Opto Sessions – Invest in the Next Big Idea

Richard Lightbound is EMEA & Asia CEO of ROBO Global, an index advisory and Research company helping investors capture the unique opportunities presented by Robotics, Artificial intelligence, and Healthcare technology. Each of those themes within the Disruptive Innovation landscape is represented by a ROBO Global index, and cumulatively those indices have accrued close to $5bn worth of assets...

This week I’ve had the pleasure of interviewing Tobias Carlisle, founder and managing director of Acquirers Funds where he manages the firm's deep value strategy as a portfolio manager. Tobias is also the author of The Acquirer’s Multiple (2017), Concentrated Investing (2016), Deep Value (2014), and Quantitative Value (2012). In this interview, we discuss the 2 ways returns to deep value are reali...

Ali Urman is ARK Invest’s Genomic Revolution analyst, responsible for the company’s research on Gene editing, DNA sequencing, Stem cell technologies & Immunotherapy. As of September 2021, ARK’s AUM stood at a colossal $42.4 billion, spearheaded by investing legend and household name, Cathie Wood. To speak to ARK’s Genomics analyst as a global pandemic thrusts Biotechnology into the spotlight w...

This week we’ve got Austin Lieberman on the show, one of the 11 portfolio managers at Chamaths Social Capital. The 11 fund managers were given $50million by social capital earlier this year to try and achieve abnormal returns from the markets. Austin was previously a lead advisor at 7investing, a regular contributor to the motley fool, and a veteran, having served 7 years at the united states air...

On Friday 15th October we hosted our third live interview on Twitter Spaces, with Sessions favourite, Dr. Jeff Ross. Having previously quizzed Jeff about Bitcoin’s long-term outlook and the Crypto’s credentials as a Store of Value, this time we focused on his hedge fund’s stock-picking strategy. Vailshire Partners operates a Long/Short approach, identifying long-term equity investments in the Heal...

This week I’m delighted to introduce Jaime Rogozinsk, Founder of the notorious WSB subreddit, you’ll all know them from the infamous GameStop short squeeze. A moment that will go down in history alongside the rise of the retail trader and the power of communities. Jaime founded WSB, a movement for ​​financial democracy, in 2012. The community currently stands at approx 11 million strong. In this i...

Emmet Savage is Chief Investor and Co-Founder of MyWallSt. MyWallSt’s mission is to get their readers successfully investing in the stock market, over a long-term time horizon. In addition to timely market insights and illuminating educational content on the firm’s App and website, Emmet offers 24/7 access to his Horizon portfolio, a group of 20-50 stocks, all of which Emmet believes possess the p...

Last week we hosted our second live interview on Twitter Spaces, this time with Biotechnology investment expert and pioneer, Brad Loncar. Brad is the creator of two Nasdaq-listed funds: The Cancer Immunotherapy ETF & The China BioPharma ETF, and as a result, we focus on oncology innovation and Evergrande’s impact on Chinese biopharma. But to kick off, listen out for Brad’s views on Merck’s gam...

Kevin T. Carter is the Founder & Chief Investment Officer of EMQQ. While Kevin considers himself an active ‘value’ investor - a Buffett/Munger disciple -, a 20+-year partnership with Princeton economist and indexing legend Dr. Burton Malkiel, has seen his career take an unexpected turn. Having co-founded Active Index Advisors in 2002, a pioneer in so-called ‘direct-indexing’, Kevin’s ambition...

Today we welcomed back Keith McCullough, CEO of the renowned market insights outfit, Hedgeye. With over 200,000 followers on Twitter, Keith has garnered a global reputation for his transparent, data-led approach. We kick off the interview by discussing how Keith and his team of over 40 analysts use their proprietary Growth/Inflation/Policy (GIP) model, to paint an illuminating picture of the macro...

This week’s episode is slightly different. You’ll hear a live Q&A held on Twitter Spaces last Friday with Founder of Vailshire Capital Management and friend of the show, Jeff Ross. Jeff occupies the rare space of being both a radiologist and a founder of a successful hedge fund, and while the latter provides an innovative, all-weather, full-cycle portfolio management system – which has returne...

Hello everyone, I’m your host, Ed Gotham, and welcome to another episode of Opto Sessions where we interview the top investors from around the world uncovering their secrets to success. This week we’ve got Andrew Chanin, CEO at ProcureAM on the show. ProcureAM enables investors to access other-worldly opportunities via the space ETF UFO. Andrew has a rich history in the equity markets beginning hi...

