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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Australia comes up
Roadmap for Private Credit from Australia – Frank Danieli of MA Financial Group (EP.511)
- ▶ 1:58 Ted Seides Our conversation discusses what global investors can learn from the model of private credit in Australia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:33 Frank Danieli Global firm listed on the New York Stock Exchange, and the local Australian staff, which is today MA Financial Group listed on the ASX. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:42 Frank Danieli The Australian market historically was a very concentrated banking market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:34 Frank Danieli In Australia, there is a pension system called superannuation. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:37 Frank Danieli That financial infrastructure business, not only a source of access, but a huge source of data, intelligence, lifetime access of what's happening in the markets, touches 350,000 customers in the Australian economy.
- ▶ 13:29 Frank Danieli It was in regional parts of Australia.
- ▶ 23:18 Frank Danieli One of the early acquisitions we made in that space was a small non-bank mortgage lender in Australia. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:26 Frank Danieli We're all for Australia, Asia. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:02 Ted Seides If you turn from thinking about risks to the opportunity set, how do you look at the opportunity set in Australia, in the rest of Asia, and the rest of the world? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:00 Frank Danieli That phenomenon for us operates in Australia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:42 Frank Danieli There's noise in the US and in other parts of the market, including Australia.
- ▶ 47:57 Frank Danieli Guy in Australia was a place called Cole's Music House, and he had this interesting model where he'd teach people from kids to seniors based on pop songs, songs that were out there right now to make it fun, and he used intuitive methods. 3 times in the scene
Contrarian Quality at GQG Partners – Rajiv Jain (EP.505)
- ▶ 56:32 Rajiv Jain From Australia to Europe to other places, because the whole notion that we have great track record and people will come, that doesn't work that way.
- ▶ 59:11 Rajiv Jain Why Australia? 4 times in the scene
Rodney Comegys – The Mechanics of Indexing at Vanguard (EP.498)
- ▶ 28:16 Rodney Comegys I have a team that reports to me in Australia that cares as much about 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:10 Rodney Comegys We're running Australian and UK.
- ▶ 50:29 Rodney Comegys My family and I had a chance to move to Australia for three years where I ran the investment team.
Stephen Gilmore – CalPERS' Total Portfolio Approach (EP.486)
- ▶ 2:07 Ted Seides Our conversation dives into the theory and implementation of the total portfolio approach, drawing on Stephen's experience at Australia and New Zealand and his plans for CalPERS.
- ▶ 8:34 Stephen Gilmore I was an emerging market strategist, then went across to AIGFP, was there for a while, then off to Future Fund in Australia, New Zealand Super, and now Kelpers.
- ▶ 11:45 Ted Seides What led you to make the move from Wall Street to Australia's future? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:23 Ted Seides As you're getting ready to figure out how you're going to make these comparisons, love to hear in your time at New Zealand or in your time in Australia, what was an example of comparing that common illiquidity premium that you would want… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:01 Ted Seides The governance boards, guardians, New Zealand, Australia, are thought of as very sophisticated investment pools of capital. 2 times in the scene
Brendan O'Connor – Alpha Opportunities in Australia at Regal Partners (EP.485)
- ▶ 0:00 Brendan O'Connor Australia uniquely provides a very idiosyncratic return series that is diversifying to what you'd find elsewhere. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:27 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Brendan O'Connor, the CEO of Regal Partners, a premier alternatives manager in Australia with twenty-one billion Aussie dollars of funds under management across hedge funds, credit and royalties, real and… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:39 Brendan O'Connor I was born in regional Australia in a little town called Lithgow, the other side of the Blue Mountains, the youngest of seven children. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:00 Brendan O'Connor I looked at Australia, and Australia had made some very significant micro and macroeconomic reforms through the 19 eighties that ultimately spurned a great evolution of the finance industry. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:00 Brendan O'Connor I became increasingly curious about them, and I applied for a job at Westpac, one of the big four banks, Australia's oldest bank. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:09 Brendan O'Connor On one side, it had assets that it invested in across real estate, equities, fixed income, infrastructure, private equity, and on the liability side were fixed rate, fixed term annuities to Australian retirees.
