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- 0:00Speaker 1: Welcome back to the Weekend Collective. I'm Tim Beveridge, and
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- 0:17Speaker 1: it is time for smart Money and my guest, well
- 0:20Speaker 1: he needs no introduction, really, Martin Ores. How you doing?
- 0:24Speaker 2: Yeah, Tim, very well?
- 0:25Speaker 1: Thinked if you got a business card, that's one who
- 0:28Speaker 1: has a business card. But you could probably just write
- 0:30Speaker 1: financial guru, can't you.
- 0:31Speaker 2: I don't have.
- 0:32Speaker 3: A big business card, and if I had one, what
- 0:35Speaker 3: would probably financial writer and financial speaker.
- 0:39Speaker 1: Oh well, that's not as much fun as guru. I
- 0:42Speaker 1: like guru.
- 0:43Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, I like as well.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Maybe it's promising too much. It's a little bit SI.
- 0:48Speaker 2: Yeah, it could be.
- 0:49Speaker 1: Reminded of how many books have you written?
- 0:51Speaker 2: I've written twenty three books.
- 0:53Speaker 3: I've actually written twenty four because I handed the manuscript
- 0:57Speaker 3: of my twenty fourth book into the publishers a couple
- 1:01Speaker 3: of weeks ago and doing their thing on it. At
- 1:03Speaker 3: the moment it won't be out till next year or so,
- 1:07Speaker 3: but that'll been number twenty four.
- 1:10Speaker 1: What how I can look. I can imagine someone going,
- 1:14Speaker 1: I've got a book in me and I'm going to
- 1:15Speaker 1: start writing it. And you've done twenty three. And now,
- 1:18Speaker 1: as you say, twenty four is not out yet, but
- 1:20Speaker 1: you've written it. Yeah, what motivated number twenty four?
- 1:25Speaker 3: About five years ago I had a real old disruption
- 1:29Speaker 3: of my life and I left Queenstown, where i'd lived
- 1:31Speaker 3: for twenty odd years, and moved to christ Church, which
- 1:34Speaker 3: is where I live now. And you know, whenever you
- 1:36Speaker 3: have a big disruption in your life, you meant to
- 1:38Speaker 3: go through your finances, aspect by aspect, all the different things.
- 1:42Speaker 3: And I did that and I made a new well.
- 1:45Speaker 3: I wound up the family trust that I've had. I
- 1:50Speaker 3: got my investments managed by someone else. And it was
- 1:54Speaker 3: such an interesting process which happened over two or three years,
- 1:58Speaker 3: that I thought I would just be right up. So
- 2:00Speaker 3: the book is partly biographical, but it's partly also advice.
- 2:04Speaker 3: Here are the things that I did, and here are
- 2:07Speaker 3: the thing Here's how it worked out warts and all. Wow,
- 2:13Speaker 3: made a few mistakes, and yeah, and doing that well
- 2:16Speaker 3: they weren't really mistakes. One of the things I did
- 2:19Speaker 3: was I canceled my health insurance to self insure, and
- 2:26Speaker 3: I put aside, you know, quite a sizable sum of money.
- 2:29Speaker 3: And the idea was that I would pay what had
- 2:31Speaker 3: used to be the equivalent of the premiums into a.
- 2:36Speaker 1: Get ahead of it yep.
- 2:38Speaker 3: And within three months of doing this, I was under
- 2:42Speaker 3: the knife, having having an operation, and then a month
- 2:45Speaker 3: after that I had another operation.
- 2:47Speaker 1: Did you spend it all?
- 2:50Speaker 2: No? No, I haven't spent.
- 2:52Speaker 3: I've still still got a bit of back up there,
- 2:54Speaker 3: and I can afford to self insure. I mean, it
- 2:57Speaker 3: would be a disaster for somebody who hadn't put the
- 3:01Speaker 3: money aside and such like. And you know, I'm of
- 3:04Speaker 3: an age retirement age where I see a lot of
- 3:07Speaker 3: people who ask questions about health insurance because getting as
- 3:11Speaker 3: you get older, it gets really really expensive.
- 3:14Speaker 1: That is a problem. Isn't it actually funny? As you
- 3:16Speaker 1: were talking about that and saving it, I have you
- 3:18Speaker 1: still got it? And I was thinking of that black
- 3:19Speaker 1: added quote when somebody stolen some money from Baldrick and
- 3:22Speaker 1: he goes, what about that tuppence? It was under my
- 3:24Speaker 1: pillow and he goes, seen it, pinched it, spent it.
- 3:27Speaker 1: I was wondering, if you're about to deliver that line
- 3:30Speaker 1: on your health insurance.
- 3:31Speaker 3: No, no, no, there's still some money there so and
- 3:35Speaker 3: you know, health insurance, you know it's important to some people,
- 3:39Speaker 3: but it's mostly about Q jumping. I've had a bit
- 3:43Speaker 3: of experience now in both the public and the private system,
- 3:47Speaker 3: and the public system is slow to get into it.
- 3:50Speaker 1: But it's fantastic when you're in.
- 3:51Speaker 3: But it's fantastic once you're in there.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Way, I didn't realize that, Pete. The really good surgeons
- 3:56Speaker 1: I've learnt this probably in the last few years, but
- 3:58Speaker 1: the really good surgeons have a public They work in public.
- 4:00Speaker 1: It was to be the public, you have to be
- 4:02Speaker 1: the best. And so if you're looking for a private surgeon,
- 4:05Speaker 1: look for one who's also in the public system. And
- 4:09Speaker 1: you're you're away. But it's Q jumping. Yes, you're right,
- 4:12Speaker 1: But if you've got a dodgy knee, then you know.
- 4:14Speaker 2: Then you want it done. Yeah, yep.
- 4:17Speaker 1: Hey, Actually you have distracted me with that talk about
- 4:20Speaker 1: health insurance.
- 4:20Speaker 2: Becau.
- 4:20Speaker 1: We're going to talk about small businesses and we will
- 4:22Speaker 1: do it. But I just wanted to ask when you
- 4:25Speaker 1: are paying for it yourself, do you have do you
- 4:29Speaker 1: try and haggle? You know, it's like when they say
- 4:32Speaker 1: you've got to go into this private hospital and they
- 4:34Speaker 1: say it's going to be so much a night, and
- 4:35Speaker 1: you're like, oh, come on, give me a break. I'll
- 4:38Speaker 1: give you such and such.
