We last spoke with Paul in 2019, when COVID wasn’t around, and the Australian technology sector was really picking up pace. We asked him back on the show because we wanted to know how he’d managed COVID, and what further investment opportunities it has presented Bailador. Paul has had extensive private equity investment experience as a Director of CHAMP Private …

It was great to have Jess Amir back on the show. Jess is a Market Analyst at Bell Direct. We had Jess on in June 2020, and we invited her back to review her bold predictions, to share some lessons from 2020, and to provide us with some thoughts on what is to come in 2021. in this episode, we …

Value investing is going through a rough time at the moment. Not since the heady days of the late 1990’s has value so underperformed growth as an investment strategy. To discuss everything value investing we spoke to Lanyon Asset Management’s David Prescott and Jack Trengove. David is the founder and Managing Director of Lanyon. He has over 18 years funds …

Nick Griffin is the founding Partner and the Chief Investment Officer of Munro Partners. He is responsible for the investment management of Munro’s key investment funds and the formulation and implementation of the proprietary investment process. Has has extensive experience, and has been managing global long / short equity mandates for over 12 years. We were honoured to chat with …

Tom is a Market Analyst at CommSec, and a cult figure in the finance space, and we loved chatting to him. In this episode we cover: Key pillars to building an investment portfolio Common misconceptions beginners have about the sharemarket Biggest lessons from COVID Lessons from his conversations with some of Australia’s best CEO’s in his Executive Series Plus much …

We love innovators, and we love people that challenge the status quo. That’s why we had such a good time chatting to Rudi Filapek-Vandyck. Rudi is founder and editor of FNArena – a site with some of the best research on Australian companies you’ll find. Editor Rudi founded FNArena in June 2002, having successfully built up an online financial news …

Happy 300th episode Equity Mates! We’ve got a special episode for you to mark this awesome milestone. Rory Lucas may have the best job in Australian finance. As the Chief Investment Officer of Hearts & Minds Investments, he is responsible for taking some of the best ideas from the greatest investors in Australia and around the world and managing them …

2020 has been a strange year for markets. With so much happening and so much uncertainty, we turned to one of our favourite expert investors Andrew Brown to help make sense of it all. Andrew is the Executive Director of East 72, an Australian listed investment company, and is the investor we turn to when we are trying to understand …

In this episode we continue our exploration of Initial Public Offerings (IPO). In the last bonus episode, we got an in-depth understanding of the IPO process at TDM Growth Partners from one of the co-founders, Tom Cowan. We thought it’d be a great idea for Tom to talk us through a real life example of a company considering an IPO. …

As a retail investor, we often don’t get a lot of insight into what goes on behind closed doors when a company goes from being private to public and is listed on the stock exchange. It is critical to get the process right, to set up a company, and its investors, for long-term success. Over the next two episodes, we …

In this episode we sit down with Julia Lee, from Burman Invest. Julia has been a regular on the show, as part of our Mastermind series. We wanted to get her views on: her major lessons from the COvID-19 crash any permanent changes she’s seeing as a result of COVID-19 reporting season highs and lows buy now, pay later – …

This episode is a big one. Full of big ideas and a lot of thoughts about the future. We were joined by Viktor Shvets, Managing Director & Head of Asia-Pacific and Global Strategy at Macquarie Bank and author of ‘The Great Rupture: Do we need to be free? Three empires, four turning points and the future of humanity’. Viktor has …

For this episode, we were joined by financial advisor and fellow podcaster Victoria Devine. Victoria is the co-founder of Zella, a financial advice business based in Melbourne, and founder of She’s on the Money, a financial education platform empowering women with the tools and confidence they need to change their financial situations. As an expert on personal finance, Victoria shared …

Every year, the ASX survey Australian investors to take the pulse of the Australian investment community. They look at who’s investing, what they’re focusing on and trends that are emerging throughout the investor landscape. The ASX have just released their 2020 study and we were joined by Rory Cunningham to discuss what they found. Rory is the Senior Manager of …

The past few months have seen an unprecedented monetary policy response from the US Federal Reserve. Under the guise of doing ‘whatever it takes’ to keep the markets and economy stable, the Fed has printed money at rates never seen before, with much of it ending up in financial markets. To help us understand what the long-term implications of this …

