195: Ilan Israelstam – The Inner Workings of an ETF Manager

Chat With Traders

Tessa Dao

Education, Business, Investing

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2020

⏱️ 69 minutes

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Summary

Ilan Israelstam’s a co-founder of Australian ETF manager BetaShares and a principal at VC firm Apex Capital Partners. Betashares first begun trading in 2010, and currently, it manages approximately $10-billion dollars in assets, across 61 funds—all of which trade on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). The motive in asking Ilan to be on the podcast was to learn more about how ETF managers operate and to delve into some of the technical aspects of ETFs. In summary, the topics we cover: risks for ETF managers, how ETF managers make money, the necessity of designated market makers, how ‘short’ and ‘leveraged’ ETFs trade as intended, tips for investing in ETFs and researchable ideas for trading ETFs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:23.0	What's up and welcome ladies and gents. This is episode 195.
1:30.0	And I'm joined by Elon Israel Stam.
1:33.0	Elon's a co-founder of Australian ETF manager, Betashez, and a principal at VC firm, Apex Capital Partners.
1:43.0	Betashez first begun trading in 2010, and currently it manages approximately $10 billion in assets
1:52.0	across 61 funds, all of which trade on the Australian securities exchange, or ASX.
1:59.0	My idea of asking Elon to be on the podcast was really just to learn a bit more about how ETF managers operate,
2:07.0	and to delve into some of the technical aspects of ETFs too.
2:11.0	So this isn't supposed to be like an intro to ETFs type of episode. Hopefully you'll gain some deeper insight.
2:19.0	Included in the topics we chat about are risks for ETF managers, how ETF managers make money, the important role of designated market makers,
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