- 4:40Speaker 3: I don't I don't think there's any haggle room in
- 4:43Speaker 3: there whatever. I'd love to say, yeah, I got fifteen
- 4:48Speaker 3: percent off, but they just presented me with the price
- 4:53Speaker 3: that here's the surgeon's fee, here's the anethethus fee, here's
- 4:56Speaker 3: the hospital fee, here's the theater fee. That's They never
- 5:01Speaker 3: said take it. They never said take it or leave it.
- 5:03Speaker 1: But was it a fun Did you look at it
- 5:05Speaker 1: and go, yeah, it's.
- 5:07Speaker 3: Well they warned me it was it. But it's a
- 5:09Speaker 3: fair bit of money, you know. One well, they were
- 5:12Speaker 3: both about fourteen thousand dollars each, so you know I
- 5:16Speaker 3: took a suit thousand dollars.
- 5:18Speaker 1: That sounds like a hip and a knee.
- 5:20Speaker 2: No, No, it wasn't.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Ni okay, no, no's going on. Don't don't tell us,
- 5:25Speaker 1: we don't. I'm not going to ask. I'm not going
- 5:27Speaker 1: to you know, we're not going to push it any further. Hey,
- 5:30Speaker 1: I wanted to have a chat about stuffening about small businesses.
- 5:35Speaker 1: And when I say small businesses, I mean I don't
- 5:37Speaker 1: know how we define a small business. There is a
- 5:39Speaker 1: particular definition, isn't it? In fact for some people. If
- 5:42Speaker 1: you some small businesses, if you described it to the
- 5:45Speaker 1: average punter, there'd be like that sounds like a pretty
- 5:47Speaker 1: big deal to me. And there have been a lot
- 5:49Speaker 1: of headlines around recently about the number of businesses that
- 5:52Speaker 1: are folding. We've seen the very public ones, of course,
- 5:56Speaker 1: when people just notice that their favorite restaurant is no
- 5:58Speaker 1: longer there. We've seen some, you know, some fairly well
- 6:01Speaker 1: known establishments that have suddenly disappeared. But of course there
- 6:06Speaker 1: will be people who set up small businesses at times
- 6:09Speaker 1: like this, because if you've got a good idea, then
- 6:11Speaker 1: you don't want to wait around, have you? Are there
- 6:15Speaker 1: some basics when it comes to small businesses on what
- 6:19Speaker 1: you can absolutely get right and what you can absolutely
- 6:24Speaker 1: get wrong. And sometimes I don't know if it's just
- 6:27Speaker 1: a question of luck either, because I've spoken to small
- 6:30Speaker 1: people who just about every small business person I've ever
- 6:33Speaker 1: spoken to will say, in fact, I've even done a
- 6:36Speaker 1: couple of things myself where I've looked back and gone, well,
- 6:38Speaker 1: thank goodness X didn't happen because I wouldn't have been
- 6:42Speaker 1: ready for it. And a lot of them will say, oh,
- 6:45Speaker 1: my goodness, if I'd known, if I had known how
- 6:49Speaker 1: hard it was, I never would have even done it,
- 6:51Speaker 1: And yet here I am a success. So can we
- 6:54Speaker 1: distill that into some basic dos and don'ts for small business?
- 6:58Speaker 3: Big Core Martin, Yeah, yeah, it is actually, And you're
- 7:01Speaker 3: right about the definition of a small business. There are definitions.
- 7:05Speaker 3: I think in New Zealand it's under maybe fifty staff
- 7:09Speaker 3: something something like that.
- 7:10Speaker 1: If you have forty staff, that's massive.
- 7:14Speaker 2: And I may I may have that wrong.
- 7:15Speaker 3: It might be twenty, but it's something like that, whereas
- 7:18Speaker 3: in the US it's it's five hundred and so forth.
- 7:22Speaker 3: But you know, a lot of them to pretty marginal
- 7:25Speaker 3: sort of operations, and a lot of them, I would argue,
- 7:29Speaker 3: aren't really businesses at all. Paid actually was paid hobbies. Yeah,
- 7:34Speaker 3: and that's one of the don'ts. You know, it's not
- 7:37Speaker 3: necessarily a thing that you've got to love, but it's
- 7:40Speaker 3: largely self employment, you know, So if you imagine a
- 7:43Speaker 3: trade or myself. I was self employed. I wasn't really
- 7:47Speaker 3: I didn't have a business. You know, I could have
- 7:51Speaker 3: had a business and I could have built up a
- 7:52Speaker 3: financial advisory practice with fifty staff and so on, but
- 7:58Speaker 3: I quite deliberately, consciously decided not to because I want
- 8:02Speaker 3: a better lifestyle than that. I'd argue a lot of
- 8:06Speaker 3: a lot of small business owners don't have great lifestyle.
- 8:10Speaker 3: That is, you know, they not only have to carry
- 8:13Speaker 3: on with their trades, but they've also got a market
- 8:16Speaker 3: that they've got to give quotes, they've got to do
- 8:18Speaker 3: the books, they've got to do all those other other aspects,
- 8:21Speaker 3: and they actually find they have very little life at all.
- 8:25Speaker 3: I think the number one bit of advice I would
- 8:27Speaker 3: give to people is to start with the end in mind,
- 8:31Speaker 3: so to start thinking about how is this going to
- 8:34Speaker 3: play out? And ideally you want to be able to
- 8:38Speaker 3: sell your business for preferably serious money. So you build something,
- 8:43Speaker 3: you take all the risk, you live, eat and breathe
- 8:46Speaker 3: your small but business and most small business people do.
- 8:50Speaker 3: You want a really good payoff at it. So you've
- 8:53Speaker 3: got to think about who's going to buy this business,
- 8:57Speaker 3: and what are these people who are going to buy
- 8:59Speaker 3: the business. What are they going to be looking for?
- 9:02Speaker 3: And the answer to that, in almost all cases is
- 9:05Speaker 3: that they will seamlessly keep the profit going. That is,
- 9:10Speaker 3: from day one when you're the owner. Today too, when
- 9:14Speaker 3: the other person is the owner, the profits keep flowing.
- 9:17Speaker 3: And that means that you don't have your name on
- 9:20Speaker 3: the door. You're not you know, the business is not
- 9:22Speaker 3: dependent on you. You don't have your name online, so
- 9:27Speaker 3: that you're the number one person in whatever the field is.
- 9:31Speaker 3: The other thing I'd say is that hospo is something
- 9:34Speaker 3: that a lot of people go into. Somebody described that
- 9:38Speaker 3: about thirty years to me, they have this little vision
- 9:41Speaker 3: of themselves standing around the bar at lunch time with
- 9:44Speaker 3: a five ounce glass of beer. This is when we
- 9:46Speaker 3: had five ounce glasses of beer. And they see themselves
- 9:50Speaker 3: as being my host and that sort of thing. Most
- 9:53Speaker 3: hospo is bloody hard work, actually, And it's not only hard.
