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

And I do want to say that it takes a particular person because share markets typically go up.

So if you're willing to take that exposure and you're actually willing to take a short exposure, which is a pretty uncomfortable thing to do.

And in many ways, you have to be sort of know what you're doing.

The point is, if you do want to take that exposure, it's actually been very, very hard to do that as an individual investor without these funds.

And importantly, they don't involve any margin calls.

So people may be familiar or may not be familiar with the fact that sometimes when you go short using other methods,

you can lose more than you put in.

That does not happen in these funds.

And they can be bought and sold like any share.

So it's a very accessible way to do it.

But I will continue to say that markets typically go up.

And so short-term investing in short exposures is one thing.

But long-term hold, outside of using it for a hedging purpose, would be something that very few people would be able to withstand.

Yeah, so I suppose the importance of having a broadly diversified range of ETFs now available on the Australian Stock Exchange is that people can construct diversified portfolios.

And when you get a little bit more able to understand investing, doing that is really a very clever thing to do because markets typically don't all move in the same direction.

So it's not common.

And now we're dealing with a very uncommon situation, but it's not common for bonds to fall when share markets rise and vice versa, or rather more likely the case, it's reasonably common for bonds to rise in value when share markets fall in value.

So that's the idea of diversification.

Of course, within bonds, there's all different types of bonds.

I think what you're talking about in terms of the credit market, this is essentially corporate bonds.

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