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Success and More Interesting Stuff
by Livewire Markets
Success and More Interesting Stuff gives you a front row seat to hear the incredible stories of some of Australia’s leading business, sport and investing icons. Go beyond the headlines for an up close and personal look at what it takes to make it to the top.
Episodes
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How Codan became the #1 technology stock on the ASX
Alf Ianniello joined Codan in early 2022 as CEO. Since then, the profits have almost doubled, and the share price is up around 750%. Codan’s market capitalisation is over $12 billion, making it the largest technology stock on the ASX. In this episode, Alf reveals the simple metrics he believes...
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Inside the stunning turnaround of SKS Technologies with CEO Matthew Jinks
Matthew Jinks is helping power Australia’s digital revolution. As CEO of SKS Technologies (ASX: SKS), he spearheaded an extraordinary transformation, pivoting a small commercial electrical firm into a $1 billion data-centre leader and driving a stunning 4,500% share price surge in just three…
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David Friedlander: The Dealmaker
Success and More Interesting Stuff has enjoyed conversations with a range of stock market participants. We have never talked to a lawyer - until today. David Friedlander could possibly be one of the most influential people in Australian corporate activity over the last 40 years. In this episode…
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The world is fracturing and Australia faces some critical decisions - FY27 Outlook
The geopolitical and economic tides have shifted. Recent decades played out against a backdrop of globalisation, disinflation, falling interest rates, and above-normal equity market returns. That era is behind us, and the path forward looks vastly different. This shift sits at the core of this...
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Morry Waked and the rise of an investing juggernaut
Morry Waked revolutionised the funds management industry in Australia. Armed with a natural gift for mathematics and the rigorous training of an actuary, he made the leap from insurance to the equities market and helped turn quantitative investing into a legitimate, powerhouse strategy. By using...
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Manny Pohl: Is Growth still the right bet?
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 the $17-billion-dollar powerhouse Hyperion Asset Management, Manny has spent…
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Dr Don Hamson: The pivot that built a $25bn business
In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we sit down with Dr Don Hamson, founder of Plato Investment Management. Hamson built a $25 billion fund manager, but it started with a problem. His original long/short strategy was disrupted during the GFC when regulators banned short…
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Why Jillian Broadbent believes reform, not rhetoric, will drive Australia forward
Jillian Broadbent has worked at the heart of Australia’s financial and policy institutions for decades. She began at the Reserve Bank under Nugget Coombs, helped build Bankers Trust during deregulation, and later served three terms on the RBA board through the Asian and global financial crises.…
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This ain’t junk! Why GYG’s Steven Marks refuses to compromise on quality
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 expands into the US.
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Gold, AI and the risks investors can’t ignore heading into 2026
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 approach 2026.
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Mark Landau's best investment decision
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, Landau reflects on the lessons from success, setbacks, and starting again as a listed...
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Alexis George: Rebuilding AMP
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 story, the lessons she learned abroad, and how she’s reshaping AMP’s culture and...
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Viktor Shvets: The end of cycles and the cost of progress
Viktor Shvets on the end of cycles, the rise of the cloud of finance, and why politics may now be the greatest market risk. At Livewire Live 2025, Viktor Shvets delivered one of the most anticipated keynotes of the event. Over four decades, he has built a reputation as one of the sharpest minds…
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Paul Moore: The only true arbitrage in markets is time
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 plan for Moore. Instead, it proved to be the tonic he needed. PM Capital has since...
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Simon Conn’s guide to surviving the small cap 'torture chamber'
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 morning when you wake up, Wall Street has just closed. It’s impossible not to…
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Nick Griffin on finding stocks that can double earnings in 5 years
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. After completing a commerce degree, Griffin missed out on a graduate role with one of the big four accounting firms. That setback led him to the...
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Jake Klein: The West is ill-prepared for what lies ahead and the gold price reflects this
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 a habit of spotting value where others see risk. In this episode of Success and...
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How Fidelity’s Paul Taylor stays ahead of the market
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. Paul Taylor has defied that logic. Managing a concentrated portfolio of 30 to 50 local stocks through everything from...
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Bob Desmond: Patiently picking the eyes out of quality global growth stocks
Go back 20 years and consensus said that managing international equity portfolios from Australia was just too difficult. Bob Desmond and his team at Claremont Global are proving that is yesterday’s thinking. Starting from scratch in 2012 the business has grown to over $1 billion and the style of...
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Dr Philip Lowe: Interest rates alone can’t conquer Australia’s cost of living crisis
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 facing many Australians. That's the view of former Reserve Bank Governor Dr. Philip...