- 10:00Speaker 1: You've got all the stuff and that your mind host
- 10:01Speaker 1: and you're going around the table saying hi, and everyone's
- 10:04Speaker 1: going hey, hey, you going Martin, And I'm loving, loving,
- 10:07Speaker 1: loving your chef's work today. And as opposed to.
- 10:11Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a snail in my cello, so so and
- 10:16Speaker 3: so hasn't turned up again. Not very difficult businesses to run,
- 10:20Speaker 3: and I know they're quite high profile and you really
- 10:23Speaker 3: do notice when your local cafe closers. But I suspect
- 10:28Speaker 3: I've never seen numbers on it, but I suspect that
- 10:32Speaker 3: more hospital hospitality businesses cease to be helped we polite
- 10:39Speaker 3: and then most other business sites.
- 10:42Speaker 1: Yeah, it's interesting that you you would an unsurprising I
- 10:47Speaker 1: guess that you'd say you have a think about the
- 10:49Speaker 1: endgame where do you want to end up? Because there
- 10:51Speaker 1: be many people who end up. Maybe I should also
- 10:54Speaker 1: include self employed, but that's usually just only responsible to yourself.
- 10:57Speaker 1: But let's say small business that a lot of peoples
- 10:59Speaker 1: might have would simply start from I want to be
- 11:03Speaker 1: my own boss and nothing more. That would be very common,
- 11:07Speaker 1: I managed, wouldn't it.
- 11:08Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's very common, and yes you might be
- 11:13Speaker 3: your own boss. But the staff not turning up are also,
- 11:17Speaker 3: in a funny sort of way, you're your boss as well.
- 11:20Speaker 3: They certainly motivate you to do things. It's it's a
- 11:25Speaker 3: tough road to hoe.
- 11:26Speaker 2: I love you know.
- 11:27Speaker 3: I mean, there used to be lots of figures around
- 11:31Speaker 3: about in seventy percent of small businesses failing within the
- 11:34Speaker 3: first five years, and I've got I don't know whether
- 11:37Speaker 3: that right or not.
- 11:37Speaker 1: There are those spectacular figures though there that there's so
- 11:40Speaker 1: many defail aren't they. I don't know what the stats
- 11:42Speaker 1: are either. I could probably look up a meme somewhere
- 11:44Speaker 1: there'll be.
- 11:46Speaker 3: I'm not sure I trust them all that much. I
- 11:49Speaker 3: wouldn't know where they where they where they come from.
- 11:51Speaker 3: But it's for a lot of people. It is very
- 11:55Speaker 3: hard work. It's sixty hours a week, it's seventy hours
- 11:58Speaker 3: a week. Being your own boss often comes at a price.
- 12:01Speaker 3: And the other thing tim is there if you go
- 12:06Speaker 3: into business and you put capital into that business, whether
- 12:09Speaker 3: whether it's a relatively small amount because you know it's
- 12:11Speaker 3: for tools and that sort of thing, or whether it's
- 12:13Speaker 3: a big amount and you take on a lease for
- 12:15Speaker 3: the hospitality business and so forth, you need to get
- 12:19Speaker 3: a return on both your time and your capital. Yeah,
- 12:25Speaker 3: and a lot of a lot of small businesses don't
- 12:28Speaker 3: get a return on either.
- 12:29Speaker 2: Actually they're not often terribly profitable.
- 12:33Speaker 1: Well, that's the other thing. If you speak to small
- 12:35Speaker 1: business owners, they might tell you, and that's what often
- 12:38Speaker 1: comes up when they're when the government's sticking another responsibility
- 12:42Speaker 1: on employers, and how employers will say, well, listen, everyone
- 12:45Speaker 1: thinks I'm living on the pig's back, but I haven't
- 12:47Speaker 1: paid myself a wage for eighteen months. I think we
- 12:50Speaker 1: heard a lot of that obviously through COVID.
- 12:52Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I've been pretty negative to the other
- 12:58Speaker 3: side of it. You know, there are there are joyous
- 13:02Speaker 3: examples of people A making a lot of money and
- 13:06Speaker 3: B having a very very good lifestyle.
- 13:08Speaker 1: So what, okay, is there a simple reason why why
- 13:13Speaker 1: so many fail? And and what's the difference between the
- 13:17Speaker 1: ones that become a roaring success? Is it just that
- 13:19Speaker 1: they've had a great idea.
- 13:21Speaker 2: I think there's a lot about that.
- 13:22Speaker 3: I think that, you know, it's it's what they go into,
- 13:26Speaker 3: it's how they manage it, it's how they managed to
- 13:29Speaker 3: staff it, it's how they manage the staff that they have,
- 13:32Speaker 3: it's how they market it. You know, I look around
- 13:35Speaker 3: the place and I do see a lot of very
- 13:37Speaker 3: successful small small businesses. And then of course you know Apple,
- 13:42Speaker 3: the computer people. You know Steve Jobs, they started as
- 13:45Speaker 3: a micro business as the tutor pack up quite now
- 13:49Speaker 3: Garret trade Me started in Sam Morgan's garage. So all
- 13:55Speaker 3: these people have an idea and we only know it's
- 13:59Speaker 3: a good eye there with the passing of time, is
- 14:02Speaker 3: one of them.
- 14:03Speaker 1: Is one of the mistakes that you might make in
- 14:05Speaker 1: a small business is if you've started it with your
- 14:10Speaker 1: own ambition in mind, is a stubbornness to share the
- 14:16Speaker 1: to share it around. So if if you've got an
- 14:17Speaker 1: idea for a business, you might not, for instance, have
- 14:21Speaker 1: all the money or the capital you need, but then
- 14:22Speaker 1: it's like, my idea, why should I give it to
- 14:24Speaker 1: someone who's simply going to stump up with a bit
- 14:26Speaker 1: of money to make it a bit easier for me?
- 14:28Speaker 1: Is one of is that one of the mistakes small
- 14:29Speaker 1: businesses make that they go in a bit undercooked on
- 14:32Speaker 1: the financial side, but simply because they're unwilling to share
- 14:36Speaker 1: in their genius.
- 14:38Speaker 3: Yes, of course, taking on a partner and a business
- 14:41Speaker 3: is like a second marriage to triumph of hope over experience.
