A holomorphic function $f$ on a simply connected domain $\Omega$ is said to possess a universal Taylor series about a point in $\Omega$ if the partial sums of that series approximate arbitrary polynomials on arbitrary compacta $K$ outside $\Omega$ (provided only that $K$ has connected complement). This paper shows that this property is not conformally invariant, and, in the case where $\Omega$ is the unit disc, that such functions have extreme angular boundary behaviour.