Success and More Interesting Stuff
Episodes
Dr Don Hamson: The pivot that built a $25bn business
06 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we sit down with Dr Don Hamson, founder of Plato Investment Management. Hamson built a $25 bill...
Why Jillian Broadbent believes reform, not rhetoric, will drive Australia forward
03 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Jillian Broadbent has worked at the heart of Australia’s financial and policy institutions for decades. She began at the Reserve Bank under Nugget C...
This ain’t junk! Why GYG’s Steven Marks refuses to compromise on quality
02 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Guzman y Gomez Founder & co-CEO Steven Marks joins Matthew Kidman to discuss his decision to leave Wall Street, the tough early years building GYG...
Gold, AI and the risks investors can’t ignore heading into 2026
16 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
To mark the 50th episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, Matthew Kidman is joined by Chris Judd, Jun Bei Liu and Dr Shane Oliver for a panel di...
Mark Landau's best investment decision
11 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Landau’s best investment decision wasn’t a stock pick — it was meeting his future business partner, Rafi Lamm. Together they built L1 Capit...
Alexis George: Rebuilding AMP
06 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
From small-town Bega to the boardrooms of London and Hong Kong, Alexis George built a global career before taking on one of the toughest jobs in Austr...
Viktor Shvets: The end of cycles and the cost of progress
16 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Viktor Shvets on the end of cycles, the rise of the cloud of finance, and why politics may now be the greatest market risk. At Livewire Live 2025, Vi...
Paul Moore: The only true arbitrage in markets is time
01 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Four decades into his career, Paul Moore seems to be just getting started. Two years ago, he made the bold decision to vend his business, PM Capital, ...
Simon Conn’s guide to surviving the small cap 'torture chamber'
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The professional investment game is relentless. No matter where you are in the world, you cannot escape the endless procession of markets. Sure, you c...
Nick Griffin on finding stocks that can double earnings in 5 years
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Griffin’s path to fund management may have seemed preordained, his father worked in the industry, but his journey has been anything but ordinar...
Jake Klein: The West is ill-prepared for what lies ahead and the gold price reflects this
02 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Klein left a high-flying banking career to chase a hunch about gold, and it paid off in spades. From pioneering mining ventures in China to build...
How Fidelity’s Paul Taylor stays ahead of the market
09 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We're often told that beating the market over the long term is impossible. A lucky year or two? Maybe. But doing it for more than two decades? That’...
Bob Desmond: Patiently picking the eyes out of quality global growth stocks
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Go back 20 years and consensus said that managing international equity portfolios from Australia was just too difficult. Bob Desmond and his team a...
Dr Philip Lowe: Interest rates alone can’t conquer Australia’s cost of living crisis
03 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Australia is obsessed with interest rates like no other country, and it is distracting us from tackling more pressing challenges, like productivity, t...
Inside Chris Corrigan's fierce battle to reform the Australian waterfront
03 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Corrigan has had his fingerprints all over corporate Australia for more than 50 years now. The boy from Bowral joined stockbroking firm Ord Minn...
Success and More Interesting Stuff is back in 2025
06 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Success and More Interesting Stuff is back in 2025 with new episodes being released on the first Tuesday of each month. We're excited for the year ahe...
How Joe Aston went from the back page to bestseller
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Welcome to the final episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff for 2024. In this episode, we’re closing out the year with a guest who knows ho...
Inside Barry Irvin's fight for Bega and his life
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bega Cheese turned 125 this year. It started as the Bega Co-operative Creamery Company in 1999, and for over a century, things were pretty quiet. That...
Former Wallaby David Lyons' game-changing investments in Ag
09 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
David Lyons has travelled around the world chasing a rugby ball. From the time he started to take the game seriously as a 15-year-old he was earmarked...
The former rugby league player who now runs a $1.5 billion business
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sometimes, misfortune can lead to opportunity. Wes Maas was an aspiring young rugby league player trying to establish himself in the NRL. The kid fr...
No shortcuts! How Ian Macoun built a $100 billion funds management behemoth
07 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is rare for a person to spend the first half of their working life in the public service and then pivot to build a multi-billion dollar financial b...
Hungry for profit, patient for growth: Bellroy’s motto for sustainable growth
09 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Traditionally, on the show, we talk to people involved in some shape or form with the share market. Today, we are excitedly going off-piste and delvin...