In today’s interview, we sat down with founder and lead investment analyst at Rask Invest, Owen Raszkiewicz. Owen is an expert in small cap investing and the founder of two successful investing podcasts – The Australian Investors Podcast and The Australian Finance Podcast. In this interview we unpack Owen’s investing philosophy and then go deep on two particular areas of …

This episode is the audio recording from our ASK THE EXPERTS: ETF Special with Equity Mates & BetaShares. The session was a live, virtual Q&A with the co-founder of Betashares, Ilan Israelstam. The questions we ask during the session have all come from the Equity Mates community, and cover a wide variety of topics. The key themes and questions of …

In this interview we sit down with global small cap expert Nick Cregan. Nick is a portfolio manager at Fairlight Asset Management, a fund manager specialising in global small and mid caps. In this interview we asked Nick to take us through three specific small caps he’s been looking at. Ideally, three we’ve never heard of. He obliged and took …

This was such a fun episode! When we noticed that Usman Khawaja was part of the Equity Mates community, we reached out to see where he was at on his investing journey. It turned out that he’d just started, and had put money in the markets right before the COVID-19 crash in March. Given that it was the fastest crash …

Christopher Joye is well-known as one of Australia’s leading economists, policy advisors and fund managers. He is the Chief Investment Officer & Portfolio Manager at Coolabah Capital Investments. Christopher founded Coolabah Capital in 2011 and leads the portfolio management effort that has produced one of Australia’s top short-term fixed-interest capabilities. Christopher is also a Contributing Editor with The Australian Financial …

Emilie O’Neill is an ESG and equities analyst for Perennial and does a large portion of the research for the eInvest Future Impact Small Caps Fund (Managed Fund) (ASX:IMPQ). In this episode we were interested in understanding the day-to-day work of a research analyst, and the process Emilie follows to uncover stocks that fit in the ESG universe, and eventually …

Afterpay (ASX: APT) has captured the imagination of every Australian investor recently. Up more than 700% since the depths of COVID in March, it is leading a collection of Buy Now, Pay Later stocks that have seen unbelievable returns over the past few months. The company recently released a share purchase plan (aka capital raising) to the market – selling …

We were delighted to have Danielle Ecuyer join us for this episode, to go back to basics with share investing. Danielle has just launched her new book ‘Shareplicity – A Simple Approach To Share Investing‘, which we found to be a great read. Danielle trained as a share equities analyst in the late 1980s, before relocating to London in the …

In this episode we sit down with Matt Leibowitz – founder & CEO of Stake, and a good friend of the show. COVID-19 sent investors into a frenzy. We saw the fastest market drop in history, and have now witnessed the fastest recovery in history as well. We wanted to know what were the stocks that were hot, and the …

It was an absolute honour to have the 29th Prime Minister of Australia, Malcolm Turnbull, join us on the show. Malcolm has recently released his biography ‘A Bigger Picture’, and there were some incredible stories in there about his time in finance before he got into politics. In this episode, we unpack ‘Malcolm the investor’, to get an insight into …

We were joined by Chris Wheldon, Portfolio Manager at Magellan Financial Group. Chris re-joined Magellan in 2018 and is a Portfolio Manager of Magellan’s High Conviction Strategy and an Assistant Portfolio Manager on the Global Equities Strategies.  We had Chris on the show earlier this year and loved hearing him explain his thought process and how he formed an investment thesis. …

In this episode we’re joined by Jessica Amir – a market analyst and presenter at Bell Direct. Prior to joining Bell Direct, Jessica was the Head of News and Content at Finance News Network where she developed detailed research and content on financial markets. Previously, Jessica held roles at Money Management, Prime 7, WIN News, and ABC News. She is …

 In this episode, we have a chat with Adam Verwey – co-founder and director of Future Super. Adam started in the ethical investing space with 9 years at Australian Ethical Investment and was a candidate for the greens in the 2013 federal election. He co-founded Future Super in 2014. Adam is passionate about the future of Australia’s climate change …

