Independent ASX Equity Research for Australian Investors | Alpha Insights
A Note from the Founder
You already know something is wrong.
You have been through it. The charting guru who paraded winners and quietly buried losers. The subscription service that upsold you to a premium tier without ever addressing whether the base product worked. The broker research that existed to generate trading commissions, not to protect your capital. The provider who claimed to invest "alongside" you while their objectivity quietly eroded.
You are not confused. You are agitated. Your guard is up. Every new provider looks like the last one dressed in different clothes. And you are tired of pretending otherwise.
I built Alpha Insights for you.
My name is Ryan Lim. I spent 7 years as an institutional equity research analyst. I hold a Master's in Applied Finance from Macquarie University. I have navigated every major school of investing thought (technical, fundamental, and macro) and I can tell you from experience that most of what is sold to retail investors as "research" would not survive a single day of institutional scrutiny.
So I built something different. Alpha Insights is an investor-first equity research platform. 450+ ASX companies, fully modelled, with transparent assumptions you can challenge. I do not own stocks. I do not manage money. I do not invest "alongside" you. I just analyse, as impartially as I know how, so you can make better decisions with your own capital.
I am one person, and this is my life's work. Everything that follows is written in my voice because there is no committee, no editorial board, no marketing team. Just me, talking to you.
Ryan LimFounder, Alpha Insights M.AppFin (Macquarie) | 7 Years Institutional Equity Research
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Is this you?
I built Alpha Insights for a specific kind of investor.
Not for the casual browser looking for a stock tip to mention at dinner. Not for someone who wants to feel good about their portfolio without doing the work. This is for the investor who has been through enough to know the difference between real analysis and a dressed-up sales pitch.
You have been burned before, and it left a mark. Part of you is reluctant to trust another provider again, even when the work looks legitimate.
You are sick of surface-level content that insults your intelligence. A price target and a "buy" rating is not enough for you anymore.
You have been through the charting phase, or the tip-following phase, or the "premium upgrade" phase. None of it delivered what was promised.
You want someone standalone. Independent. Someone who does not own the stocks they analyse, does not manage a fund on the side, and will actually fight for your interests.
You take investing seriously, not as a hobby, not as gambling. You want genuine analysis, transparent assumptions, and someone who will tell you the truth even when it is uncomfortable.
You do not need hand-holding. You need tools, depth, and a second opinion you can trust.
If that's you, what follows is evidence, not promises.
Track Record
I said I'd show you proof. Here it is.
My top high-conviction buy calls generated a 0 compared to the ASX 200 benchmark's 0 over the exact same period, outperforming the index by nearly 0.
But here is what matters more to me: the sell signals. In October 2025, I told members to sell and move to cash. The market dropped 6%. In January 2026, I called an exit before the Iran-driven fall. Members who followed those signals kept their gains while the market gave them back. Avoiding losses is more powerful than chasing gains.
Consider a simple example: on a $100,000 portfolio, sidestepping just one 5% drawdown protects $5,000 of your capital. That single avoided loss is worth 10 years of Alpha Insights membership at $500/year. One signal. One decision. A decade of membership paid for.
Without signal
$95,000
With signal
$100,000
$5,000 protected = 10 years of membership
Long Only: My Top Picks vs ASX 200
15 highest-conviction buy calls, Oct 14 2025 - Mar 2 2026
My Top 15 Picks (+13.25%)ASX 200 Benchmark (+3.39%)Cash Rate (+1.09%)
My top 15 buy ideas from the ASX 100, tracked from October 2025 to March 2026 using Bloomberg-verified prices. These are the stocks I liked most, and how they actually performed.
Buying Winners, Avoiding Losers: Combined Returns vs Cash
ASX 100, Oct 14 2025 - Mar 2 2026
My Long + Short Picks (+14.78%)Cash Rate (+1.09%)
What if you went long the stocks I liked and short the ones I did not? This chart shows exactly that: equal portions of my long and short picks. Long the stocks I believe in, short the ones I do not. This removes the market relationship entirely. The performance reflects whether I can actually pick stocks.
Portfolio Strategy: Sell Signals vs ASX 200
Timing calls overlaid on the S&P/ASX 200 Total Return, Oct 14 2025 - Mar 11 2026
Alpha Insights Strategy (+3.91%)S&P/ASX 200 Total Return (-0.25%)Sell Signal Active
The red zones show when I told members to sell and move to cash. By following these signals, members returned +3.91% while the ASX 200 lost -0.25% over the same period, a difference of +4.15% just from knowing when to step aside.
