On this episode, we talk to Mary Manning. She’s a Portfolio Manager at Ellerston Capital for the Ellerston Asian Growth Fund, Ellerston Asian Investments (ASX:EAI) and the Ellerston India Fund. Prior to joining Ellerston, Mary spent 5 years at Oaktree Capital Management, the famous firm co-founded by Howard Marks. Mary has a MBA from Harvard and a PhD in Economics …

Bill is the CEO and co-founder of Hermitage Capital Management, which at one time was the largest foreign portfolio investor in Russia, and in 1997 was the best performing fund in the world – up 238%! Bill was the driving force behind the Magnitsky Act, a law to punish Russian human rights violators, which was signed into law by President …

In this episode, Alec and Bryce chat to Ben Gisz, who’s the co-founder of TDM Growth Partners. Ben, along with co-founders Hamish Corlette and Tom Cowan, has grown TDM’s assets under management from $1 million to over $1 billion. Ben is also a non-executive director in Pacific Smiles (ASX: PSQ), one of TDM’s portfolio companies. In this conversation Ben talks …

Alex Saunders has been immersed in cryptocurrency since discovering Bitcoin in 2012. He’s a unique investment style that combines fundamental analysis, technical analysis and market sentiment as key drivers in decision making. Alex’s passion led him to leave his successful career as a head pharmacist in 2017, to found Nugget’s News. Alex is a trusted voice in the Australian crypto …

Tom Millner is a Director and Portfolio Manager at Contact Asset Management. Tom has 17 years experience in markets, was CEO of BKI Investment Company between 2008 and 2016. In that time he grew total assets from $440m to $1 billion. As well as his work at Contact Asset Management, Tom is also a director of Washington H Soul Pattinson …

Here at Equity Mates, we love finding up and coming Australian fund managers that have interesting perspectives and different approaches to markets. In this episode we speak to Michael Frazis, portfolio manager of Frazis Capital Partners, who certainly fits that description. Michael has just come off an incredible year in 2020, beating his benchmark index by more than 100%! In …

In this episode, Alec and Bryce are joined by Hamish Douglass – the Chairman, CIO and Lead Portfolio Manager at Magellan Financial Group, a fund manager he co-founded with Chris Mackay in 2006. Hamish is (in our opinion) the best investor in Australia today and amongst everything else is a fellow podcaster, hosting Magellan’s In The Know podcast. ***** Make …

Charlie is a Partner at Pitcher Partners, providing financial advisory and wealth services to high net worth and ultra-high net worth individuals. Specialising in ongoing investment management and administrative services, Charlie’s is personally responsible for over $1.5 billion of funds. His expertise and client outcomes was recognised by Barrons when he received the accolade of the No. 1 Adviser in …

In today’s expert chat, we sit down with Emma Fisher, who’s a Portfolio Manager and Head of Research at Airlie Funds Management. She co-manages the Airlie Australian Share Fund (ASX: AASF). As always, we’ve got our regular questions, like what she thinks is overrated, what’s underrated, what her first investment is, and her personal investment strategy. We loved this interview, and …

Qiao is the Portfolio Manager of the Asian Equities Fund at Cooper Investors, an Australian-based, long-only investment manager with over $12 billion assets under management.  Prior to starting at Cooper in 2017, Qiao spent several years investing in the technology and consumer sectors across Asia and the US.  She worked at Lehman Brothers, Coatue Management and was Head of Asia …

This episode is a ‘must-listen’. Hamish Corlett is a co-founder of TDM Growth Partners and serves on the Board of Directors of ASX-listed SomnoMed and Tyro Payments. He has significant experience in developing fast-growing software and FinTech businesses. Along with co-founders Tom Cowan and Ben Gisz, Hamish has overseen TDM’s incredible track record, delivering 20%+ returns over the past 15 …

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 …