The finance industry has many moving parts, many of them hidden from the view of ordinary investors. Simon is a Senior Vice President at Singapore Exchange where he works with indices, and before that he was at S&P Dow Jones Indices. This means that he directly works in the creation of indices on which ETFs are based.

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"If you look at the composition of the Australian stock market, you'll see that it's heavily comprised of banks and resources stocks. So on any given day, you can be pretty certain that the drivers of the underlying performance of the ASX are driven by the banks or the resources stocks."

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