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Asset Allocation

Go big, go now!

The famous 1915 illusion called “My Wife and My Mother-In-Law” is an apt illustration for what is happening at the moment in financial markets. Some people see the...
Tracey McNaughton
Tracey McNaughton
Escala Partners
Asset Allocation

Fed vs Equities: Finding the sweet spot

Opinion has been extremely divided about the recent Fed rate cut. Some say it was necessary and prudent, others say it wasn't needed, and there are even those who say...
Callum Thomas
Topdown Charts
Asset Allocation

Increasing our defensive positioning

Over the past week developments in the US-China trade dispute have deteriorated materially. On 1 August, the US declared negotiations with China were progressing too...
Scott Haslem
LGT Crestone
Asset Allocation

When the music stops and Buffett stops buying equities, what do you do?

What will investors do when they suddenly awaken to the fact that they are being fooled? Equity market price action has unquestionably divorced from underlying...
Jerome Lander
WealthLander
Asset Allocation

How do you go bankrupt in Europe?

It is a sign of the times when investors are asking these kinds of questions. How do you go bankrupt in Europe (or the US) when the central bank is your underwriter?...
Tracey McNaughton
Tracey McNaughton
Escala Partners
Asset Allocation

Gold & AREITs top the cross-asset performance tables

In this month’s Cross Asset Review produced by Foresight Analytics, we look at the performance of various asset classes in the last Financial Year. Central Bank policy...
Jay Kumar
Foresight Analytics
Asset Allocation

What housing elephant?

A few weeks ago I wrote about how the Australian housing market has diverged wildly from the typical boom/bust cycle. Today I want to address the elephant in the room...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Asset Allocation

Hamish Douglass' new fight plan

The Fed’s abrupt U-turn six months ago turned night into day, down into up, bear into bull. As Magellan's Hamish Douglass put it in this interview: “...the Fed...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
Asset Allocation

BlackRock Investment Institute reduces equity risk, goes overweight EM debt

The BlackRock Investment Institute (BII) said it now sees trade and geopolitical frictions as the principal driver of the global economy and markets, and as a result...
Nick Grove
Nick Grove
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Allocating in an uncomfortable market

In the last year, headwinds became crosswinds but what we all want to know is when will we see tailwinds in Australia, both in markets and financial services more...
Alva Devoy
Alva Devoy
Fidelity International
Asset Allocation

Why Aviva Investors is long US equities, underweight EM

After starting 2019 with a decisively risk-on view in equities, global asset manager Aviva Investors has scaled back its preference for the asset class and taken its...
Nick Grove
Nick Grove
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Why 1pc won’t do it

The RBA cut official interest rates for the second consecutive month last week. The objective is to reduce excess capacity in the labour market and generate inflation....
Tracey McNaughton
Tracey McNaughton
Escala Partners
Asset Allocation

Webinar: Building a diversified income strategy

Welcome to today’s webinar, where two wealth managers will explain how they go about building a diversified income strategy. The recent interest rate cuts from the...
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Expert Insights

Market trends to watch as we approach 2020

High valuations currently persist in both equities and bond markets, with the latter indicating that a recession is imminent and the former suggesting that the bulls...
Livewire Exclusive
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Desperately seeking hedges

While the future correlation structure of asset classes sounds rather pedestrian, it is in fact key to the outcomes for diversified long-term multi-asset portfolios...
Nick Morton
Nick Morton
Resonant Asset Management
Asset Allocation

Stay invested but prepare to be nimble

As we think about asset allocation through the remainder of 2019 and into 2020, there are four clear themes that investors should consider. Despite an incredibly...
Raf Choudhury
Raf Choudhury
State Street Global Advisors
Asset Allocation

What bond markets are really telling politicians

Bond markets look like they are pricing disaster, while equity markets are pricing an extended boom. But maybe there is a more nuanced message in there, the same one...
Damien Klassen
Nucleus Wealth
Asset Allocation

The Australian economy is not bulletproof

RBA Governor Philip Lowe set a new bar for transparency in May, giving a strong signal in his comments that the RBA was poised to ease rates and delivered on this with...
Simon Doyle
Schroders
Asset Allocation

Monetary policy and navigating by the stars

The Reserve Bank has been doing some stargazing lately. Not the kind that sit high in the sky but rather the kind that help it determine how tight or how loose...
Tracey McNaughton
Tracey McNaughton
Escala Partners
Asset Allocation

Key themes from 68 fund manager meetings

In our last wire, Dominant themes in 5 key asset classes, we highlighted the conservative stance most managers had taken following the extreme volatility during the...
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Nick Reddaway
Nick Reddaway
Drummond Capital Partners
Asset Allocation

Continued AUD weakness delivers strong and positive currency effects for unhedged investors

In this month’s Cross Asset Review produced by Foresight Analytics, we look at the outperformance of domestic assets despite losses in global equity markets and rising...
Jay Kumar
Foresight Analytics
Rapid Fire

Credit Suisse unveils the ABC portfolio

Despite a 17 per cent drawdown in the wake of the GFC, Andrew McAuley the CIO at Credit Suisse, says it took just 12 months to for their portfolios to bounce back. Not...
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Macro in action: Investing for today’s economy

While speculating on the future direction of interest rates, currencies, and monetary policy can generate great headlines, it often raises the question; ‘what does...
Patrick Poke
A Rich Life
Asset Allocation

What the asset allocation scorecard is telling us right now

It has been a big few weeks for financial markets. From the escalation and then de-escalation of the trade wars (Mexican tariffs on, then off), to deteriorating...
Tracey McNaughton
Tracey McNaughton
Escala Partners
Asset Allocation

Benefits of objective-driven model portfolios

Model portfolios are a predetermined combination of funds designed to meet the needs of a broad group of investors. Some providers define...
Matt Reynolds
Matt Reynolds
Capital Group
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