Our Co-CIO Hugh Selby-Smith recently joined The Finance Garage podcast.
Hugh shared his perspective on how Talaria’s options-based strategy can help investors manage risk while pursuing steady returns. The conversation covered the importance of downside protection in volatile markets, the role of valuation discipline, and how alternative approaches to investing can provide more consistent outcomes for clients.
For those navigating uncertain markets, Hugh’s insights offer a different way to think about global equity investing and how to balance opportunity with protection.
Hugh is the Co-Chief Investment Officer and Head of Research at Talaria, having joined the business in 2016.
He began working in international equity markets in London in 1999 covering a range of global industries and sectors at Kleinwort Benson and Goldman Sachs, where he was consistently recognized by the likes of Institutional Investor, Greenwich Associates and Thomson Extel for his work.
He subsequently joined the international equities specialist TT International where he was part of the six-person team responsible for managing the firms long only Institutional Funds.
Hugh holds a Bachelor of Commerce and a Bachelor of Letters from Melbourne University, and co-founded Talaria Asset Management in 2018.