- 14:46Speaker 3: So it's you know, that doesn't always work out. But
- 14:49Speaker 3: I always say to people that I think that you're
- 14:53Speaker 3: better to have fifty percent or sixty percent of a thriving,
- 14:58Speaker 3: large business than a hunt percent of something which is
- 15:01Speaker 3: struggling and a lack of capital. You know, after people
- 15:05Speaker 3: have mortgage to the house to put money in and
- 15:09Speaker 3: managed to beg borrow of steel, bits of other other
- 15:13Speaker 3: money from finance companies and things like that. After that,
- 15:16Speaker 3: the capital drives up, and where do you get the
- 15:18Speaker 3: expansion from. I think you've got to bring staff and
- 15:22Speaker 3: to turn a small business into a medium size. To
- 15:25Speaker 3: turn a medium size into a large one, you really
- 15:28Speaker 3: do need capital, and that means bringing other people on.
- 15:32Speaker 1: If somebody was to I mean, I don't know how
- 15:34Speaker 1: much how much time you would spend advising people in
- 15:37Speaker 1: small business and things, because that's a specific area of expertise,
- 15:39Speaker 1: isn't it. But what would if you had a family member,
- 15:43Speaker 1: for instance, he said, look, I've got a great idea.
- 15:45Speaker 1: This is what I want to do. I want to
- 15:46Speaker 1: enter into business. Would there be a small checklist you'd
- 15:49Speaker 1: run through them, or a list of absolute musts before
- 15:54Speaker 1: they even sort of take step one? Well, step one.
- 15:57Speaker 4: St be talking to you, I guess not, or somebody
- 16:01Speaker 4: somebody like me and I do see I have seen
- 16:04Speaker 4: over the years an awful lot of small business owners.
- 16:08Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't really have a checklist. I think you'd
- 16:11Speaker 3: have to work through they all tend to be quite different.
- 16:15Speaker 3: But I would keep coming back to that. Start with
- 16:19Speaker 3: the end in mind, who's going to buy your business,
- 16:21Speaker 3: what are they going to look like, what are are they.
- 16:23Speaker 2: Going to look for? And what are you going to
- 16:26Speaker 2: build where.
- 16:27Speaker 3: You can sell your business for two million dollars and
- 16:30Speaker 3: fifteen years time.
- 16:31Speaker 1: That sounds nice, isn't it. Look we'd like to hear
- 16:35Speaker 1: from you as well, because it's been well, it's just
- 16:37Speaker 1: from my own point view, I've always been curious about
- 16:39Speaker 1: setting out small businesses and what it takes because I
- 16:42Speaker 1: think a lot of the time when it comes to
- 16:45Speaker 1: discussions around politics and things, people like to have a
- 16:48Speaker 1: crack at business owners without having an inkling on it,
- 16:52Speaker 1: absolutely on how incredibly difficult and challenging it is. So
- 16:55Speaker 1: if you're one of those small business owners that has
- 16:58Speaker 1: either made a great fist of your business and you're
- 17:00Speaker 1: doing very well, where did you go right? But also
- 17:03Speaker 1: if you feel like sharing experience on something where you
- 17:07Speaker 1: went wrong, because many successful business owners will probably say, look,
- 17:11Speaker 1: you know, I might be successful now, but about a
- 17:12Speaker 1: few failings, it give us a court. We'd love to
- 17:15Speaker 1: hear your experience with Martin Hawes this is smart money
- 17:18Speaker 1: and news talk, said B. It's twenty four The number
- 17:20Speaker 1: is O eight hundred and eighty ten eighty of course
- 17:21Speaker 1: in text on nine two nine two. But we'd love
- 17:24Speaker 1: love your input. It's twenty four past five. Yes, and
- 17:28Speaker 1: we're with Martin Hawes. This is smart money talking about
- 17:31Speaker 1: the dos and don'ts of setting up a small business,
- 17:33Speaker 1: but of a bandwidthm with Martin. But joining us is
- 17:36Speaker 1: IV good day. A bit of a delay on the
- 17:41Speaker 1: line there either.
- 17:42Speaker 5: Hello, yeah, I'll just take you.
- 17:44Speaker 6: I'll I'll just take your speaker, mm hmm. Okay, right right,
- 17:53Speaker 6: you're on phone.
- 17:55Speaker 1: Good.
- 17:56Speaker 6: Yeah. Yeah, So you're just you're just mentioning that if
- 18:01Speaker 6: you started a small business and not very successful, you'd
- 18:05Speaker 6: like to hear from us.
- 18:06Speaker 1: Yeah, sure, is that you?
- 18:09Speaker 6: Yes, yes, yes. I started a lolly importing company with
- 18:18Speaker 6: the five thousand dollars from a second man vati bike
- 18:21Speaker 6: in nineteen eighty eight and sold it to my brother
- 18:27Speaker 6: he's a years older than million two thousand and five
- 18:31Speaker 6: for you know, into that part of the deal. It
- 18:34Speaker 6: had a million dollars in the bank.
- 18:36Speaker 1: Oh really, and where do you consider you went? Right?
- 18:44Speaker 6: Well?
- 18:45Speaker 1: Hiring staff, hiring staff.
- 18:50Speaker 6: Yeah, yeah, yeah, lots and lots of stuff.
- 18:54Speaker 1: Yeah, what did you have to hire a lot because
- 18:56Speaker 1: you're said to fire a lot? What did you distill
- 18:59Speaker 1: your if you a couple of.
- 19:03Speaker 6: I think they only fired two people. Yeah, I had
- 19:08Speaker 6: about I had about twenty workers at one stage and
- 19:11Speaker 6: then talking on a fifty fifty partner and he sort
- 19:18Speaker 6: of trimmed it back to ten but not fir England.
- 19:23Speaker 6: Is that just saying we don't need this and that,
- 19:27Speaker 6: but then actually fired not two people.
- 19:29Speaker 1: Yeah, Hey, there's a bit of a delay on the
- 19:33Speaker 1: line either. Unfortunately, I don't think we can because we're
- 19:36Speaker 1: about five seconds behind each other. So it's going to
- 19:38Speaker 1: be a bit of a different bit of a difficult conversation,
- 19:40Speaker 1: which is a shame. But I guess, you know, hiring
- 19:42Speaker 1: the right stuff, as you say, Martinet's the bleeding obvious,
- 19:45Speaker 1: isn't it. You know, if you have bad stuff, you're screwed, and.
- 19:48Speaker 3: It's one of the hardest things as well, you know,
- 19:51Speaker 3: and management by yelling doesn't work anymore, you probably won't.