In this episode we speak to US-based expert investor Yaron Naymark. Yaron is the portfolio manager at 1 Main Capital, a long-focused fund investing in high-quality, attractively valued, growing businesses. Yaron has over 10 years experience in finance and before 1 Main, worked at CitiBank, H.I.G. Capital, Altalis Capital and Glenhill Capital.  In this interview we discuss Yaron’s investment philosophy …

In our latest expert investor interview we are joined by expert on deep value investing, Tobias Carlisle. Tobias started his career in Australia, before making the move to the United States and founding Acquirers Funds LLC. Tobias is also the author of several books on value investing: Quantitative Value, Deep Value, and The Acquirers Multiple. In this episode we unpack …

In this expert investor interview, we are joined by the value investor Andrew Oskoui. Andrew is the portfolio manager and principal at Blue Tower Asset Management based in Austin, Texas. Blue Tower combines quantitative analysis with the principles of classic value investing to find interesting opportunities in public markets. In this interview we explore Andrew’s investment strategy and unpack what …

You may have heard of Ed Cowan due to his success as a professional cricketer. However, what you probably didn’t know is that he has a passion for investing and high-performing cultures, and is part of the successful investment team at TDM Growth Partners. TDM Growth Partners are a global investment firm, who invests in fast-growing companies. What was of …

It’s no secret that women on average have a lower superannuation balance than men. This can be for many reasons. So when we came across FairVine Super, we knew we needed to get them on the show. FairVine is a superannuation fund designed for women. We sat down with Rachel Hamlen, who is the Head Of Customer Experience at FairVine …

In this week’s expert investor interview we speak to Marcus Padley, the founder of Marcus Today and a market veteran with over 30 years experience. Marcus founded Marcus Today because of his frustration with the ignorance of everyday investors, which drove him to create his independent stock market research and insights newsletter. In this interview Marcus unpacks the lessons he’s …

Andrew Page has worked in the financial markets for over 20 years, with experience as an equities analyst and market commentator, having worked at CommSec, The Motley Fool, and Team Invest. He is a passionate private investor, and the founder and Managing Director of Strawman.com. Andrew is a very disciplined value investor, with a ton of experience, so we asked …

For the third in 2020 we got Andrew Brown – Executive Director of East72 Holdings – back into the studio to help us understand what’s going on in markets since the collapse in March and subsequent rally since. Within the Equity Mates community, there has been a lot of discussion as to why the markets are rallying, yet the underlying …

Based in the US, Jesse Felder co-founded a multi-billion dollar hedge fund and is now prolific on financial twitter and publishes The Felder Report. Last time Jesse was on the podcast he offered insights into a variety of different asset classes. So when we wanted to understand what was happening across different asset classes in this current coronavirus shutdown, we …

Meb Faber is the founder and chief investment officer of Cambria Investment Management. He looks after Cambria’s ETFs and private investment funds. Meb graduated from the University of Virginia with a double major in Engineering Science and Biology, and he also runs a popular share market and investing blog – mebfaber.com We’ve been following a lot of Meb’s writing, and …

Markets are falling right across the world, and for some of the Equity Mates community, it would be the first time experiencing a significant market correction. There are a lot of emotions and questions to deal with when this happens, so we’re checking in with two experts and friends of the show, to help us navigate these tricky (and exciting!) …

In this episode we speak to regular guest Matt Leibowitz, the co-founder of online brokerage platform Stake. To kick off 2020, we ask, ‘what’s hot and what’s not?’ in financial markets. Nothing has had a hotter start to the year than Tesla, and we discuss the electric car stock in this episode. We also continue our work making bold predictions …

Post-GFC index investing, through ETFs, has become very popular and it’s something we speak a lot about on the show. There has also been a lot of chat about ‘the age of active management being over’. However, we believe there is certainly a strong role that active management can play in your portfolio, and by popular demand from our community, …

We’re a big fan of starting the year with some bold predictions. So much so, that we asked friend of the show and expert investor Andrew Brown, Executive Director of East 72 Holdings, to join us to make some of his own. In this episode learn why Andrew predicts: Australia will be in recession by end of 2020 There will …