My Worst Investment Ever Podcast

Ralph Woodcock is a Partner with St. James’s Place and based in Shenzhen, China. Ralph is an ACIS member of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment (CISI) and has worked in the offshore financial services industry for over five years. He is very passionate about delivering tailored and holistic solutions to his clients and committed to building long-term relationships by providing a so...

Michael Batnick is the Director of Research at Ritholtz Wealth Management where he reads research publications and stays on top the latest trends in the industry. He is a member of the investment committee and heads up the company’s internal research efforts. He spends most of his time developing and implementing risk management and portfolio strategies for the firm’s clients. His career began wit...

Olan Suthivej is currently the VP of Thailand Investment Banking & Capital Market (IBCM) at Credit Suisse based in Bangkok. He joined Credit Suisse in 2014 and has over 12 years of extensive investment banking experience in equity, equity-linked, debt financing, and M&A advisory transactions. Before joining Credit Suisse, Olan was an Associate Director in the Investment Banking department at UBS S...

Tony Watson is an investment professional with more than 20 years of experience in Asia (ex-Japan) credit markets.  He joined Far East Investment Limited in 2016 where he is currently a Portfolio Manager and Responsible Officer.  He was regularly ranked by Asiamoney, FinanceAsia and The Asset as one of Asia (ex-Japan)’s top 10 publishing credit analysts between 2001 and 2007.  Tony joined the Hong...

Paul Sheehan has more than 25 years of experience in financial institutions, starting as a central banker at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.  Subsequently, he was a Managing Director and Head of Financial Institutions for Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns, and ING Barings, and founder and CEO of Thaddeus Capital, an institutional fund manager.  He continues to advise governments, sovereign wealt...

Franki Chung is a CFA charter holder and has a massive 24 years of experience in equity/fixed income analysis and portfolio management in Asia Pacific ex-Japan.  He was the Chief Investment Officer of MEAG HK, the asset management arm of Munich Reinsurance. Based in Hong Kong, he and his team cover Asian equities and fixed income portfolios for Munich Reinsurance. Before joining MEAG in 2010, he w...

Awais Abdul Sattar is an Investment Professional with 5+ years of experience in the field of Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management. He started his career as a buy-side research analyst.  He is currently Head of Research at MCB Arif Habib Investments, one of the top-rated asset management companies in Pakistan which are managing $700 million assets.  He favors a bottom-up approach in the ana...

Mr. M. Zia Islam is the Coordinator, External Relations, School of Management, Asian Institute of Technology Thailand. AIT School of Management is ranked among top 250 B-Schools in the World under QS World Rankings by Subjects 2018 under "Business & Management." He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computing & Information Systems from London Metropolitan University. In his free time, he enjoys readin...

Peter Emblin has diverse experience in global financial markets and corporate finance having worked in Australia, the United Kingdom, and various South East Asian countries.  His career experiences cover analysis, primary research, investment management, mergers and acquisitions from both the buy and sell sides.  He was a resident in Thailand since 1992 when he came there to help establish a newly...

Mohd Sedek Jantan is an experienced and highly competent investment professional and financial planner.  He is currently connected with Standard Financial Adviser since June 2014 where he is the Head of Investment & Financial Planning.  He is primarily responsible for managing Corporate and high net worth investment portfolio, investment research and strategy. He is also involved with providing fi...

Dan Gramza  is President of Gramza Capital Management, Inc.  He is a trader, consultant to domestic and international clients, an advisor to hedge funds, a developer of ETF / ETC securities and co-inventor of two issued security patents. He has published works and has appeared on numerous media outlets around the world.  He set up and ran stock and futures proprietary trading operations, given exp...

Dan Passarelli is an author, trader and former member of the Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) and Chicago Mercantile Exchange (CME) Group.  He also founded Market Taker Mentoring, Inc., a leading options education firm that provides online options education, options newsletters and personalized, one-on-one coaching for options traders.  Dan began teaching both basic and advanced trading conce...

Joachim Klement is Head of Investment Research at Fidante Partners where he investigates long-term investment trends, alternative investments, and listed investment trusts. He was previously Head of Thematic Research at Credit Suisse, Chief Investment Officer at Wellershoff & Partners and Head of Equity Strategy at UBS Wealth Management. He holds Masters degrees in Mathematics and Economics as wel...