- 19:57Speaker 3: It was suitainly a thing in the past. I think
- 20:01Speaker 3: there's too probably fundamental barriers for a lot of small
- 20:06Speaker 3: businesses want to be staff the other would be marketing, marketing,
- 20:10Speaker 3: marketing slash sales. I guess that people often have an expertise,
- 20:15Speaker 3: and it may be an expertise and plumbing or or
- 20:18Speaker 3: you know, some sort of trade or something like that.
- 20:21Speaker 3: What they don't necessarily have an expertise and it's hard
- 20:25Speaker 3: to buy and is marketing slash sales and staff.
- 20:30Speaker 1: Yeah, actually, did you see there was There was a
- 20:32Speaker 1: case that not particularly any particular reason, but was there's
- 20:36Speaker 1: a report in the herald about a company in Duned
- 20:39Speaker 1: and that's gone. Well, they're no longer a small business.
- 20:41Speaker 1: They're quite big. Who these guys decided they could design
- 20:44Speaker 1: their own coffee roaster and they were one of them
- 20:47Speaker 1: was software sort of expert. I can't remember the details.
- 20:51Speaker 1: But now that they've gone global, they've made manufacturing thousands
- 20:55Speaker 1: of coffee machines and selling them around the world.
- 20:58Speaker 3: I did see something like that. It's never ceases to
- 21:02Speaker 3: amaze me. The little niches, like you know, somebody important lollies,
- 21:07Speaker 3: no doubt, bagging them up into different bags and putting
- 21:09Speaker 3: a different label on them or whatever, and being able
- 21:12Speaker 3: to make good money out of that. Similarly, with coffee roasting,
- 21:16Speaker 3: you would have thought that that was a market that
- 21:18Speaker 3: was pretty well penetrated and catered for, and then somebody
- 21:24Speaker 3: makes a coffee roaster.
- 21:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I just I guess, And that was actually one
- 21:28Speaker 1: of the story that made me ask you the question
- 21:31Speaker 1: around getting capital investment on board and getting other people
- 21:35Speaker 1: in stakeholders. And I think that would be one of
- 21:37Speaker 1: the mistakes that people make when they're getting for successes
- 21:39Speaker 1: to go no thanks, hey, look on that side, because
- 21:42Speaker 1: these guys who made us, I think one of the
- 21:44Speaker 1: guys who was behind it was a software engineer. One
- 21:46Speaker 1: of your interests that we're going to talk about today
- 21:48Speaker 1: as well was tech investments. That's my clumsy segue to
- 21:53Speaker 1: talking about technic is not bad, but I'm interested asking
- 21:56Speaker 1: about this because we did see some dramatic headlines the
- 22:01Speaker 1: amount of money that the share price for Nvidia at
- 22:04Speaker 1: one station generally has gone through the roof, hasn't it yea,
- 22:08Speaker 1: And so that would attract a lot of intention attention.
- 22:11Speaker 1: Are you quite curious about the teach investment market.
- 22:15Speaker 3: I'm heavily weighted to it on my own portfolio. Now
- 22:20Speaker 3: that my own portfolio is not exclusively tech, but it's
- 22:24Speaker 3: it's certainly got a favor deteck at it and it
- 22:26Speaker 3: most definitely has En Video and that's the company that
- 22:30Speaker 3: makes most of the chips.
- 22:32Speaker 2: For right AI.
- 22:33Speaker 1: When did you vida?
- 22:37Speaker 3: I think it's been in the portfolio for three or
- 22:39Speaker 3: four years.
- 22:41Speaker 1: On you Martin, Yeah.
- 22:43Speaker 3: It should have been twenty years ago, because over twenty
- 22:47Speaker 3: twenty year period, in video has returned thirty eight percent
- 22:52Speaker 3: per anum how much so thirty eight? This is on
- 22:55Speaker 3: average over twenty years thirty eight. If you invested and
- 23:00Speaker 3: then for the twenty years ago you put your money
- 23:02Speaker 3: in on listing, you have had thirty eight percent per
- 23:07Speaker 3: random gains. I'll tell you another one, which I think
- 23:10Speaker 3: if anything's even even better is Amazon.
- 23:14Speaker 2: Now.
- 23:14Speaker 3: Amazon listed on the USAir market twenty seven years ago.
- 23:19Speaker 3: And if you'd come to me and you said, oh, look,
- 23:21Speaker 3: you know do you know do you know Amazon? I
- 23:24Speaker 3: would have said, yeah, yeah, yeah, I get a box
- 23:25Speaker 3: of their books most weeks.
- 23:28Speaker 1: And they started off as books, didn't they It.
- 23:31Speaker 3: Was a bookseller, yeah, basically, And you know I would
- 23:34Speaker 3: have said, well, you know, they're a bookseller, buy a
- 23:38Speaker 3: few shares, shares if you like. But they expanded into
- 23:43Speaker 3: just about everything known that you can buy and sell
- 23:47Speaker 3: it happens on Amazon now. But also they've gone into
- 23:51Speaker 3: nothing about a decade ago, cloud computing as well, which
- 23:54Speaker 3: is a hugely profitable part of their business. They for
- 24:00Speaker 3: twenty over twenty seven years, they've given a thirty three
- 24:04Speaker 3: percent thirty three point five percent return per animal, So
- 24:10Speaker 3: just an absolutely stunning performance. I know, I know, nothing
- 24:14Speaker 3: nothing like that for such a long long period of time.
- 24:18Speaker 3: But there's lots of others as well. You know, Apple
- 24:21Speaker 3: twenty one percent over thirty four years, Google twenty three
- 24:24Speaker 3: percent over twenty years. You know, the tech is not
- 24:28Speaker 3: just beginning to contact. Tech has been around probably since
- 24:31Speaker 3: the Enlightenment. That actually, but the curve is ever steepening,
- 24:35Speaker 3: and there is so much disruption now and tech is
- 24:40Speaker 3: becoming so front of mind that the returns are just
- 24:46Speaker 3: getting astonishing, and that you know, it's not going to
- 24:48Speaker 3: go away, it's going to people can keep them.
- 24:51Speaker 1: Somebody's just messaged me now saying on vested in Tesla
- 24:53Speaker 1: in twenty eighteen and it paid for most of my
- 24:56Speaker 1: house deposit in four years.
- 24:58Speaker 2: Yes, yes, And I think.
