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Kanish Chugh

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Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So yeah, that's about to get actually released in the next few weeks as well.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

Yeah.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So I guess there's two points.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

One, it's as a provider, it's our responsibility really to make sure that we choose the right index.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So in that product,

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

we want to target this thematic of robotics and automation artificial intelligence you know there was a few different index choices that we had available um we chose robo global in this case because we felt it was the best representation to target this theme it was one that you know we talked about active and having analysts etc the actual robo global index has a team of analysts

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

They have a research team underlying that create this universe and identify these different themes.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

You know, they actually rely upon, I think it's about 10 or 15 robo strategic advisors.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

And these advisors are people like, you know, Daniela Roos, who basically heads up the robotics

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

area at MIT, or the founder of the Kiva system.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

And the Kiva system is what is now Amazon Robotics.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So that's Rafael D'Andrea.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So he's now, I think, part of a think tank out in Europe.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

And he's producing robots that can play table tennis with each other.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

But these people are at the cutting edge of essentially this area.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

And they're identifying and feeding back into the analysts and the research team for RoboGlobal

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

What is the next area that needs to be considered or say within 3D printing?

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

They should be looking at not retail 3D printing, but commercial 3D printing because that is where the most developments are being made in terms of that automation side or artificial intelligence side.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So they're able to leverage that expertise.

Australian Finance Podcast
Thematic Investing in Australia & Your ETF Questions Answered

So for us, it was a case of, well, we don't want to just pick up something off the shelf.