- ▶ 15:17 Ted Seides The history is very heavily focused on the Australian market and would love to hear the basic case for why invest in Australia. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:29 Brendan O'Connor Australia uniquely provides a very idiosyncratic return series that is diversifying to what you'd find elsewhere. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:13 Brendan O'Connor Australia has been blessed with an abundance of resources and minerals, including critical minerals. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:48 Brendan O'Connor The fourth category, which is we're the largest pre IPO investor for companies in Australia.
- ▶ 28:07 Brendan O'Connor Australia has developed an explosive financial services sector over the last 3040 years, basically the bulk of my career. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:02 Brendan O'Connor The Australian market has a voracious appetite for the providing of debt to property. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 39:09 Brendan O'Connor The other area, which is uniquely Australia, is what I'd call natural assets in Australia. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 41:04 Ted Seides As you've developed this range of strategies and capabilities across alternative assets, all focused in Australia, as an investor comes to you and they're interested in getting exposure to the benefits of the Australian economy, the wave… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 42:43 Brendan O'Connor Not just in Australia, but around the world. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 46:36 Ted Seides As you've grown the firm thus far, why have you selected the particular strategies you did to implement on that opportunity in Australia? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 51:20 Brendan O'Connor By being a large asset management business in Australia, we'd always had a profile, but that profile, particularly through the press, seems to have amplified now that we're also a public company.
- ▶ 56:13 Brendan O'Connor A far more highly recognized brand of best in class, active management capability located in Australia. 2 times in the scene
Jonathan Lewinsohn – Credit Microcycles at Diameter (EP.484)
- ▶ 50:12 Jonathan Lewinsohn There's a great study that Australia, their Medicare system, which is universal healthcare, they did an experiment where they said, if people just have to pay one or two dollars for prescriptions, what does it do to utilization?
Nick Rohatyn – Emerging Markets Multi-Asset Investing at TRG (EP.482)
- ▶ 1:01:11 Nick Rohatyn Two-thirds US plus Australia and New Zealand.
Ashby Monk – Total Portfolio Approach and the Future of Asset Owners (EP.480)
- ▶ 7:29 Ashby Monk They are integrated into so much policymaking from Saudi Arabia to United States to Australia.
- ▶ 37:42 Ashby Monk There's now the big eight Australian super funds.
- ▶ 49:59 Ashby Monk That's not quite true in a place like Canada or even Australia, where those funds play an outsized role in the capital markets.
CIO Greatest Hits: Sovereign Wealth Funds – Raphael Arndt (Australia Future Fund)
- ▶ 7:09 Raphael Arndt And then came back to Australia and decided that the future career in engineering while it was there for me was probably not stimulating enough compared to what I was interested in. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:39 Raphael Arndt So in the early 2000, Australia had benefited from some degree of the resource boom.
- ▶ 17:42 Raphael Arndt And so we try to bring those things together by, by having a small team of 60 investors all in one office here in Melbourne, Australia.
- ▶ 27:39 Raphael Arndt And that's roughly about half developed market equities and a quarter each of emerging market in Australian equities. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:00 Raphael Arndt We suffer, like many Australians, from a very volatile currency, and so it also tends to be correlated with risk, or more particularly risk-off scenarios, so that as someone with a large global portfolio, we have to worry about liquidity… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:10:23 Ted Seides What do you think are the core differences between a US based kind of US focused investor and an Aussie based investor? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:19:02 Raphael Arndt So that's the, the insight we bring, and in the case of infrastructure, a few years ago, we actually, so I said we only invest through external managers, that is true, but there was an opportunity in Australia to buy some domestic airports… 3 times in the scene
Eric Mogelof – KKR's Pivot to Private Wealth (Private Wealth 3, EP.446)
- ▶ 28:56 Eric Mogelof We have folks sitting in London, in Zurich, in Hong Kong, Singapore, Tokyo, Australia.
James Clarke – Building Enduring Partnerships at Blue Owl (EP.445)
- ▶ 3:16 James Clark My parents made the right decision that at the time we should leave, and we went to Australia with about 81,000 other South Africans in 1980. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:20 James Clark I've been to Australia twice this year.
- ▶ 33:35 James Clark How we operate in Australia is very different to Europe, is very different to the Middle East, is very different to North America and Canada.