- 24:59Speaker 1: The the problem is there's there's a problem with with
- 25:02Speaker 1: these stories though, is that it leads to this mentality
- 25:05Speaker 1: that you can just pick the right spot stock you've
- 25:08Speaker 1: got it made. So if you bought Amazon shares in
- 25:11Speaker 1: twenty in two thousand, you could have bought them for
- 25:14Speaker 1: ten cents, you know, or twelve cents, and even in
- 25:17Speaker 1: two thousand and five, I can see you could have
- 25:20Speaker 1: well two dollars right, and now they're worth what a
- 25:24Speaker 1: couple of hundred bucks and hundred and seventy dollars seventy yeah, yeah,
- 25:29Speaker 1: so yeah, not a bad not a bad return if
- 25:32Speaker 1: you get on the ground level. But how many people
- 25:34Speaker 1: really spot what? How do you spot the next mover? No?
- 25:38Speaker 3: Nobody and tim you've got in front of me. Because
- 25:40Speaker 3: that was one of the things that was going to
- 25:41Speaker 3: make that I think was John Bogle said, don't go
- 25:44Speaker 3: looking for a needle in a haystack. You're not going
- 25:48Speaker 3: to find the one company if you if you're really
- 25:51Speaker 3: interested in AI, for example, as an investor, you can't
- 25:55Speaker 3: just sit back and say, so, who's the leader in
- 25:57Speaker 3: IAI Well it's Microsoft, okay, so I'll put all money
- 26:00Speaker 3: and Microsoft it's probably not going to work because Google
- 26:03Speaker 3: could leap for them tomorrow. Instead, I think you've got
- 26:06Speaker 3: to think about, well, you say, who are the producers
- 26:09Speaker 3: of AI, and that's like some Microsoft from Google and
- 26:13Speaker 3: a whole host of others. Who's enabling it in Vida AMD,
- 26:19Speaker 3: various other companies, And who are the users? And that's
- 26:23Speaker 3: like Amazon and the banks and lots and lots of
- 26:26Speaker 3: different different businesses. And then you've got to you probably
- 26:30Speaker 3: own thirty odd companies to get your exposure properly to AI.
- 26:35Speaker 3: So you're not just going to pick one on what.
- 26:39Speaker 1: Makes tech so good? I mean is it a sector
- 26:42Speaker 1: that and are there vulnerabilities that if you look to
- 26:45Speaker 1: the future, Because some people do like to specialize just
- 26:47Speaker 1: in a particular investment sector, don't they. Yes, I mean
- 26:50Speaker 1: look at New Zealand. I mean the number of people
- 26:52Speaker 1: who put everything into property for instance. But I mean
- 26:54Speaker 1: if you'd stuck all your money into video into tech stocks,
- 26:57Speaker 1: you probably be doing all right. But what are the
- 27:00Speaker 1: risks and how do you sort of how do you
- 27:03Speaker 1: sort the wheat from the chaff when you're putting together
- 27:06Speaker 1: a tech portfolio.
- 27:07Speaker 3: I don't think you put together a tech portfolio. I
- 27:10Speaker 3: think you do it through managed funds. They give you
- 27:14Speaker 3: the exposure generally in that market and are.
- 27:17Speaker 1: So unexciting because I want that two thousand percent gain.
- 27:22Speaker 3: Yeah, so the returns might be only one thousand percent
- 27:26Speaker 3: or five hundred percent or something like that, they will
- 27:28Speaker 3: still be very good. I think that's you're you're going
- 27:32Speaker 3: to look for the needle in the haystack, and if
- 27:34Speaker 3: you find the needle, you'll you'd be absolutely delighted. But
- 27:38Speaker 3: the chances are you're not going to find it. So
- 27:41Speaker 3: I think you're much better to get wide exposure over
- 27:45Speaker 3: thirty companies or even fifty companies or even one hundred
- 27:48Speaker 3: companies who are associated in the in the area investing
- 27:52Speaker 3: in that in that area, it's very Unless you're going
- 27:55Speaker 3: to spend all day every day trying to study this,
- 28:00Speaker 3: you're very unlikely to pick the winner.
- 28:02Speaker 1: Okay, look I want to dig it. We're going to
- 28:04Speaker 1: dig into this a little more. Actually, if you have
- 28:05Speaker 1: any questions on the tech stock industry, because Martin's quite
- 28:08Speaker 1: into it, and so I tend to think, while we've
- 28:10Speaker 1: got the guy who's into it, who knows a little
- 28:12Speaker 1: bit about finance, having written his twenty fourth book. By
- 28:14Speaker 1: the way, have you got a title for it?
- 28:16Speaker 2: No, I haven't.
- 28:18Speaker 3: It's probably going to be entitled something like Retirement Ready,
- 28:22Speaker 3: because one of the things I was really concerned about
- 28:25Speaker 3: was that being of retirement age, that I could quickly
- 28:28Speaker 3: and easily push the button and become retired. If that's
- 28:32Speaker 3: what I wanted.
- 28:33Speaker 1: To be pushing the retirement button. Yeah, that's not a
- 28:37Speaker 1: bit bee you go. You can have that. You can
- 28:39Speaker 1: have that for nothing. We'll be back in just a moment.
- 28:41Speaker 1: It's twenty minutes to sex Newstalks. He'd be welcome back
- 28:47Speaker 1: to Smart Money on the weekend collectivet and Beverage. My guest,
- 28:50Speaker 1: Martin Hawes, author of twenty four twenty three coming on
- 28:52Speaker 1: twenty four books. I was always about to say twenty
- 28:55Speaker 1: five because I was chatting with my producer that I
- 28:57Speaker 1: have an idea for your twenty fifth book, Martin, and
- 28:59Speaker 1: it has Actually it's a corker and we'll talk about
- 29:02Speaker 1: it later. Anyway, let's, by the way, with one bit
- 29:06Speaker 1: of advice on small business, just to text here before
- 29:08Speaker 1: we go to our call a Ross. This is probably
- 29:12Speaker 1: quite good advice here from the small business owner, ses,
- 29:14Speaker 1: we have a small business that we're about to wind up.
- 29:16Speaker 1: In fact, they're seeking some legal advice which we won't
- 29:18Speaker 1: be able to help with. But it says we put
- 29:20Speaker 1: our house under family a family trust to protect it
- 29:23Speaker 1: in case the business failed. Probably not a dumb move,
- 29:27Speaker 1: is it, Martin.
- 29:28Speaker 3: No, A lot of people would do that, and you
- 29:30Speaker 3: know a lot of people would be advised to do
- 29:32Speaker 3: that when they're going into business by their lawyers and accountants.
- 29:36Speaker 1: But Sue's asking, how do we go about unwinding it?