Top 3 Longs
Company
My Call
Result
WGX Westgold Resources
Long
+43.8%
BHP BHP Group
Long
+38.5%
WDS Woodside Energy
Long
+35.3%
Top 3 Shorts
Company
My Call
Stock Move
ZIP Zip Co
Short
-62.4%
PME Pro Medicus
Short
-56.1%
XRO Xero
Short
-48.2%
The model portfolio: long and short positions side by side, with live performance tracking
Tracked from Oct 14, 2025 to Mar 2, 2026 (100 trading days). 87 ASX 100 companies covered. All prices sourced from Bloomberg (adjusted for dividends and stock splits). Past performance is not indicative of future results.
So who produced these results, and why should you trust that they're repeatable?
Who Built This
The numbers above come from one person's work.
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Ryan Lim. Founder of Alpha Insights.
I spent 18 months and tens of thousands of dollars building the proprietary valuation framework behind Alpha Insights. It has been stress-tested across 500+ companies and refined through 4 reporting seasons. Each subsequent season identified fewer problems, tighter outputs, and solutions that are increasingly at the fine-tuning level rather than at structural breakpoints.
With my institutional background and a decade in markets, I have navigated every major school of investing thought: technical, fundamental, and macro. That experience shaped every design decision in this platform.
I am not going to tell you I'm the best analyst in Australia. I am going to tell you that I built something rigorous, I stand behind every output with my name on it, and I hold myself to a standard that I believe this industry has let slip.
You don't know what you don't know.And the industry profits from keeping it that way.
What providers tell you
"I invest my own money alongside yours."
That sounds like alignment. In practice, the moment a provider has their own capital in the same positions they recommend, their objectivity changes. They might not exit when the signal says to. They might not be as bearish when they need to be. Whether it happens consciously or not is irrelevant. The structural incentive has shifted.
What I do instead
I don't own stocks. Period.
I removed that dynamic entirely. Every piece of analysis I produce is genuinely impartial because I have nothing at stake except my reputation.
What providers tell you
"Our system works. Here are the winners."
They talk up the stocks that went well. They showcase their winners. And the stocks that didn't perform? Quietly left out of the narrative. Given how fast-moving markets are, people forget and move on. You can be strung along for years before you realise the research you've been following is not delivering.
What I do instead
I show you my short calls too, and what happened to them.
Look at the track record above. I don't just show you the stocks I said to go long. I show you the stocks I said to short: ZIP (-62.4%), PME (-56.1%), XRO (-48.2%). If I'm wrong, you'll see it. That's the standard I hold myself to.
What providers tell you
"Upgrade to Premium for the real content."
Year 1 you learn the system. Year 2 you implement it. Year 3 they sell you the premium tier. The cycle keeps you paying, but the fundamental question, whether the approach actually generates acceptable returns, remains unaddressed.
What I do instead
One plan. Everything you need included from day one.
$500 per year. Every report, every portfolio strategy note, every tool, every update. The base membership gives you everything you need. The add-ons I build over time are quality-of-life features, not prerequisites for performance. You will never be at a disadvantage with just the base. I keep fees as low as I can because your capital is precious, and every dollar you spend on a subscription is a dollar that is not in your portfolio.
I say these things because if you are reading this far, you have probably been burned before. Your guard is up. The only way I can earn your attention is honesty.
What Makes This Different
Not better marketing. A fundamentally different structure.
Genuinely impartial.
I hold zero positions. Not as a compliance checkbox, but as a foundational principle. When your analyst has skin in the game, their analysis serves their portfolio, not yours.
Radically transparent.
I will tell you when a stock is overvalued, even if it is popular. I will tell you when my own analysis was wrong. I will admit the limitations of any valuation model, including mine. I am not here to make you feel good about your portfolio. I am here to show you what is actually going on, because you deserve decisions based on reality, not narrative.
Built for a cause, not a lifestyle.
Alpha Insights exists to generate sustainable funding for childhood cancer initiatives. That is not a corporate responsibility line on a website. It is the reason I left my career, the reason I built this platform, and the reason I keep fees as low as I possibly can. Your subscription does not fund a lifestyle. It funds the mission. There's a personal story behind it.
Everything I wish existed when I was investing on my own.
Flagship
Deep-Dive Research Reports
450+ ASX companies, each taken through a 100+ page analysis process, distilled into clear, actionable insights. No information overload. Just the key points.
Not a 2-page summary with a price target. Every assumption is transparent. Every thesis can be challenged. You see how I arrived at the number, not just the number itself.
