James Kirby

Hello, welcome to the Australian's Money Puzzle podcast.

I'm James Kirby.

Welcome aboard, everybody.

Well, this is our last podcast before the federal budget.

And I wanted to do this for a while, which is to have a special episode on ETFs, exchange traded funds.

And the biggest player in the market is Vanguard.

And the CEO of Vanguard Australia is Daniel Shimsky.

And he's my guest today.

How are you, Daniel?

Good.

Thanks for having me, James.

Nice to have you on the show.

We have so many questions about ETFs.

They roll in all the time and I think they have become very important to our listener base.

ETFs as a core probably most of the time of their portfolios.

And I think secondly, as an access point, if you like, to other markets where once upon a time it was very difficult, obviously, apart from buying managed funds, like whatever was around at the time, Perpetual, Platinum, Magellan.

These days, just as easily people will buy an ETF and that's how they take their...

original sort of excursion into global markets, particularly the US.

I'm just looking at the Vanguard suite of ETFs and they are, in terms of the money that goes into them, they're the biggest players in our local market by far.

You've