Ilan Israelstam

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Australian Finance Podcast · What the ASX sell-off means for ETF investors ft. BetaShares Co-founder Ilan Israelstam · 23 Mar 2020 podcast

It's my pleasure.

Thanks for having me, Owen.

Yeah, that's right.

So my name's Ilan.

I am indeed one of the co-founders of a company by the name of BetaShares ETFs.

So we're one of Australia's largest ETF companies.

I'm also the principal of an Australian investment company, which is called Apex Capital Partners.

And we come on to BetaShares in a minute, but Apex Capital Partners invests in early stage financial services, fintech businesses.

As to BetaShares itself, so BetaShares runs one of the largest suite of ETF funds in Australia.

We have 61 exchange traded products, total funds under management of around $10 billion.

And so those are funds that are all able to be bought and sold on the ASX like a share.

So that means that there's no paperwork required to invest in them.

There's no minimum investment beyond what a broker might add to your investment.

And it provides exposure to all sorts of things, asset classes, strategies, et cetera, which we'll probably talk about.

So I imagine a number of your listeners and viewers would be familiar with ETFs and Zabita Shares is one of the larger players in the Australian space.

Yeah, I mean, that's the thing about ETFs is that there's two parts of the ETF value, isn't there?

There's the actual value of the underlying assets.

So the industry is made up by the value of the underlying assets that we aim to track, and then also how much people are investing.

So when we talk about how the ETF industry is going on a month-by-month, on a year-by-year basis, we're taking into account not only whether the markets or the assets have risen or fallen, but also whether people have put money in.

And so, yeah, February was a scenario where

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