Having over 20 years of experience in asset management and wealth management industry,  Sornchai Suneta  is currently leading the Investment Advisory Practice, CIO office at Siam Commercial Bank (SCB). Also, he was appointed as Advisor to the sub-committee on Monetary, Banking, Financial Institutions and Capital market, Thailand legislative Assembly, in addition to serving as one of the CFA Societ...

An award-winning analyst, Michael Mcgaughy has a diverse financial background spanning buy- and sell-side equity research, fund-of-hedge-funds, and private equity. He first came to Asia as an exchange student in 1985 and has been involved with the region ever since, having lived and worked in Beijing, Hong Kong, and Singapore, for different companies including HSBC, the old Crosby Group and StoneW...

Dr. Patrick Woock  is a Passionate Strategic Entrepreneur, Idea Creator and Thought Leader who is driven to build next-generation tools for Transnational Entrepreneurs. Skilled in International Negotiations, Global Business Planning, Startup Coaching, and Sales. Dr. Woock was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from the University of Science and Technology of China. He has received numerous recognition...

Odilon Costa is a Sr. Emerging Market Research Analyst with the emphasis in commercial real estate and fixed income. He started his career working at large investment banks, such as ABN Amro, BNP Paribas, and HSBC, in Brazil and France. His activities are currently focused on providing strategic services for some research platforms, such as REDD Intelligence and Eleven Financial, and asset manager...

Rajeev Gupta has an immense 20-years experience investing and building technology companies.  He worked for almost a decade at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong, Singapore and New York focusing on listed and unlisted technology companies.  He then moved at Tribeca & Merricks Capital where he ran global technology funds and eventually built his own 25-person technology start-up company, Geckolife.  He is...

Alvin Fan is the Chief Executive Officer of OP Investment Management, one of Asia’s leading hedge fund platforms focusing on emerging managers.  Part of the Oriental Patron Financial Group running assets of over USD 10 billion primarily in private equity, OPIM separately partners with emerging hedge fund managers with assets collectively more than $750 million across 25 managers.  Having worked in...

Roongkiat Ratanabanchuen is a Thai banking professional who has an impressive portfolio in the areas of a pension fund, mutual fund, and microfinance.  He is currently a full-time lecturer in Finance at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand.  He also worked as a Risk Management Officer at Bank of Thailand.  He graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Automotive Engineering at Chulalongkorn University...

Michael Garcia is   CEO and Chief Investment Officer of MDG capital, a boutique investment advisory firm based in Manila.  MBG Capital serves as investment adviser to Seahedge Philippines Fund (Bloomberg: SEAPHFA:KY), a Philippines-focused equity fund domiciled in the Cayman Islands. Before establishing MBG Capital in 2011, Michael worked for nine years as the Head and Chief Investment Officer of...

Adam Butler is Chief Investment Officer of ReSolve Asset Management. Adam is an author of the book Adaptive Asset Allocation: Dynamic Global Portfolios to Profit in Good Times and Bad and contributed to the best investment writing volumes one and two, and he is ranked in the top one percent of authors by papers downloaded on SSRN. Adam also holds a CFA and CAIA charters. In this episode, we will h...

In our lifetime, we thrive to create, grow, and protect our wealth. We create wealth through different business and investment ventures. We look at different investment vehicles to grow our wealth. Alongside those investment opportunities, we ensure that we understand all the many risks that are involved in our ventures so that our wealth is secured and protected. In our 30th episode, Andrew share...

Jotak Nandwana is a keen follower of the Indian stock market and has been investing money since 2010. He uses the CAN SLIM style to screen for growth stocks. He has been working as an Equity Analyst for MarketSmith India, since its inception. Jotak has been involved in extensive studies on biggest winners in the Indian market. He manages the MarketSmith India model portfolio along with other resea...

Guest profile   Brandon  Gaille  is an entrepreneur who  has  founded five multi-million-dollar companies over the past  three  decades.  Currently ,   he  runs  a self-named  Internet  marketing firm  that helps clients acquire more customers through SEO and  pay-per-click (PPC) advertising . He also has a thriving online course that teaches people a blogging system that propelled his  blog   to ...