175: Jonathan Shapiro – Investigating and Exposing the Crafty Schemes of Public Companies

Chat With Traders

Tessa Dao

Education, Business, Investing

4.9 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2019

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Jonathan Shapiro's a senior reporter at the Australian Financial Review. While he writes about a range of subjects from banking to hedge funds to private equity, he's renown for stories that uncover dishonesty and the crafty schemes of listed companies—for which, he's won several awards. Our conversation begins with Jonathan telling the story of Blue Sky Alternative, a fund manager that came unstuck following the release of a short sellers research report. From there, we roll into a very detailed discussion about about Jonathan's investigative work on Big Un. Without saying too much, Big was a video marketing company listed on the Australian stock market and a top performer in 2017. But as you'll soon hear, Jonathan discovered much of it was smoke in mirrors... Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.0	Markets, speculation, and risk.
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0:45.8	What's up, good folks?
0:47.0	Welcome to Chat with traders podcast.
0:49.6	This is episode 175.
0:52.8	My guest is Jonathan Shapiro, a senior reporter at the Australian Financial Review.
0:58.6	While Jonathan writes about a range of subjects from banking to hedge funds to private equity,
1:04.1	he's renowned for stories that uncover dishonesty and the crafty schemes of listed companies,
1:10.3	for which he's won several awards.
1:13.1	Our conversation begins with Jonathan telling the story of BlueSky alternative, a fund
1:18.1	manager that came unstuck following the release of a short seller's research report.
1:24.2	From there, we roll into a very detailed discussion about Jonathan's investigative work on
1:29.7	Big Un.
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