- 29:38Speaker 1: But I think we'll leave legal advice to other people. Yeah, okay,
- 29:42Speaker 1: let's take some calls.
- 29:43Speaker 5: Ross, Hello, Yeah, it mean that just ranked It mean
- 29:49Speaker 5: that you said before that.
- 29:51Speaker 1: We're a bad connection. Oh yeah, you know we had
- 29:56Speaker 1: a bad connection. You're talking about the one we were
- 29:57Speaker 1: talking about.
- 29:58Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. They said that he made God
- 30:02Speaker 5: a deposit from his house from an American cheer market.
- 30:06Speaker 5: That be an awful lot of money because you know,
- 30:11Speaker 5: the shear market, the currency at the moment's only sixty
- 30:15Speaker 5: one dollars. Sixty one dollars through one hundred New Zealand
- 30:17Speaker 5: you got in So any reason I won't put a
- 30:22Speaker 5: lot of money into Echel because yeah, it is quite
- 30:25Speaker 5: a big rest posed to something that's but lower. You
- 30:30Speaker 5: can get more for a better price, you know.
- 30:33Speaker 3: Yeah, But Ross that there, I mean that that person
- 30:37Speaker 3: was just lucky that person speculated that person wasn't. It
- 30:41Speaker 3: was an investing. It was just a very short term
- 30:43Speaker 3: play and he managed to get the timing right. Forget
- 30:47Speaker 3: about whatever about the exchange rate, whatever about anything else.
- 30:51Speaker 3: There was that fear better playing old luck.
- 30:54Speaker 1: And they actually, you know what, she's given me permission
- 30:56Speaker 1: to say this, that it was my producer, Tira. That wasn't.
- 31:00Speaker 1: It wasn't anyone from overseas ross. It was Tyra. Sheve
- 31:02Speaker 1: invested in Tesla, thought she liked the idea and boomfa.
- 31:05Speaker 1: She's brought her first house. But she would acknowledge it
- 31:09Speaker 1: was like I was looking at it. I said, can
- 31:11Speaker 1: I out you now? Can I assert to you Tyrn? She goes, yeah,
- 31:13Speaker 1: all right, and she just said it was She said,
- 31:16Speaker 1: I was seventeen. Look at this. I was seventeen. It
- 31:19Speaker 1: was pure luck and I had no idea what I
- 31:21Speaker 1: was doing. And you know what, good on you.
- 31:25Speaker 3: Yeah, but kids don't try this at home. I would
- 31:30Speaker 3: not be suggesting that somebody puts, you know, all the
- 31:34Speaker 3: money that they've got for the house to pose on
- 31:37Speaker 3: some tech stock or any other stock.
- 31:40Speaker 1: No, I guess at least if you do it when
- 31:42Speaker 1: you're seventeen, you're going to recover. But anyway, so I
- 31:47Speaker 1: hope that was a nod of the head I could
- 31:48Speaker 1: out you, Tyra, because now we've done it on nationwide radio.
- 31:51Speaker 1: I think there's a slight sense of like, I know
- 31:53Speaker 1: I was lucky, but I feel quite smug and good
- 31:57Speaker 1: on you. Anyway, Hey, sorry, let's get onto the tech thing.
- 32:02Speaker 1: What's so the managed funds thing? I guess you know
- 32:06Speaker 1: when you mentioned the way to get into the tech
- 32:08Speaker 1: industry and tech investments is through the managed funds because
- 32:11Speaker 1: they are spending all their life and their time on it.
- 32:15Speaker 1: The only thing that some people will have this sort
- 32:18Speaker 1: of thing. As soon as you have a managed fund,
- 32:20Speaker 1: it always feels like the returns you get are always
- 32:23Speaker 1: a bit muted. But is that the case when an
- 32:26Speaker 1: industry goes gangbusters?
- 32:29Speaker 3: Yes, it will be because they are owning not only
- 32:33Speaker 3: the one as, they're owning the losers. And you know,
- 32:35Speaker 3: diversification comes with it takes the volatility out of it.
- 32:39Speaker 3: And tech stops are volatile. You know, I ought to
- 32:44Speaker 3: make that warning right, You know, they are very volatile.
- 32:47Speaker 3: They're ups and downs. You ask before what the risks
- 32:49Speaker 3: of this is? It isn't the tech industries will all
- 32:52Speaker 3: just go away or stop doing whatever it is that doing.
- 32:56Speaker 3: It's that the sheares will be volatile, and if you
- 32:59Speaker 3: end up rattled out of the market in a big downturn,
- 33:03Speaker 3: then you no longer have your money in that when
- 33:07Speaker 3: the upturn comes.
- 33:09Speaker 2: And and TI.
- 33:10Speaker 3: The other thing to say is that when we're talking
- 33:12Speaker 3: about tech, it's not just AI, and it's not just
- 33:15Speaker 3: robotics or automation, or it's gene therapies. It's blockchain, it's
- 33:22Speaker 3: battery store, and it's clean tech. There's a whole bunch
- 33:25Speaker 3: of different of different technologies that you can invest in.
- 33:31Speaker 1: So you can choose. You can choose, like, if you
- 33:33Speaker 1: like the certain area of technology and an area of
- 33:36Speaker 1: science which you think is really rocking and rolling, you
- 33:38Speaker 1: can look for a fund that specializes in that part
- 33:41Speaker 1: of that industry, can.
- 33:42Speaker 2: You, Yes, you can.
- 33:44Speaker 3: So you can buy a managed fund, for example, that
- 33:48Speaker 3: invests only in medical devices. And as somebody who's had
- 33:51Speaker 3: two operations in the last week, while medical devices is
- 33:54Speaker 3: something close to my heart, but yeah, literally, but you know,
- 33:59Speaker 3: there are you know, lots and lots of medical devices
- 34:04Speaker 3: that are being invented, some come to market and they
- 34:07Speaker 3: don't they don't work properly, or they don't sell properly.
- 34:10Speaker 3: Others will be incredibly successful, and if somebody owns the
- 34:14Speaker 3: patent for that, they make a large amount of money.
- 34:17Speaker 1: Do most large I mean the most credible investment fund
- 34:21Speaker 1: managers will they have that ability to Will they have
- 34:25Speaker 1: a fairly broad portfolio where you can go, Look, I'm
- 34:28Speaker 1: interested in tech, but I really am interested in medical devices,
- 34:32Speaker 1: and that they should have something for you.