- ▶ 36:22 James Clark I can tell you in Australia, there is a building where there are about three or four super funds in it. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:55 James Clark Australia is a growth market. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 53:17 James Clark I miss Australia dearly, but I would say being here and also being in finance.
Eric Peters - Paradigm Shifts and Solutions at One River (EP.422)
- ▶ 23:44 Eric Peters Now, what was funny is we were in Australia speaking with a big client
Scott Bessent - Macro Maven (EP.415)
- ▶ 23:09 Scott Bessent Someone say, I've got this great idea in Australia.
Matt Miller – Crossing the Energy Divide at Grey Rock (EP.412)
- ▶ 48:46 Matt Miller 99.9% of the world's lithium reserves are in the hands of just four countries, China, Chile, Argentina, Australia, none of which are the United States.
Jase Auby - Risk, Size, and Talent at Texas Teachers (EP.404)
Todd Simkin - Game of Trading at Susquehanna (EP.399)
- ▶ 15:38 Todd Simkin Another operation that we started at about the same time in Sydney, Australia for trading Australian markets and Southeast Asia.
Training Grounds: Bain Capital, John Connaughton (EP.395)
- ▶ 22:35 John Connaughton We've had the same country managers in Japan, in China, in India, Korea, and Australia from the very beginning, and we've been there for 20 plus years, whereas I think our industry has just found they bring
Anne-Marie Fink - Cutting Edge Pension Investing at SWIB (EP.389)
- ▶ 56:46 Anne-Marie Fink I have loved Australia, have loved Japan, China, Europe, Africa, a little bit of everything.
Blythe Masters - Fintech Innovation at Motive Partners (EP.376)
- ▶ 30:50 Blythe Masters And I then took a year off having spent a lot of time traveling the world, did a lot of business in Australia, Hong Kong, Western Europe, whilst being based in New York.
Mike Freno – Confident Humility at Barings (EP.374)
- ▶ 21:20 Mike Freno We've just done two of them down in Australia.
Magnus Grimeland – Day Zero Investing at Antler (EP.369)
- ▶ 13:43 Magnus Grimeland I stayed on for two years as chief operating officer of that group, which operated across 27 countries in South America, Europe and Asia and Australia.
- ▶ 34:41 Magnus Grimeland We try that out in Australia and Africa, a few other places.
Raphael Arndt – The Death of Traditional Portfolio Construction? (EP.365)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Raf Arndt, the CEO of The Future Fund, Australia's two hundred billion Aussie dollar sovereign wealth fund that his team manages alongside fifty five billion Aussie dollars of other sovereign pools of capital.
- ▶ 9:21 Raphael Arndt Just long-term trends, secular cycles, and things like that, and then when COVID happened, I am in Melbourne in Australia, and unfortunately that was one of the cities that was locked down the most in the world, and most of our staff are…
- ▶ 19:41 Raphael Arndt And so, for example, we started to great fanfare and interest in Australian equity small cap strategy earlier this year.
- ▶ 37:27 Raphael Arndt The book we did on the 15 year history of the fund, I felt that was really important, not just to mark an important occasion and a creation of a new institution for Australia, but also because really the audience for me was future staff.
- ▶ 40:50 Raphael Arndt We don't just invest the Future Fund, which helps strengthen the Commonwealth Government's balance sheet and help to support the economy through COVID, but we also manage the Medical Research Future Fund that funds about a third of medical…
- ▶ 52:03 Raphael Arndt Unlisted infrastructure boutique in Australia backed me to come in and learn how to invest, really. 2 times in the scene
George Michelakis – Chess Master's Approach to Long-Short Equity at Gladstone (EP.362)
- ▶ 26:29 George Mikulakis And then I grew up in South Africa, so that tends to be a market I play in, and I lived in Australia, so that tends to be a country we do things. 2 times in the scene
Isaac Corre – Event-Driven Investing at Governors Lane (EP.344)
- ▶ 11:07 Isaac Corre And I suddenly discovered that I was responsible for Australia as well, which didn't
Sonya Sawtell-Rickson – Total Portfolio Approach at Australian Superannuation HESTA (EP.342)
- ▶ 4:25 Ted Seides My guest on today's show is Sonia Sotel-Rixon, the chief investment officer of Australian superannuation fund HESTA, a seventy-five billion Aussie dollar pool dedicated to health and community service workers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:22 Ted Seides What was the early setup in your pension experience in Australia? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:33 Ted Seides What were the aspects of change in the structure of portfolios from that sort of early nascent days to where we are today in Australia? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 13:04 Sonya Sawtell-Rickson We have over a million Australians as members.
