Description

In this week's episode we chat with Angel Zhong, a lecturer at RMIT who has been in the news talking about retail investor trading. Whether its The MarketLit Conference, the ABC News or The Conversation or even the AFR, Angel's work has been of interest especially as many retail traders jump into ETFs.

If you've ever wanted to learn more about fixed income ETFs and what's inside them, this is the episode for you.

Chapters

• 0:00 - Introduction
• 1:29 - When and how Angel got started in finannce and what sparked that interest (it runs in the family)
• 5:00 - Some details about the research Angel has done in finance including equity markets and asset pricing and the changing behaviour of retail investors and how ETFs helped drive the boom. Also a bit of climate risk here too.
• 9:02 - Details on a new piece of research focusing on how young investors navigate uncertainty in Covid-19. This also includes what some of the study participants spoke about
• 12:05 - The rise of the finfluencer and thoughts on the pros and cons here. We also talk about regulation here and the need to enhance financial literacy in the market
• 16:33 - on the growth of retail trading and ETFs and how that trend will play out (get ready for some stats). There's also some talk on crypto ETFs here and its quite counter-intuitive as to what retail traders interviewed think about it
• 20:40 - Some advice from an academic and where people should look for advice
• 23:56 - Where to reach out to Angel

Links

• Follow Angel on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/angel-zhong-4085a397/
• Angel on Google Scolar: https://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=rty_iysAAAAJ&hl=en
• AFR "How to spot a decent sharemarket advice newsletter": https://www.afr.com/wealth/investing/how-to-spot-a-decent-sharemarket-advice-newsletter-20210316-p57ba5
• AFR "Waves of newbies wading into stocks": https://www.afr.com/companies/financial-services/waves-of-newbies-wading-into-stocks-20210505-p57p1g
• Angel's Articles on The Conversation: https://theconversation.com/profiles/angel-zhong-1204643/articles

Stay tuned until next week for more interviews with experts and listen out on Fridays for our weekly wrap up of ETF news.

If you prefer to watch this epsiode, you can check it out our YouTube page (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Rtg5I9rcEE&list=PLjC6E9VHX9HhdFrl3LKNCIlm8BL8WKqs2&index=2&ab_channel=ETFtracker)

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