A very special one today as it is Episode 12 of The ETFtracker Show’s Interview with Experts series. In today’s episode we speak with Damon Gosen, Director of Business Development at VanEck Australia, a global ETF Issuer. We discuss a number of topics in this including the various VanEck ETFs and how smart beta plays a part, Damon's thoughts on the growth of the ETF markets and how investors should use data to get a better understanding of what's in their ETF.

Next year we'll pick up this series again, but for now, thanks for watching this series and stay tuned each Friday as we continue the weekly wrap-up with Exchange Traded Fridays.

Chapters

• 0:00 - Intro
• 2:18 - Damon's origin story and how he got involved in finance and ETFs as well as a bit on the growth of VanEck
• 5:44 - A bit more about the type of clients that are attracted to VanEck - it's a wide range of client types per the stats that they get including a look at ESPO
• 7:38 - Homework time - Damon asked us to look into one of their ETFs (CNEW) to see how similar it is to other Asian ETFs and we passed. We then go into that ETF in a bit more detail
• 14:04 - Portfolio construction and what ETF investors should look at when putting together their portfolio. Includes a great plug for ETFtracker, thanks Damon!
• 18:00 - Growth of ETFs in the Australian market and where Damon sees us getting to over the next couple of years and how we compare to other markets. There's a long way to go still.
• 21:42 - Some detail about the VanEck framework for creating a new ETF and the hurdles that it has to go through to be added to the 29 existing ETFs they already have.
• 25:09 - A discussion on the types of ETFs that could be coming to our shores from all different ETF providers and the move away from simple market cap weighted ETFs. Granular exposure is a popular area to keep an eye out for.
• 28:23 - Wrap up to the interview

Extra

• 5:16 - Shout out to QUAL as one of the best performing VanEck ETFs

Links

You can watch this on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT6D4YStNQP-9eeXetCStKQ

Or you can check out the podcast page on our website: https://www.etftracker.com.au/podcasts

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Links

• Damon's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damon-gosen-b0bb673/
• VanEck Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vaneck-australia/
• VanEck website: https://www.vaneck.com.au/
• VanEck on Twitter: https://twitter.com/vaneck_au

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