This week we’ve got Bob Brown on the show, CFO at AEye. AEye is a leader in AI-driven LiDAR systems for autonomous vehicles, advanced driver-assistance, and robotic vision. Bob has over 30 years of financial experience, completing over $20 billion in financing and M&A transactions, and has a rich history of working in C-level positions at various other Lidar companies. In this interview, we di...

Bruce Liu manages WUGI, Esoterica's NextG Economy ETF, which invests in 5G and its enablement of the ‘New Digital Economy’. Having spent time at WisdomTree, Alliance Bernstein, PhaseCapital, and the Dow Chemical Pension Fund, Bruce’s research technique was honed at some of the most prestigious sell-side and brokerage firms on the planet. Now he puts that to use exploring possibly this decade’s mos...

Ross Gerber is one of the most influential investors on social and traditional media. Gerber’s candid insight has seen him become a regular on Bloomberg, Reuters, Yahoo Finance, CNN, and Forbes. His wealth & investment management firm, Gerber Kawasaki, was founded in 2010 with business partner Danilo Kawasaki, and now looks after 8,000 clients and over $2 billion. We discussed the firm’s uniqu...

Hector McNeil is one of the most influential ETF experts in the industry, the product of over 19 years of experience, and recognised as such by ETF Stream’s ‘30 index’. Having been instrumental in establishing Susquehanna’s European ETF desk, Hector joined ETF Securities as Joint Managing Partner in 2005. Then in 2011, Hector founded BoostETP with business partner Nik Bienkowski. The company was s...

Welcome to Opto Sessions where we interview the top traders and investors from around the world uncovering their secrets to success. Today,  I welcome Robert Cantwell, the founder of Upholdings and The Compound Kings™ ETF, ticker (KNGS). Upholdings was started to make high-quality growth investing available to more investors, the King's ETF is the first hedge fund ever to convert into an actively...

This is a unique episode. We were offered the very exciting opportunity to interview Mark Manduca, Chief Investment Officer for Logistics at XPO Logistics, NYSE-listed equity. Mark is a CFA with an extensive background in finance as managing director of equity research at Citi for ~3 years and prior to that Bank of America Merrill Lynch for close to 9 years. In this interview, we discuss the newly...

I spoke to Hedge Fund Telemetry Founder and President, Thomas Thornton. Tom’s career has taken him from early stints at Morgan Stanley and Roxbury Capital, to the now notorious former hedge fund, Level Global. Having subsequently been appointed Head trader at a high-profile family office, Tom then started to run his own money before a ‘eureka’ moment in 2017. What if Tom could bring investors insi...

This week we’ve got Dr. Jeff Ross on the show again. Jeff is the founder of Vailshire Capital Management, a successful hedge fund which employs an innovative “all-weather” full-cycle portfolio strategy for its clients. Achieving triple-digit returns over the past year. In this interview, we discuss the macro environment along with the potential implications of a stronger dollar, the reflation to d...

I caught up with growth stock investor Jonah Lupton, up 90% year-to-date and ready to discuss the top two holdings in his current portfolio. Ed originally spoke to Jonah back in March, so instead of re-covering old ground, Jonah and I got straight into these two exciting companies: Futu Holdings & Upstart. Jonah’s mission is to identify stocks that have the potential to 5x over the next 5 year...

Brad Loncar is a Biotechnology expert, a pioneer in Biotech investment, and the index provider for two Nasdaq-listed biotech ETFs, Loncar’s Cancer Immunotherapy ETF, and the China BioPharma ETF.   Brad is CEO of Loncar Investments and has a wealth of investment experience, having started out at Franklin Templeton as part of their Management Training Program. Brad’s also spent time in the US politi...

On today's show, I’m delighted to introduce Beth Kindig, a technology analyst with over a decade of experience in the private markets. She’s now the co-founder of IO fund which specialises in helping individuals gain a competitive edge when investing in tech growth stocks. How does Beth do this? She has gained hands-on experience over the years whilst either working for and/or analysing a huge amo...

On this show, I welcome Katrina Daminova, part of the Business Development team at Gemini. Gemini is one of the principal companies in the digital assets space with a very popular exchange and custody product for institutional investors. At Gemini, Katrina focuses on developing partnerships and servicing institutions. Her client base includes digital asset managers, crypto funds, hedge funds, mark...

Welcome to Opto Sessions where we interview the top traders and investors from around the world uncovering their secrets to success. Today I have the pleasure of welcoming Macro investor Diego Parrilla, the best-selling author of "The Energy World is Flat" and "The Anti-Bubbles". In his day to day, he’s the Managing Partner and Portfolio Manager at Quadriga Asset Managers with a focus on Global Ma...