Meet the small company prospector who unearthed gems like Afterpay and Bellamy’s
21 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Stockbroking is a dangerous game. Investors depend on your advice, but the smallest slip-up can see the relationship turn nasty. As a result, most bro...
How WiseTech's Richard White built a 26-bagger growth darling
28 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Richard White always wanted to be a rockstar. He was still young when it dawned upon him that it might be more profitable and realistic to become a te...
Alex Vynokur bet his house on ETFs now his firm is challenging the global behemoths of index investing
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A revolution has taken place in share investing since the turn of the century. American firms have led the charge with the likes of Vanguard and Black...
Australia has 12 million empty bedrooms... So could this company crack the housing crisis code?
05 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Affordable housing seems to be an elusive goal in Australia. However, Lifestyle Communities (ASX: LIC), which is celebrating its 21st birthday in 2024...
Kerr Neilson: This opportunity will drive the next decade of growth
13 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the last four years, Success and More Interesting Stuff has been privileged to host some of the legends of the Australian equity market. Arguably...
How Olev Rahn helped Bankers Trust survive the 1987 crash (and how he sees markets in 2024)
17 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In 1987, Olev Rahn was pounding the streets of New York's financial district, meeting with Wall Street's best strategists. Rahn, who was running BT Fi...
How ’The Speculator’s Diary’ got Ben Griffiths got hooked on small caps (and why he thinks we’re in a ’pause rally’)
18 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every year, fund manager Eley Griffiths invites stockbrokers from across the country to a lavish dinner. In the cutthroat world of the share market,...
Graham ‘Skroo’ Turner shares the highs and lows of Flight Centre and his 50 years in travel
06 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Graham "Skroo" Turner grew up in splendid isolation. His family owned an orchard in Southeast Queensland, and he rode a pushbike to school, which was ...
The CEO who kicked the incumbents to the curb (and delivered investors a +4000% return in the process)
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's been just over a decade since Andrew Alcock took a risk on a small up-and-coming investment platform. The gamble has certainly paid off. Since jo...
Stick to your knitting: Anton Tagliaferro’s secret to high conviction investing
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Anton Tagliaferro grew up in Malta, playing football and studying with the dream of someday becoming a doctor. This was pushed aside, however, when po...
Meet the man who turned Nick Scali into a 10-bagger
10 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Nick Scali is a furniture powerhouse. Since listing in May 2004, the store count has grown from 10 to 107 without having to tap shareholders for addit...
“It was horrific.” How Robert Kelly overcame adversity to build a $6 billion business
25 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
By the time most people reach their mid-forties, they are thinking about an exit strategy for their working life. That was not the case for Robert Kel...
Trailer: “It was horrific.” How Robert Kelly overcame adversity to build a $6 billion business
24 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The latest episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff introduces one of the most enterprising and successful people on the corporate landscape. Rob...
Breaking big stories: Tony Boyd’s Chanticleer playbook
18 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have a treat for you today. Historically the show has focused on outstanding investors and leading executives. Today, we are delving into the other...
25 years and counting: How this “market animal” has consistently beaten the market
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
It's been 25 years since the first days of Ausbil Investment Management, and Executive Chairman, CIO and Head of Equities Paul Xiradis is still one o...
Meet Paul Xiradis: Chief Investment Officer and Head of Equities at one of Bridge Street’s most famous money managers
22 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For 25 years, Paul Xiradis has been the CIO and Head of Equities at one of Bridge Street’s most famous money managers - Ausbil Investment Management...
How Dawn Kanelleas perfected the science of small-cap investing
17 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dawn Kanelleas has always been academically competitive. The daughter of socially progressive Greek immigrants, she knew, even from a young age, that...
Meet Dawn Kanelleas: The small cap investor who thrives on competition
15 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If I asked you to describe the background of a professional investor, I’m willing to bet you would not have picked someone who has a PhD in chemistr...
The boy from Adelaide who rescued Australia’s failing property sector
10 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The Australian commercial property sector was in a mess in the mid-1990s. The industry was stuck in illiquid structures and investors were unable to w...
Meet: Andrew Pridham - real estate guru, serial entrepreneur, author and Chairman of the Sydney Swans
08 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Not many investment bankers can claim to have a Wikipedia profile, but Andrew Pridham can. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Pridham has covere...
