Success and More Interesting Stuff

Brent Potts is a legend of the Australian stockbroking industry and after 55 years he is still going strong. Potts has seen just about everything in the Australian market and has some colourful stories to tell. The full interview with Brent Potts goes live on Tuesday 20th December.

None of it really makes sense. A young man from Queensland teaching the world about Pizzas. Don Meij was born in Rockhampton, Queensland, moving around as a child before landing at Redcliff in North Brisbane. He trained to be a teacher but somehow got hooked on being the best Pizza delivery person in the district.  The next step was to become a franchised shop owner of a small chain called Silvio’...

The full interview with the Don Meij the founder and Managing Director of Domino’s Pizzas goes live on the 13th of December 2022. Here’s a taste of what is coming up.

Success and More Interesting Stuff is back for its third and best season ever. Kicking off on December 13 and running through to January 24 the series talks to 7 of the most successful professional investors and business operators in Australia. Each guest has a superbly colourful story to tell. Each one took risks that the rest of us would find to daunting to seriously contemplate. Once the decisi...

In this final episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we turn back the clock and talk to legendary fund manager Peter Morgan. Peter was a 'master of the market' in the 1990s at the helm of Perpetual Investments. When he left in 2002, the group was managing about $12 billion and was outperforming the market year after year, notching up returns of more than 14% per annum. Peter and Warwick Ne...

Jun Bei Liu landed in Australia as a 16-year-old without a social or business network and very little English. From this humble beginning she has worked her way through the ranks and today is managing close to $1 billion for well-known fund manager Tribeca. Jun Bei is tireless and an inspiration for both women and those from outside the establishment. Here she recalls her earliest exposure to shar...

In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we speak to AFL legend Chris Judd, a former star of the midfield for West Coast Eagles and Carlton Football Club. His career on the field netted him a premiership, two Brownlow Medals and acclaim as one of the best players of the modern era. Since retiring from the game in 2015, Chris has turned his attention to trading financial markets. He t...

In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, we introduce the good doctor Sam Hupert, founder and major shareholder of radiology imaging group Pro Medicus. Sam has been talking business for as long as he can remember, thanks to his entrepreneurial parents. Even as a medical student he was exercising his commercial skills with a successful photography enterprise. Once computers began to t...

Episode three of Success and More Interesting Stuff features Rob Millner, the patriarch of Washington H Soul Pattinson. Soul Patts is the closest investment vehicle that Australia has to Warren Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway. And like Berkshire Hathaway, Soul Patts has been an outstanding success. Rob is only the fourth Millner to run the company over 100 years and to date he has managed to multiply...

Small-cap specialist Dr John McBain likes to joke that he's still in Australia because he lost his return ticket to Scotland in the 1970s. In this episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff, John describes how his career in obstetrics and gynaecology took off on his arrival in Melbourne in 1976 and took him in directions no one could have predicted. From early entrepreneurial success delivering...

This episode of Success and More Interesting Stuff features high-profile fund manager  Geoff Wilson , my former boss and colleague. I went to work for him in the 1990s — for free, at first, until he could afford to pay me — and cut my teeth in the industry as we jetted around the country seeking investors for his early funds. Geoff has built a stunning funds management business through the listed...

It's been nearly 12 months since we launched Success And More Interesting Stuff, but we're returning this December bigger and better than ever. Tune in to this short intro for a preview of what's to come.   

Martin Ward knows people and numbers. Growing up in the UK, it was these skills that would take him through the Middle East and Singapore before settling into the automotive industry in Australia. Currently CEO of Eagers Automotive, Australia's largest vehicle retailer, Ward has been instrumental in driving a 700% share price appreciation over the last 15 years.  A staple of Ward's time in managem...

Catherine Allfrey is a fighter. As the first female inductee into the Australian Fund Manager Hall of Fame, there is no doubt she has taken adversity in stride on her way to the top. Beginning her career at Dai-Ichi Kangyo Bank's Sydney office, the reality of being a woman in a traditionally male dominated field became apparent. Cultural differences drove her to greener pastures and she was soon h...

Daniel Droga is a mystery man. Growing up with four brothers and a sister on the idyllic Mt Thredbo, capital markets would have been the last thing on his mind. A commerce degree and 34 years of industry experience later however, his mind-boggling returns are the stuff of legend. But how did this former futures trader turned small cap guru make it to the top whilst retaining such a low profile?  B...

Jamie Pherous embodies the importance of drive, resilience and talent. Having graduated at 20, following the status quo was never an option.  After working across brokerage and accountancy, the prescribed pathways never aligned with Jamie's entrepreneurial tendencies, and, when the opportunity to transition into the travel industry arose, Jamie welcomed it with open arms.  From there he has not lo...

David Paradice loves businesses. From chatting to the owner of a bike shop in Byron Bay to discussing the KPIs of his local IGA, Paradice truly believes that everyone has an area of expertise and is always looking to learn.  An Australian Fund Manager Hall of Fame inductee, he launched Paradice Investment Management  aged 40, having earned his stripes spearheading the small-cap divisions at ING Gr...

Grant Hackett is one of the most recognisable figures in Australia. Having experienced the highest of highs through Olympic success, the thirst for a challenge never wavered. After retiring from swimming for the second time, Grant went back to business school and spent a couple of years in banking. When the opportunity to join the team at Generation Development Group arose however, the allure of t...

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