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Nick Peach

Nick Peach

Managing Director and Head of APAC iShares at BlackRock; previously at Goldman Sachs leading equities electronic services in Asia

Jun 9, 2026

12:40
Do you have a signature hole? Is there one hole that stands out that you'd like to highlight?
12:45
The 18th scrape is fairly close to the river, the Wimmera River.
12:51
So you've got to be a bit spot on if you've got a bit of a draw and it's all downhill towards the river.
12:58
So you've got to be pretty careful with that one.
13:01
What would you recommend if people were looking for things to do in Dimboola? What else would they do other than play golf at Dimboola Golf
13:06
Course? There's plenty to do at Dimboola actually.
13:10
There's plenty of unique shops in town which are attracting a lot of attention.
13:16
They've got some walking tracks around the common and there's also a walking slash mountain bike track that goes all the way to Chaparrit and back.
8:02
Maybe talk a little bit about how is that changing the ETF story in Asia when you have this rise of the direct investor.
8:09
Absolutely.
8:10
If you were to look across the region, you would actually see the rise of the digital investor occurring in many of the markets that we have out here, and it is having a profound impact on the ecosystem.
8:19
If you think about the ETF, it is a more digitally accessible wrapper for investment than the other alternatives, which typically are a bit more analog, if you like.
8:29
And so if you look at the growth rates and you actually look at where that growth is coming from, what you'll see, whether it's Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan in particular, you're seeing a huge uptake, and it's actually becoming one of the driving forces for ETF adoption in the region, which again, to bust a myth perhaps, is that ETFs out here were largely institutional products previously, and they still are.
8:53
But by far the fastest growing segment that we see adopting the ETF is that direct investor.
11:55
What do the next couple chapters of this book look like? Nick, maybe start with you.
11:59
Sure, and that's always just such a fun question to answer.

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