IMDEX Limited (ASX:IMD) is a mining services company with solid leverage to gold exploration and development activity. The key attraction for us is the strong IP within the business. Incoming Chief Executive Officer, Paul House shares the exciting pipeline of new technologies.

As small cap investors, we are constantly seeking money-making opportunities arising from change events. We look for the emergence of specific structural or cyclical factors which have the potential to open up new markets, drive earnings higher or alter market perceptions about business quality or valuation.

Finding growth businesses with a long runway of opportunity, that can also grow independent of the economic cycle, can feel a bit like looking for a needle in a haystack. But we think PointsBet Holdings (ASX:PBH) is one of those businesses. PointsBet Holdings is at the ground floor of the commercialisation of legal online sports betting in the US.

Back in November 1990, with the Australian economy deep in the doldrums, Treasurer Paul Keating uttered his now famous remark that this was “a recession that Australia had to have”.   It was, remarkably, Australia’s last recession.