Funds management and dividend guru Geoff Wilson has logged on.
After several years lurking as an anonymous user, a trip to New York meeting the likes of Twitter power user convinced the Wilson Asset Management founder that he was really, really missing out. And so, three weeks ago, @GeoffWilsonWAM was born. And hasn’t it been rather distracting.and Bloomberg pieces, engagement bait, along with the requisite inspirational quotes.
What makes Wilson’s arrival quite peculiar though is that he has also dived feet-first into the crazed corners of #FinTwit, that gathering of bored banker types hiding behind pseudonyms who keep the social media platform permanently open on their second or third screens. At Wilson’s arrival, they’ve gone hog wild.
An avalanche of franking credits content has been directed at him. The airing of the Boomer slurs. And the posting of countless memes , including one whose smutty origin would defile a financial newspaper.Wilson’s taking it all in stride. “If you’d asked me who Gigachad was yesterday I’d have had no idea,” he said. He looked it up before forming his response, naturally.“In the meme market, you either crack or play the game. I’m trying to understand the rules of engagement.
Wilson hopes to amass some 80,000 followers, and views it as a way to ensure the fund has “a strong voice”. As, WAM already had one. Still, this is certainly a new audience, a world away from packing exhibition centres with dividend-hungry retirees drawn for the insight and the Scotch Fingers.It doesn’t take much, he insisted. And anyway, “learning about anything is fantastic”. “To me it’s invigorating, it’s exciting.
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