101: ECP's Damon Callaghan and Sam Byrnes

An episode of the Conversations with Institutional Investors podcast, hosted by Investment Innovation Institute [i3], titled "101: ECP's Damon Callaghan and Sam Byrnes" was published on July 2, 2024 and runs 47 minutes.

July 2, 2024 ·47m · Conversations with Institutional Investors

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In episode 101 of the [i3] Podcast, we speak with Damon Callaghan and Sam Byrnes of asset management firm ECP. ECP was established by Dr. Manny Pohl of Hyperion Asset Management fame and in this episode we talk about the opportunities and challenges of artificial intelligence when investing in Australian equities. Enjoy the show!

01:00 How we got started in investing

04:00 Sam: My dad was CEO of Bega Cheese and that got me both interested in business and also made clear that I didn't want to work in a factory

06:00 Who is ECP? 09:30 Artificial Intelligence and the Australian stock market

13:00 Parallel processing and the ability for GPU's to work in tandem

15:00 Where do you see the best use cases in Australian companies?

17:00 Hub24 is a good example of AI being used well

22:00 Is AI disruptive, or does it merely cement the dominance of the large incumbents?

23:30 Xero vs MYOB

29:30 Can you defraud a chatbot?

30:00 Corporate use of AI will be a lot slower than what the hyperscalers would like

37:00 Consultants will be the biggest winners from this

37:30 Ethical considerations in implementing AI. Adobe and copyright

45:00 The future of AI is hyper personalisation

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