Series: Expert Investors

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.

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.

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.

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?

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:

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.

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 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

In this episode we're joined by Jessica Amir - a market analyst and presenter at Bell Direct.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

At Equity Mates, we hate fees. This makes us big fans of any company looking to reduce the cost of investing for everyday investors. Which is why we were excited to get the Managing Director of eToro Australia, Robert Francis, on the podcast.

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.

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.

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.