Success and More Interesting Stuff

<p >Manny Pohl may well be the 'father of growth investing' in Australia, but his journey began thousands of miles away as an electrical engineer in South Africa. From a chance meeting on the Gold Coast to co-founding...

<p >In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we sit down with Dr Don Hamson, founder of Plato Investment Management.</p> <p >Hamson built a $25 billion fund manager, but it started with a problem. His...

<p>Jillian Broadbent has worked at the heart of Australia’s financial and policy institutions for decades.</p> <p>She began at the Reserve Bank under Nugget Coombs, helped build Bankers Trust during deregulation, and...

<p >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, why quality is non-negotiable, and what comes next as the business...

<p>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 discussion focused on four timely issues facing markets as we...

<p >Mark Landau’s best investment decision wasn’t a stock pick — it was meeting his future business partner, Rafi Lamm. Together they built L1 Capital from scratch into a $17 billion fund manager. In this episode...

<p >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 Australian business — rebuilding AMP. In this episode, she shares her...

<p>Viktor Shvets on the end of cycles, the rise of the cloud of finance, and why politics may now be the greatest market risk.<br> <br> At Livewire Live 2025, Viktor Shvets delivered one of the most anticipated keynotes...

<p>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, into Phil King’s Regal Partners. Many thought this was an exit...

<p>The professional investment game is relentless. No matter where you are in the world, you cannot escape the endless procession of markets. Sure, you can go on holiday and attempt the concept of relaxation, but each...

<p>Nick Griffin’s path to fund management may have seemed preordained, his father worked in the industry, but his journey has been anything but ordinary.</p> <p>After completing a commerce degree, Griffin missed out on...

<p>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 building Evolution Mining into a $16 billion powerhouse, Klein has made...

<p >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’s supposed to be out of reach.</p> <p>Paul Taylor has defied that...

<p>Go back 20 years and consensus said that managing international equity portfolios from Australia was just too difficult. </p> <p>Bob Desmond and his team at Claremont Global are proving that is yesterday’s thinking...

<p >Australia is obsessed with interest rates like no other country, and it is distracting us from tackling more pressing challenges, like productivity, that would have a greater impact on the cost of living crisis...