Kanish Chugh

But what I would say is,

For an investor looking at megatrends or thinking, how is the world going to be disrupted and where are we going to end up being in 2015?

How can I take advantage of that?

Well, then for me, this is exciting because it gives people exposure to things

what the future could look like and benefiting from a financial standpoint as well from that development.

So that, for me, is the exciting part.

But it is quite hard to pick just one ETF, but it is exciting to have a range of options, you know, from gold to, you know, the thematics to yield to emerging markets, et cetera, within the range.

Yeah, looking forward to it.

No, thank you, Alan.

So, yeah, so my name's obviously Kinesh Chirga.

I'm head of distribution for ETF Securities.

Now, I guess I've been part of the asset management industry, give or take nearly a decade now, but, you know, really part of the ETF Securities business for five years.

And essentially my role is to look after the sales and marketing, so distribution as we call it, looking at, you know, retail, institutional and the advised area and really covering our ETFs, which

A lot of people don't know, and I know it was probably covered in a previous podcast, but we're the second oldest in Australia.

So we've been around since 2003.

But we're most well known for our gold ETF, physical gold, so G-O-L-D.

And more recently in the past five years, we've tried to sort of broaden out into different asset classes, looking at equities, international, domestic, thematics and sectors, which obviously today we're talking about the thematic area.

Yes, I think the best way to think about thematic investing is how you would normally approach sector investing.

Now, the reason why I say that is, you know, with the evolution of the ETF market, you're now able to target specific themes.

Previously, you know, 10 years ago, 20 years