The Seat
One manager. One seat. Hear the stories, convictions and career-defining moments behind the people shaping Australia's investment landscape.
The Seat takes you behind the titles and beyond the headlines to hear from the investment professionals shaping Australia's financial markets.
Through candid conversations, guests share the career-defining decisions, market convictions and personal lessons that earned them a seat at the table, and how those experiences continue to shape the way they invest and lead.
Latest episode | Take a Seat with William Taylor
Chief Operating Officer, ETF Shares
What does it take to leave an established industry leader and help build a new investment business from the ground up? In this episode, William Taylor shares the pivotal decisions that shaped his career, his views on investing and ETFs, and the lessons he's learned along the way.
Key discussion points
- Taking the leap from industry leader to start-up builder
- The hidden cost of investment fees
- What many investors get wrong about diversification
- Why ETFs are changing how Australians invest
- Career risks, rewards and lessons learned
AI bubble. People have been calling it a bubble for maybe two years. No one seems to talk when they're wrong, but everyone is pushing that agenda.
No. You've got to keep swimming. You have highs and lows, inside and outside of work. You've got to just keep going.
Thinking that diversification equals safety. People think a diversified portfolio is great, which it can be. But when there's panic in the market, correlation and across assets and even single stocks, they all converge. So you've got to be careful.
Don't underestimate the importance of trust. People are investing for their future, and rightly so. They should be careful and be diligent. So, as a new player, it is so important to build that trust in the market.
Opportunity. I'm a glass is half full kind of guy. If you're in the market, you've got an upside. If you're out of the market and you're in cash, it's doing nothing. If we look at the last 20 years, if you did a kind of buy and hold strategy versus selling every time you reach all time highs, you'd massively underperform.
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