenue flows and debt, we enable organisations...
Who should read this? You have to put your money somewhere – how do financial advisors providing asset allocation advice for their clients and self-directed investors navigate the road ahead? We evaluate the success of the 60/40 asset allocation...
There are few economic assessments that impact our lives more than the subtle methodology changes used to calculate inflation through the Consumer Price Index. Consumer Price Index (CPI) heavily influences the level where central banks, such as the US...
The role of Gold in history Gold’s allure led it to become a symbol of immortality and power across ancient cultures since 5,000 BC. Gold’s rarity and aesthetic qualities made it an ideal material for ruling classes to demonstrate...
The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed a global slowdown never before experienced. As countries went into lockdown during 2020, governments and central banks were forced to implement unprecedented economic support programs, likely to cost US$50T, in order to cushion the...
Today The Mega Cap 7 The hard infrastructure assets required to power the global digital economy are mostly owned and operated by 7 global technology companies: Alibaba Amazon Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Tencent They have a market capitalisation of...
Jonathan caught up with Tonya Ehlmann, Director of Strategy and AI/ML for Object Computing Inc. (OCI). OCI are the innovators, shaping the future of how AI & Ml is used in global fortune 500 companies, including the financial sector. Their...
Jonathan caught up with Robert Viglione, Co-founder and President of Horizen and CEO at Horizen Labs. Horizen are the innovators, shaping the future of blockchain technology and unlocking its power for real-world use cases. Their conversation covered...
Jonathan caught up with Steve Kokinos, CEO at Algorand. Algorand are the innovators shaping the future of finance. Their conversation covered the Trilemma of blockchain, Atomic Transfers, Smart Contracts in Layer-1 and the following questions were discussed: ...
Jonathan caught up with Graeme Moore, Head of Tokenization at Polymath for Episode 1 of The Innovators. Polymath are the innovators shaping the future of security tokens. Their conversation covered STO innovation, and the following questions were discussed:...
The accelerated evolution of connectivity, most notably the rise of the internet and smartphones, and recent advances in digital infrastructure, such as cloud computing and distributed ledger technology, has radically shifted business models. Organisations can now deliver products and...
Investing is our thing, we’re great at it – and investing in our communities is just as important to us (and it’s a privilege too!). It’s time to give back, and where better than community and sporting clubs. These...
Transformative innovation is not just ‘new ways of doing things’, but that it significantly changes the nature of ‘doing things’ themselves. There is no more profound example than the evolution of connectivity, most notably the rise of the internet...
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