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We have reached our final episode of 2023. And what a year it was: inflation and interest rates, miracle drugs to record breaking sports contracts, AI to CZ, there was so much that happened.

Today, we’re recapping the year that was. To do it, we’re bringing in the whole team at Equity Mates to share what they think are were the biggest business stories of the year.

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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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We’re back for another Fast 3. Where a collection of the team from the Equity Mates join me to cover 3 stories in less than 15 minutes. Today, we’re covering a range of topics today from a world-first global treaty on plastic waste to why Elon Musk told Disney CEO Bob Iger to go f- himself. Also, we’re looking at recent housing data that suggests it’s actually cheaper to buy than rent in some parts of Australia. That doesn’t seem right - Alec and Sascha dig into the numbers.

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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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America is once again nearing a financial crisis, where the government is unable to spend money and needs to shut down everything but the most essential services.

Unless the US Congress agrees to pass a series of appropriations bills and allow the US government to spend, America’s federal government will shutdown on Friday 17 November. Alec and Sascha answer the question - why should we care?

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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.

The Dive is part of the Acast Creator Network.

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By now, you’d’ve heard of ChatGPT. And after playing with it for a couple of minutes - had that moment of existential dread as you think - how long until this technology takes my job? Don't worry, ChatGPT is still often getting things wrong. 

Here at Equity Mates HQ, we asked it for a blurb on an Australian software company. It gave us a description for a real estate investment trust - that’s just not right. We shared a few other examples in our Thought Starters email last week - including ChatGPT telling users the Philadelphia Eagles won the Superbowl and that Croatia left the European Union in 2022. 

So take a deep breath. While ChatGPT still needs a fact checker, we’re a long way from AI taking our jobs.  But we wanted to take stock and see where the most exciting experiments were happening. Sascha and Alec talk about - what are the emerging use cases of ChatGPT?

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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.

The Dive is part of the Acast Creator Network.

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Over the past decade, the biggest agricultural revolution since the domestication of livestock has been taking place. 

Cultured meat. Cultivated meat. Lab-grown meat. Cell-based meat. No kill meat. Whatever you call it, what started as Dutch researcher Mark Post’s effort to prove you could produce meat without killing animals - has since exploded into one of the hottest trends in agriculture. 

In 2020, VC funding for lab-grown meat crossed $1 billion dollars. In 2021, it crossed $2 billion. More than 100 companies around the world are trying to create cell-based protein, ranging from lab-grown lamb to lab-grown oysters, and even lab-grown foie gras. And we are seeing progress. Just in the past few months, Singapore’s government wined and dined VIP guests with cultivated meat at COP27 and lab-grown chicken passed its first hurdle with the US Food and Drug Administration.

Today Alec and Sascha ask, how close are we to eating lab-grown meat? And is it lab-grown meat vegan?

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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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The Australian Securities and Investments Commission - ASIC - has just brought forward its first ever greenwashing case. It's accused Mercer Superannuation of misleading customers about its sustainable plus fund, one of its superannuation investment options. The Sustainable Plus options were marketed as suitable for members who ‘are deeply committed to sustainability’ due to the fact they excluded investments in companies involved in carbon intensive fossil fuels, alcohol production and gambling.

But ASIC alleges that is far from what Mercer actually did.

These are just accusations currently, it might be the tip of the iceberg when it comes to a crackdown on greenwashing in Australia. The Australian competition watchdog recently completed a sweep of companies environmental claims, and subsequently found 57% of the companies they looked at made misleading statements about their climate action and other behaviour.

Today Sascha and Darcy were joined by AFR journalist Hannah Wootton who helps them answer - is this the beginning of many greenwashing cases?

Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here, or find out more here.  Stay engaged with the Equity Mates community by joining our forum. 

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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The Reserve Bank has been looking into the use of a central bank digital currency here in Australia.

The world is rapidly moving towards a cashless society - Cash was used for 59% of point-of-sale transactions in 2022, down from 72% in 2019. 

But in Australia less than 25% of transactions use cash, in the UK it’s just 15% and in Norway, only 3% of payment transactions are cash!

So our currency is basically digital already. So when the RBA announced plans to create a Central Bank Digital Currency our biggest question was... Why? Isn’t the Aussie Dollar pretty digital already?

So we set out to better understand this emerging world of Central Bank Digital Currencies or CBDC’s today.

Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here, or find out more here.  Stay engaged with the Equity Mates community by joining our forum. 

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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The government has announced they want to tax earnings above $3 million in super at 30% instead of the current 15%. That's frustrating if you're one of the 0.5% of Australians with that kind of money in your account. But most of us don't have $3 million stashed away... actually the average account has a measly $150,000 in it. Forbes reports that by the age of 25-29, the average man will have around $45,100 in their super fund, and woman will have $39,400.

So... just who is affect by these new changes? Darcy and Sascha are joined by Nassim Khadem to unpack the answer.

Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here, or find out more here. Stay engaged with the Equity Mates community by joining our forum. 

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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Onions, a staple in many dishes worldwide, are currently facing a serious shortage.

This shortage, along with other food crises, raises concerns about food security. It’s a global problem. Especially because onions are the staple of cuisines across the world, the most consumed vegetable after tomatoes.

If you put all the carrots, turnips, chillies, garlic and peppers the world together - that’s the equivalent of just how many onions are produced. About 106 million metric tons. Now though, the two most consumed vegetables in the world are suffering shortages. Severe shortages. And it is affecting many millions of people around the world.

Today Alec and Sascha ask - why is the world running out of onions?

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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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Companies are exploring ways to offer more flexibility and better work-life balance to their employees. One trend gaining traction is the four-day workweek. In a pilot program in Britain, 56 out of 61 businesses decided to continue with the four-day workweek, recognizing its benefits.

Benefits for employees include better work-life balance and reduced burnout. According to the pilot program, 70% of employees reported lower levels of burnout at the end of the trial. Benefits for employers include increased employee retention and productivity.

In this episode, Darcy and Sascha delve into the arguments for the 4 day work week, and how they potentially could benefit...

Tell us what you think of The Dive - email us at thedive@equitymates.com. Follow our Instagram here, or find out more here.  Stay engaged with the Equity Mates community by joining our forum. 

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.