- ▶ 17:17 Sonya Sawtell-Rickson So obviously we are committed, and we were one of the first major funds in Australia to commit to net zero by 20 50.
- ▶ 46:27 Sonya Sawtell-Rickson COVID was interesting for Australian superannuation funds because not only were we dealing with all of the financial market challenge, at the same time we had the government coming out and announcing that people could take money out of… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 55:42 Sonya Sawtell-Rickson Here in Australia, we've been strong supporters of the 30% Club, 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 57:35 Sonya Sawtell-Rickson The superannuation industry in Australia is definitely a competitive industry. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:01:13 Sonya Sawtell-Rickson I think we're working significantly on affordable housing here in Australia. 3 times in the scene
Muthu Muthiah - Inefficiency and Innovation at CHOA (EP. 339)
- ▶ 6:26 Muthu Muthiah I was born in India, and then when I was about three, we moved as a family to Australia, and then to Papua New Guinea, and then I moved back to India in grade level in 12 and went to college there.
Adam Karr – Extreme Alignment at Orbis (EP.338)
Sachin Khajuria and Brendan Ballou – Private Equity: Profit or Plunder? (EP.331)
- ▶ 46:00 Sachin Khajuria We're going to manage ourselves in our direct investment team, whether we're based in Abu Dhabi or in Qatar or in Canada or Australia, wherever.
James Aitken – Opportunities and Risks from Monetary Policy (EP.326)
- ▶ 5:18 Ted Seides We close with James's thoughts on his home country of Australia, and for the first time,
- ▶ 53:20 Ted Seides James, we could easily land the plane there, but I'm curious if we should bring it home by bringing you back home, because among the non-consensus things we've discussed, you've been thinking and talking more about Australia of late, and…
Porter Collins and Vincent Daniel - Big Shorts and Big Longs (Capital Allocators, EP.325)
- ▶ 40:28 Porter Collins Look at inflation in the UK or Australia.
Eric Resnick – Ski, Golf, and Vacation Investing at KSL (EP.322)
- ▶ 40:43 Eric Resnick You're in the middle of nature, whether it's in British Columbia, on the inlets from the Pacific Ocean, or in the outback of Australia, or outside a national park in the U.S.
- ▶ 52:23 Eric Resnick They didn't decide they wanted to have experience in Europe or Australia or Thailand or Chile, wherever it might be.
Ashby Monk – Investor Identity, Navigation, and Resilience (Capital Allocators, EP.312)
- ▶ 41:06 Ashby Monk Pervasive from Australia to Abu Dhabi to Sweden. 2 times in the scene
Brian Philpot – Financing Farmers at AgAmerica (Capital Allocators, EP. 296)
- ▶ 32:28 Brian Philpot Australia has drought issues, and as we, we enter into an era of a warmer planet,
Sachin Khajuria – Two and Twenty, An Insider's Take on Private Equity (Capital Allocators, EP.285)
- ▶ 31:51 Sachin Khajuria The folks in Australia had this idea to do infrastructure, toll roads, 2 times in the scene
Thomas Majewski – Empty Rooms: Masterclass on CLOs at Eagle Point Credit Management (Capital Allocators, EP. 284)
- ▶ 24:52 Tom Majewski And I was working on with some Australian investors at the time, their superannuation program there, which is for Americans, we would call it mandatory for one K.
Colin Smith and Farouk Miah - Empty Rooms: Investing in Africa (Capital Allocators, EP. 279)
- ▶ 1:06:22 Farouk Miah If you want to have global domination, you need to build a factory in Australia, a factory in India, and, but with these kind of asset-like tech businesses, you could be in a small office in New York and have complete domination throughout… 2 times in the scene
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