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Inside Chris Corrigan's fierce battle to reform the Australian waterfront
Chris Corrigan has had his fingerprints all over corporate Australia for more than 50 years now. The boy from Bowral joined stockbroking firm Ord Minnett in the late 1960s to get the ball rolling. When Ords formed a joint venture with US fund manager Bankers Trust in the early '70s, Corrigan…
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Success and More Interesting Stuff is back in 2025
Success and More Interesting Stuff is back in 2025 with new episodes being released on the first Tuesday of each month. We're excited for the year ahead and would love for you to subscribe to the podcast.
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How Joe Aston went from the back page to bestseller
Welcome to the final episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff for 2024. In this episode, we’re closing out the year with a guest who knows how to deliver a knockout punch. Joe Aston spent 12 years as co-writer of the AFR’s Rear Window column, transforming it from a finance industry gossip…
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Inside Barry Irvin's fight for Bega and his life
Bega Cheese turned 125 this year. It started as the Bega Co-operative Creamery Company in 1999, and for over a century, things were pretty quiet. That all changed in 2000 when a young dairy farmer, Barry Irvin, took the reins as chairman. From then on, it’s been a whirlwind of growth and...
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Former Wallaby David Lyons' game-changing investments in Ag
David Lyons has travelled around the world chasing a rugby ball. From the time he started to take the game seriously as a 15-year-old he was earmarked for success. Twice he toured Europe with the Australian schoolboys, opening his eyes to a world significantly larger than the one he experienced...
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The former rugby league player who now runs a $1.5 billion business
Sometimes, misfortune can lead to opportunity. Wes Maas was an aspiring young rugby league player trying to establish himself in the NRL. The kid from Dubbo had boundless energy and in his spare time, he worked in an equipment hire business. A football injury not only meant he was out of action…
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No shortcuts! How Ian Macoun built a $100 billion funds management behemoth
It is rare for a person to spend the first half of their working life in the public service and then pivot to build a multi-billion dollar financial business. Making the story even more remarkable is that this person grew up in regional Queensland - where financial products are hardly the main...
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Hungry for profit, patient for growth: Bellroy’s motto for sustainable growth
Traditionally, on the show, we talk to people involved in some shape or form with the share market. Today, we are excitedly going off-piste and delving into the unlisted world in one of Australia's outstanding success stories. In 2008, Lina Calabria and two partners decided to start nine separate...
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Meet the small company prospector who unearthed gems like Afterpay and Bellamy’s
Stockbroking is a dangerous game. Investors depend on your advice, but the smallest slip-up can see the relationship turn nasty. As a result, most brokers tend to be as conservative as possible; not Hugh Robertson. Robertson a 40-year veteran of the stockbroking scene in Melbourne, thrives at the...
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How WiseTech's Richard White built a 26-bagger growth darling
Richard White always wanted to be a rockstar. He was still young when it dawned upon him that it might be more profitable and realistic to become a tech titan instead. Sounds simple enough, but the journey has taken many twists and turns. Over 40 odd years, White thought life was perfect, hanging...
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Alex Vynokur bet his house on ETFs now his firm is challenging the global behemoths of index investing
A revolution has taken place in share investing since the turn of the century. American firms have led the charge with the likes of Vanguard and Blackrock taking passive investing around the globe. Disenchantment with active fund managers has seen funds flow into the passive sector, accelerated…
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Australia has 12 million empty bedrooms... So could this company crack the housing crisis code?
Affordable housing seems to be an elusive goal in Australia. However, Lifestyle Communities (ASX: LIC), which is celebrating its 21st birthday in 2024, might have just cracked the code. The company’s land rent model is spreading across Victoria at an ever-increasing rate. To date, more than 30...
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Kerr Neilson: This opportunity will drive the next decade of growth
Over the last four years, Success and More Interesting Stuff has been privileged to host some of the legends of the Australian equity market. Arguably though no one has had more of an impact on the industry than Kerr Neilson. Originally from South Africa, Neilson landed on Australian shores in…
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How Olev Rahn helped Bankers Trust survive the 1987 crash (and how he sees markets in 2024)
In 1987, Olev Rahn was pounding the streets of New York's financial district, meeting with Wall Street's best strategists. Rahn, who was running BT Financial's institutional business Pendal, felt distinctly uneasy about the exuberance gripping financial markets. It felt like a giant bubble, and…
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How ’The Speculator’s Diary’ got Ben Griffiths got hooked on small caps (and why he thinks we’re in a ’pause rally’)
Every year, fund manager Eley Griffiths invites stockbrokers from across the country to a lavish dinner. In the cutthroat world of the share market, stockbrokers rarely get treated by their clients. Eley Griffiths, the $1.2 billion small company manager known affectionately as EGG, is a rare…
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Graham ‘Skroo’ Turner shares the highs and lows of Flight Centre and his 50 years in travel
Graham "Skroo" Turner grew up in splendid isolation. His family owned an orchard in Southeast Queensland, and he rode a pushbike to school, which was so small it only required one teacher. Even when he went to university, he avoided humans and decided to study vet science. Skroo, now seventy-four...
