Investor's Bookshelf: A chief economist's guide to Australia's ETF revolution

In 2016, David Bassanese, currently the chief economist at Betashares, one of Australia’s leading ETF providers, took on an ambitious task: to demystify exchange traded funds (ETFs) for Australian investors. His book, The Australian ETF Guide, emerged as a pioneering work in a market where ETFs were still a novelty. "I'm a macro economist, so I'm not a stock picker. I was never trained to be a stock picker, so the world of funds management, in that sense, wasn't open to me," Bas…