Maggie Beer’s recipe for turning passion (and paté) into profit
02 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
How’s this for an honours list? Winner of the Gourmet Traveller Restaurant of the Year Senior Australian of the Year Honorary Doctorate from the Uni...
Meet Maggie Beer - she has an incredible story to tell
30 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Cooking from the heart is the humble and simple philosophy of one of Australia’s most well-known personalities. In a career spanning four decades - ...
Leo Barry was a star of ”the big dance”, now he’s making a mark in small caps
26 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Leo Barry was everywhere during AFL Grand Final week this year. With a Sydney Swans scarf draped around his neck, you could be mistaken for thinking h...
Meet Leo Barry and his passion for sport and small caps
23 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The full episode comes out on Wednesday 28th December.
The man trusted by Kerry Packer, Solomon Lew and Barbra Streisand (yep, seriously!) for stock market guidance
20 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Even after 55 years as a stockbroker, Brent Potts is still going strong. Every day, Potts arrives at his desk to talk to the smartest investors around...
Meet legendary stockbroker Brent Potts
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Brent Potts is a legend of the Australian stockbroking industry and after 55 years he is still going strong. Potts has seen just about everything in t...
How Domino’s boss Don Meij built a $5.7bn global pizza powerhouse from the suburbs of Brisbane
13 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
None of it really makes sense. A young man from Queensland teaching the world about Pizzas. Don Meij was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, moving aroun...
Trailer: Meet Don Meij, the delivery driver behind Domino’s rise to the top
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
The full interview with the Don Meij the founder and Managing Director of Domino’s Pizzas goes live on the 13th of December 2022. Here’s a taste o...
Introducing Season 3 of Success and More Interesting Stuff!
09 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Success and More Interesting Stuff is back for its third and best season ever. Kicking off on December 13 and running through to January 24 the series...
Morgan: History is rhyming (and it could be bad for stocks)
08 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this final episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we turn back the clock and talk to legendary fund manager Peter Morgan. Peter was a 'mast...
Jun Bei Liu’s extraordinary journey
21 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jun Bei Liu landed in Australia as a 16-year-old without a social or business network and very little English. From this humble beginning she has work...
Chris Judd’s lonely pursuit of market beating returns
14 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we speak to AFL legend Chris Judd, a former star of the midfield for West Coast Eagles and Carl...
An overnight success (38 years in the making)
10 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we introduce the good doctor Sam Hupert, founder and major shareholder of radiology imaging gro...
Rob Millner‘s simple rule for investing success
04 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Episode three of Success and More Interesting Stuff features Rob Millner, the patriarch of Washington H Soul Pattinson. Soul Patts is the closest inve...
From IVF pioneer to Afterpay investor: John McBain‘s incredible journey
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Small-cap specialist Dr John McBain likes to joke that he's still in Australia because he lost his return ticket to Scotland in the 1970s. In this epi...
Geoff Wilson: Smoking out the doubters
21 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
This episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff features high-profile fund manager Geoff Wilson, my former boss and colleague. I went to work for ...
Success And More Interesting Stuff returns next week!
15 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It's been nearly 12 months since we launched Success And More Interesting Stuff, but we're returning this December bigger and better than ever. Tune i...
We know about Tesla...what about the rest of the auto industry?
29 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Martin Ward knows people and numbers. Growing up in the UK, it was these skills that would take him through the Middle East and Singapore before settl...
Allfrey's key to finding winners
21 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Catherine Allfrey is a fighter. As the first female inductee into the Australian Fund Manager Hall of Fame, there is no doubt she has taken adversity...
The best performing fund you've never heard of
12 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Daniel Droga is a mystery man. Growing up with four brothers and a sister on the idyllic Mt Thredbo, capital markets would have been the last thing on...
$12,000 acquisition, billion dollar market cap: The Jamie Pherous journey
05 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jamie Pherous embodies the importance of drive, resilience and talent. Having graduated at 20, following the status quo was never an option. After w...
Paradice’s key to unlocking small caps
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
David Paradice loves businesses. From chatting to the owner of a bike shop in Byron Bay to discussing the KPIs of his local IGA, Paradice truly believ...
Just keep swimming: The Hackett Mentality
23 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Hackett is one of the most recognisable figures in Australia. Having experienced the highest of highs through Olympic success, the thirst for a ...
Introducing Success and More Interesting Stuff
22 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
A short preview of our upcoming podcast miniseries, brought to you by Livewire Markets.