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The CEO who kicked the incumbents to the curb (and delivered investors a +4000% return in the process)
It's been just over a decade since Andrew Alcock took a risk on a small up-and-coming investment platform. The gamble has certainly paid off. Since joining the firm in July 2013, HUB24's (ASX: HUB) share price has skyrocketed around 4200% - turning an ASX-listed microcap into a market-leading...
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Stick to your knitting: Anton Tagliaferro’s secret to high conviction investing
Anton Tagliaferro grew up in Malta, playing football and studying with the dream of someday becoming a doctor. This was pushed aside, however, when political unrest in his native country led him to leave for London, where he ended up studying accounting. Soon after graduating, Anton discovered…
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Meet the man who turned Nick Scali into a 10-bagger
Nick Scali is a furniture powerhouse. Since listing in May 2004, the store count has grown from 10 to 107 without having to tap shareholders for additional capital. Who knew Australians had such an insatiable appetite for leather lounges? Equally as impressive as store growth are the financial...
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“It was horrific.” How Robert Kelly overcame adversity to build a $6 billion business
By the time most people reach their mid-forties, they are thinking about an exit strategy for their working life. That was not the case for Robert Kelly AM, who, in 1975, after a series of harrowing business experiences, was dusting himself off and preparing to start all over again. Kelly is the...
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Trailer: “It was horrific.” How Robert Kelly overcame adversity to build a $6 billion business
The latest episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff introduces one of the most enterprising and successful people on the corporate landscape. Robert Kelly had a chequered career in the 1970s and 80s that included a failed business, driving taxis and dealing with some of Sydney’s more…
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Breaking big stories: Tony Boyd’s Chanticleer playbook
We have a treat for you today. Historically the show has focused on outstanding investors and leading executives. Today, we are delving into the other cog of the share market machine - the fourth estate, or as most of us know it, the media. Tony Boyd has been a finance journalist for more than 40...
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25 years and counting: How this “market animal” has consistently beaten the market
It's been 25 years since the first days of Ausbil Investment Management, and Executive Chairman, CIO and Head of Equities Paul Xiradis is still one of the first to arrive at the office. The self-confessed "market animal" lives and breathes investing. But few know the making of X, as he is now...
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Meet Paul Xiradis: Chief Investment Officer and Head of Equities at one of Bridge Street’s most famous money managers
For 25 years, Paul Xiradis has been the CIO and Head of Equities at one of Bridge Street’s most famous money managers - Ausbil Investment Management. Xiradis is the last link to the original foundation group of Ausbil. And as executive chairman, he’ll continue to have plenty on his plate from a...
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How Dawn Kanelleas perfected the science of small-cap investing
Dawn Kanelleas has always been academically competitive. The daughter of socially progressive Greek immigrants, she knew, even from a young age, that she was destined to break the social norms of the time. And so, she decided academics would be a suitable path, donning a laboratory coat for a...
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Meet Dawn Kanelleas: The small cap investor who thrives on competition
If I asked you to describe the background of a professional investor, I’m willing to bet you would not have picked someone who has a PhD in chemistry. But that’s exactly who Dawn Kanelleas is. After running through the full gamut of the University of Sydney’s prestigious science program, she...
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The boy from Adelaide who rescued Australia’s failing property sector
The Australian commercial property sector was in a mess in the mid-1990s. The industry was stuck in illiquid structures and investors were unable to withdraw their money. Then, budding investment banker Andrew Pridham entered the picture. He believed listing property assets was the best way out…
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Meet: Andrew Pridham - real estate guru, serial entrepreneur, author and Chairman of the Sydney Swans
Not many investment bankers can claim to have a Wikipedia profile, but Andrew Pridham can. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Pridham has covered everything from M&A at J.P. Morgan to real estate investing at UBS. Since 2009, he’s run his own shop in conjunction with US-based Moelis &…
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Maggie Beer’s recipe for turning passion (and paté) into profit
How’s this for an honours list? Winner of the Gourmet Traveller Restaurant of the Year Senior Australian of the Year Honorary Doctorate from the University of South Australia Author of 11 books Star of multiple cooking shows Order of Australia (AM) Officer of the Order of Australia (AO) Public...
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Meet Maggie Beer - she has an incredible story to tell
Cooking from the heart is the humble and simple philosophy of one of Australia’s most well-known personalities. In a career spanning four decades - and in spite of zero formal training - Maggie Beer has become a beloved figure on our screens and gained a presence in many an Australian kitchen or...
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Success and More Interesting Stuff gives you a front row seat to hear the incredible stories of some of Australia’s leading business, sport and investing icons. Go beyond the headlines for an up close and personal look at what it takes to make it to the top.
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