Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Simone Haslinger, Chief Executive Officer at East Coast Capital Management.
Simone shares how clear, sustained trends across commodities, precious metals, and tech equities powered a standout quarter for East Coast Capital, emphasizing the strength of their fully systematic, data-driven strategy that thrives on market momentum and delivers steady, uncorrelated returns.
(October 2025)
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Simone Haslinger, Chief Executive Officer at East Coast Capital Management.
Simon explains ECCM’s fully systematic, data-driven trend-following approach across 80+ highly liquid global futures, designed to sidestep human bias and add low-correlated diversification to Australia-heavy portfolios. She highlights real-world examples from gold to feeder cattle, shares a strong multi-year track record, and contrasts liquid alternatives with illiquid private markets—making the case for a meaningful allocation to trend following.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Benjamin Harrison, Chief Investment Officer at Altor Capital.
In this conversation, Ben shares how the Altor AltFi Income Fund has delivered consistent performance over seven years, combining private credit investments with unique equity kickers. He also discusses their hands-on approach, focus on mid-market corporates, and where he sees the greatest opportunities for growth—making this a valuable watch for investors interested in private credit.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with David Franklyn, Chief Investment Officer & Fund Manager at Argonaut Funds Management.David outlines the Argonaut Natural Resources Fund, launched in 2020, which has delivered strong returns by investing across mining companies from majors like BHP to small-cap explorers. He highlights the fund's focus on themes such as energy transition and geopolitical risk, with gold as a safe haven and copper as the key growth driver, while noting that resources remain undervalued but vital to global growth.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Clint Maddock, Director and Co-Founder at Digital Asset Funds Management, about the firm’s Digital Income Fund and its market-neutral arbitrage strategy in the cryptocurrency space.
Clint explains how the fund has delivered consistent double-digit annual returns with minimal drawdowns, and why growing mainstream adoption of digital assets continues to create opportunities.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Richard Brennan, Strategy Ambassador at East Coast Capital Management.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Michael Poulsen, Co-founder and Portfolio Manager at Canopy Investors.
Michael shares insights into Canopy's global small and midcap investment strategy, its long-term, quality-driven approach, and how the partnership with Bennelong enables the team to focus on delivering strong returns through concentrated, high-conviction portfolios.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Richard Grace, Head of Digital Asset Strategy at Digital Asset Funds Management.
They discussed the evolving landscape of digital assets, exploring trends, opportunities, and the challenges faced by investors in this rapidly changing sector.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Winston Sammut, Director Property at Euree Asset Management.
They discuss the global market reaction to Donald Trump’s tariff announcements, as investors shift to safer assets amid rising uncertainty, falling interest rates, and fears of a trade war, with flow-on effects for REIT valuations and broader market sentiment.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Benjamin Harrison, Chief Investment Officer at Altor Capital.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks with Monik Kotecha Chief Investment Officer at Insync Fund Managers.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks to Nicholas Chaplin, Director and Portfolio Manager at Seed Funds Management. Nicholas shares insights on APRA's plan to phase out additional tier one bonds, which could destabilise the banking sector and impact retail investors.
The Seed Funds Management Hybrid Income Fund has a track record of 9 years and 5 months and has outperformed the Solactive Australian Hybrid Securities (Net) benchmark since inception in October 2015, providing investors with an annualised return of 6.46% compared with the benchmark's return of 4.83% over the same period.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Richard Brennan, Strategy Ambassador at East Coast Capital Management.
East Coast Capital Management’s trend-following futures strategy has delivered strong risk-adjusted returns by dynamically adapting to market trends across currencies, commodities, and futures. In this discussion, they explore recent market volatility, key investment trends, and the role of trend-following in portfolio diversification.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Richard Brennan, Strategy Ambassador at East Coast Capital Management.
Key to its success were high commodity market allocations and a systematic, risk-managed approach, offering strong diversification benefits with low correlation to traditional asset classes like the ASX 200.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Richard Brennan Strategy Ambassador at East Coast Capital Management.
Topics discussed include: the success of ECCM's trend-following strategy, which recently earned an award for the company's flagship fund; and how global diversification and a focus on trending opportunities can enable consistent performance even in uncertain economic conditions.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks to Nichols Chaplin, Director and Portfolio Manager at Seed Funds Management.
Nicholas shares insights on APRA's plan to phase out additional tier one bonds, which could destabilise the banking sector and impact retail investors.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Benjamin Harrison, Chief Investment Officer at Altor Capital.
The Altor AltFi Income Fund has a track record of 6 years and 5 months and has outperformed the RBA Cash Rate + 5% benchmark since inception in April 2018, providing investors with an annualised return of 11.68% compared with the benchmark's return of 6.67% over the same period.
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Paul Sanger, Head of Sequoia Direct, speaks to Nicholas Chaplin, Director and Portfolio Manager at Seed Funds Management.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of FundMonitors.com, speaks with Nicholas Chaplin, Director & Portfolio Manager at
Seed Funds Management.
Chris Gosselin, CEO of Australian Fund Monitors, speaks to Nichols Chaplin, Director and Portfolio Manager at Seed Funds Management. Topics covered include: interest rates and inflation; US markets; volatility in equity markets; and bonds and hybrids.