Flagship
Portfolio Strategy Notes
Entry and exit timing based on the valuation framework, including the sell signals, because knowing when to get out is more valuable than knowing when to get in. My October 2025 sell signal helped members avoid a 6% loss. My January 2026 exit call sidestepped the Iran-driven market fall. Protecting your downside is the whole point.
Economic Intelligence
A continuously updated macro view built from data across multiple companies and sectors. Not one analyst's opinion, but a structured, data-driven picture of what is happening in the economy and what it means for your portfolio.
Update & Comparison Alerts
When something important changes at a company (earnings results, acquisitions, major news) I update the research and show you exactly what changed, whether my view shifted, and why.
Full Research Portal
Search any ASX company. Browse model portfolios. Read economic updates. Everything lives in one place, accessible on desktop and mobile. No PDFs buried in your inbox. Structured, searchable, always current.
Inside a company research report: valuation, financials, risk analysis, and member discussion
"The more time I spend, the more I like it. A fantastic product."
PI
Self-Directed Investor
Former Business Consultant
"Your offering is far superior. I find your honesty refreshing."
BT
Senior Banking Professional
Major Australian Bank
"A much more thorough and professional product than others I've seen."
CS
Professional Fund Manager
Global Investment Banks
Why This Exists
Before I ask you for anything, you should know why this exists.
In 2023, my son Chase was diagnosed with cancer in his left eye. What followed broke me in ways I did not know a person could break, and then rebuilt me into someone with a very different set of priorities.
Alpha Insights exists to generate sustainable funding for childhood cancer initiatives. Not as a CSR initiative bolted on for optics. This is the reason I am here. Every subscription contributes to that mission.
That is the short version. The full story is difficult to tell, and it is deeply personal. But if you want to understand why I do this, why every decision, every late night, every principle in this document exists, it starts with Chase.
One plan. Everything you need, included from day one.
Most ASX research services charge $800-$3,450/yr for 2-5 page reports on a handful of companies. I cover 450+ companies with institutional-depth analysis for less than $1.37 per day.
One good decision pays for years of membership.
I keep fees as low as possible, not as a marketing strategy, but because your capital is precious. Particularly if you have already lost money and are trying to right the ship. Every dollar you spend on a subscription is a dollar not in your portfolio. I take that seriously.
Alpha Insights Full Access
$500
per year, less than $1.37 per day
450+ Company Research Reports (100+ page analysis distilled to key insights)
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FAQ
Hard questions, honest answers.
AI is a tool in my framework, not a replacement for judgment. I spent 18 months and tens of thousands of dollars building the process that sits behind every report. I use AI the way an institutional analyst would use a Bloomberg terminal, as infrastructure, not as the analyst. The domain knowledge, the assumptions, the judgment calls: those are mine, built on 10+ years of market experience. Every output is human-verified. And here is the honest part: as AI-generated content floods the market, I believe a lot of what you will see from other platforms will be surface-level product dressed up with impressive formatting. Be careful around those.
Because my purpose is to support your investing, not to run a fund. The moment I manage capital, my incentives shift. I would have a track record to protect, performance fees to optimise for, positions I am anchored to. I have seen what that does to objectivity. It is subtle and it is corrosive. I want to remain fully impartial. That is more valuable to you than any fund return I could generate. And honestly, the mission this funds is bigger than any individual portfolio.
It will be, sometimes. A valuation is an output of assumptions, not a law of physics. No model has the reliability of a physics equation where the relationship holds and the output is repeatable. What I commit to is transparency. You will see every assumption, understand how I arrived at every conclusion, and be able to form your own view. I will own my mistakes publicly, not bury them. That is the difference between this and the providers who parade their winners and quietly let the losers disappear from the narrative.
Because I have no one to hide behind. Every analysis, every call, every mistake has my name on it. There is no committee to diffuse accountability, no corporate layer to absorb blame. And if I ever feel that I cannot uphold the standard my members deserve, I will shut the system down. I would rather cease to exist than dilute the offering into something that does not genuinely serve its members. That is not a hypothetical commitment made for marketing purposes. It is a deeply held conviction.
There are no hidden tiers. Everything you need is included from day one. I do not invest alongside you. I do not run a fund on the side. Each company undergoes an in-depth analysis process covering 100+ pages, distilled into clear, actionable insights. Not a 2-page summary with a buy/sell rating. I cover 450+ companies, not just the ASX 50. And I charge less than almost all of them. If you want to see how well their approach actually works, look at their fund performance. The numbers are public. That is where the truth lives, not in the curated testimonials.
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