- 34:35Speaker 3: Yes, you know there well, a lot of fund managers
- 34:37Speaker 3: or a lot of financial advisory houses will have, you know,
- 34:42Speaker 3: the ability to point those out. The other thing to
- 34:44Speaker 3: say is that most people who are listening to this
- 34:49Speaker 3: will have keevy save accounts and keep we save. You know,
- 34:52Speaker 3: most KEYV saver providers now will have exposures to technology,
- 34:58Speaker 3: possibly quite big ones, some more, some more than others.
- 35:02Speaker 3: I personally, well, with my own portfolio, it's reasonably heavily
- 35:07Speaker 3: weighted towards technology.
- 35:09Speaker 1: Yeah. Is there a part of you He mentioned medical
- 35:11Speaker 1: devices just as a throwaway, but is there just getting
- 35:14Speaker 1: to know Martin Hawes a little bit more, is there
- 35:16Speaker 1: a part of Martin Hawes that has spent some of
- 35:19Speaker 1: that money you set aside for medical procedures, and you're thinking,
- 35:21Speaker 1: you know what, I'm going to go get some of
- 35:23Speaker 1: that money back. So I'm going to tell my I'm
- 35:25Speaker 1: going to go for looking for a fund that specializes
- 35:27Speaker 1: medical devices because I want some money out of you guys.
- 35:31Speaker 3: No, no, I thought would be yes, no, But I
- 35:37Speaker 3: I'm not sure. I don't manage my own money now,
- 35:40Speaker 3: somebody else manages for me. And there was a fund
- 35:44Speaker 3: in there which was a medical device's fund.
- 35:48Speaker 2: I don't think there was, okay.
- 35:49Speaker 1: I just thought there was a slightly revenge investment sort
- 35:52Speaker 1: of thing, like, well, I've had to spend thousands on
- 35:54Speaker 1: this operational'm minute go get some of it back. Hey, Martin,
- 35:56Speaker 1: just hold there because we'll be back in a moment.
- 35:58Speaker 1: Because the one final question I want to ask Martin
- 36:01Speaker 1: is about how do you find that investment fund manager?
- 36:04Speaker 1: Because everything involves research, doesn't it, or does some of
- 36:07Speaker 1: it involve just a little bit of blind luck when
- 36:08Speaker 1: you buy Tesla shares at the age of eighteen and
- 36:10Speaker 1: buy a house as a result. It's ten to six. Yes,
- 36:15Speaker 1: welcome back to smart Money. When my guests is Martin
- 36:17Speaker 1: Hahawes actually just had a clarification from my young producer
- 36:19Speaker 1: Tyra about because some think she's worried. People think that
- 36:21Speaker 1: she thinks she had a lot of money and shoved
- 36:23Speaker 1: it into Tesla. She literally had a job at McDonald's
- 36:26Speaker 1: and every spare sense she actually shoved into Tesla and
- 36:30Speaker 1: it just happened to work out quite well for her.
- 36:32Speaker 1: She said, her story is about just dumb luck. But
- 36:35Speaker 1: I tell you what, if it's good on you for
- 36:38Speaker 1: at least being in the game. Hey, Martin, So if
- 36:43Speaker 1: you're looking for a fund manager and someone is listening
- 36:45Speaker 1: and thinking, you know what, Actually I didn't realize you
- 36:46Speaker 1: can invest in specific injury in industry, so specifically any
- 36:52Speaker 1: Obviously you can't recommend. You're not going to recommend any
- 36:54Speaker 1: particular fund managers. But how would people do their research
- 36:57Speaker 1: on that aspect?
- 36:59Speaker 3: I think one of the key key things there were
- 37:03Speaker 3: two things to think about. One is you might be
- 37:05Speaker 3: looking for fund management. You might also be looking for
- 37:07Speaker 3: a financial advisor, because financial advisors, you know, run people's money,
- 37:11Speaker 3: you know, and they invested for them. A fund manager,
- 37:16Speaker 3: I would be tending to look for somebody who's been
- 37:18Speaker 3: around and had good performance for a fairly long period
- 37:21Speaker 3: of time.
- 37:22Speaker 1: Yea, so not just sort of like twelve months. Look
- 37:25Speaker 1: at me, I'm the miracle kid.
- 37:27Speaker 3: No, there's a very good story from a woman called
- 37:31Speaker 3: Kathy Wood our investments. She's still investing in technology out
- 37:37Speaker 3: of the US. But in her first year, which was
- 37:39Speaker 3: about five five years ago, maybe seven, she produced one
- 37:44Speaker 3: hundred and fifty percent and just billions of dollars flooded
- 37:47Speaker 3: than to that fund.
- 37:48Speaker 1: Wow.
- 37:49Speaker 3: She's never performed any good ever since.
- 37:52Speaker 1: So don't go for the one hit wonders. No, exactly excellent. Hey, Martin,
- 37:59Speaker 1: thanks so much for your time and stuff, and now
- 38:01Speaker 1: that time's flown by. Yeah. Then my only disappointment was
- 38:05Speaker 1: I really wanted you to say that you bought in
- 38:06Speaker 1: medical investment funds as a revenge for your procedures. But hey,
- 38:10Speaker 1: so when's the book out?
- 38:13Speaker 2: Probably March. I think it is excellent.
- 38:16Speaker 1: Okay, well, good luck we're finding that title pushing the
- 38:19Speaker 1: retirement button. That's my suggestion. Anyway, Thanks Martin, good to
- 38:23Speaker 1: see you, mate, and thanks you Jim. There we go. Hey,
- 38:25Speaker 1: that wraps up the show. Thank you so much for
- 38:27Speaker 1: your companies, and thank you very much to my producer,
- 38:30Speaker 1: Tyra Roberts for looking after me so well, and actually
- 38:33Speaker 1: sharing her little story there about a bit of luck
- 38:35Speaker 1: on the old Tesla. She is good on your tyra
- 38:38Speaker 1: job at McDonald's, put everything in at the age of
- 38:41Speaker 1: eighteen and to Tesla got her house deposit. By the way,
- 38:46Speaker 1: that's not the moral of the story. The moral of
- 38:47Speaker 1: the story is diversification and fund managers, not just luck,
- 38:51Speaker 1: but enjoyed hearing that story. Hey, Sunday at six is next,
- 38:55Speaker 1: so stick around for Petra and Frank and we'll be
- 38:58Speaker 1: back same time next weekend. And as you know, you
- 39:00Speaker 1: can check out the podcast. There's some great material on there.
- 39:02Speaker 1: Look for the Weekend Collective on iHeartRadio. Have a fabulous
- 39:05Speaker 1: evening or catch again soon.