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"The AI age must cherish the value of intellectual property if we are collectively to realise our potential. Much is made of the competition with China, but America’s advantage is ingenuity and creativity, not bits and bytes, not watts but wit. To undermine that comparative advantage by stripping away IP rights is to vandalise our virtuosity."
Crop Protection
“In Australia, timely rains improved winter crop planting prospects and are expected to support crop input demand in the second half of 2025.” Market Statement, Nutrien Ag. Ltd
Debt Purchasing
"While there are signs of a return to growth, the AU/NZ debt buying market remains constrained with sale volumes still significantly below pre-COVID levels." Market Statement, Credit Corp Ltd
Auto Transition
"Once people go electric, they rarely go back to petrol or diesel." Julie Delvecchio, CEO, Electric Vehicle Council
“We, in the short term, we're experiencing with a couple of big customers, we have problems. They are having issues with their own ramp-up of their product line. So that's the temporary issue we see.” Paulo Sternadt, CEO, Eaton Inc. [global power management company]
Alternative Investing
“If you turn the clock back 30 years, people really only invested in the core asset classes, being retail, commercial, industrial. Fast forward to today, and there’s a whole plethora of alternative asset classes that sit out of those core asset classes.” Julian Biggins, Co-CEO, MA Financial Ltd
Intellectual Property
"The AI age must cherish the value of intellectual property if we are collectively to realise our potential. Much is made of the competition with China, but America’s advantage is ingenuity and creativity, not bits and bytes, not watts but wit. To undermine that comparative advantage by stripping away IP rights is to vandalise our virtuosity." Robert Thomson, CEO, News Corp
Internet Connectivity
“Today, Australia probably has 70 per cent of the land which is not covered by anybody.” Iñaki Berroeta, CEO, TPG Telecom Ltd
Health Wearables Vs Diagnostics
They will definitely be getting better, particularly for some of these lifestyle, physical fitness [health] markers. I just don’t see them replacing really the deeper diagnostics…Therefore, we see them being more complementary to what we are doing.” Marc Hermann, CEO, Everlab [Melbourne based longevity clinic]
Gen Z & Millennials
“Nobody even comes close to understanding this generation's attitudes and preferences towards dating better than we do…So what we know about this generation of daters is that they're different. They want to connect. They have a loneliness epidemic, and they're exceedingly digitally consumed by smartphone usage.” Spencer Rascoff, CEO, Match Group [world’s largest dating app company inc. owner of brands Tinder & Hinge]
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Social Media & Augmented Reality Glasses
“People are spending more than 7 hours a day now, on average, staring down screens and I think even just moving a couple of hours of that to looking out at the world through see-through lenses and a pair of glasses can make a meaningful difference for people's well-being, but also the way they interact with computing and in AI in general.” Evan Spiegel, CEO, Snap Inc.
“Well, one of the things we're noticing, obviously, in the whole world seeing is that a lot of travel is switching from desktop to mobile and from Google search to social media.” Brian Chesky, CEO, Airbnb Inc.
Beer & Cans
“There's some innovation in that [non-alcoholic] category, probably more so than any other category…I think the other thing in the non-alcohol category, in particular, is we're seeing a lot of multipack purchases that are connected to purchasing on promotional activity. The promotional activity is not higher than it has been in the last couple of years, but people are buying connected to that. So that's certainly good for the can...Obviously, beer is softer than we anticipated.” Daniel Fisher, CEO, Ball Corp. [the world's largest maker of recyclable aluminium beverage cans]
Food Delivery
“So you have this big market out there where we're a single-digit percentage of that when you look at the number of occasions that we actually capture today, we still lose the vast majority of those occasions to the pantry or a different form of consumption. And so it tells me that we actually have a very large runway ahead as long as we can keep improving the product.” Tony Xu, CEO, DoorDash Inc.
Golf Spending
“Looking outside the U.S., market conditions remained strong in the U.K. and Northern Europe markets, but are a little softer year-over-year in Asia and Central Europe.” Oliver Brewer, CEO, Topgolf Callaway Brands Corp.
Councils
“Councils are under pressure to do more with less.” Stuart MacDonald, COO, TechnologyOne Ltd
Mining Sector Mega-Mergers
“In the mining industry, you’re lucky if you’re a $100bn company. No other industry in the world survives without mining because of the products and minerals and metals that we produce. I think there’s a big argument for consolidation with our industry because of value creation, relevance, attracting staff, attracting talent, attracting shareholders, attracting funds, and a number of other areas.” Gary Nagle, CEO, Glencore plc
Australians
"Australians are property obsessed." Owen Wilson, CEO, REA Group Ltd
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