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The multi-asset perspective, covering trends across key asset classes and relative weightings between them.

Asset Allocation

The case for active currency management

Financial advisers and investors may have a tendency to shy away from taking an active approach to currency management due to the perception that currency movements...
Brad Matthews
Brad Matthews Investment Strategies
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Simon Doyle: Solving the portfolio puzzle

In 2007, Simon Doyle found himself in a tricky situation, confronted by a room of agitated investors. The returns of his portfolio, whilst positive, had not kept up...
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Get ready for the reflation trade...

Chris Watling from London-based Longview Economics has been a vocal bear for some time and recently called for an Australian recession. The real question now though is...
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Dominant themes in 5 key asset classes

Given the sudden volatility in global markets at the end of 2018, we felt it was important to meet with fund managers we currently invest in and seek out potential new...
Nick Reddaway
Nick Reddaway
Drummond Capital Partners
Asset Allocation

The morning after the night before

Fourth quarter 2018 saw the market essentially pricing in a recession via a strong risk-off sell down; economically sensitive (cyclical and financial) stocks were hit...
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Tim Johnston
Tyndall AM
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The key to success in emerging companies

When investing in emerging companies, it’s the quality of the management team that matters above all else, says Jonathan Pearce, Portfolio Manager at the CVC Emerging...
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Hitting the sweet spot of private equity

Private equity can provide investors with uncorrelated and compelling returns and diversification benefits. This has clearly been noticed by the highly successful...
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Asset Allocation

10 surprises for 2019

We asked our portfolio managers to share their views on potential surprises for 2019 which on balance of probabilities are unlikely to happen but shouldn’t be written...
Tony Sutton
Sintra Capital
Expert Insights

Here's why you should think twice before selling

It’s never been easier to trade. It’s cheaper than ever, you have unlimited access to information, and you can execute a trade from the device sitting at your...
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Asset Allocation

Another way to diversify your portfolio

We are no longer as reliant on traditional, finite energy sources as we once were. Instead, the world is shifting towards alternative and renewable sources of...
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abrdn
Asset Allocation

Why banning Huawei could be worse for the rest of the world than for China

The internet is fast becoming split between US control or sponsored and China controlled or sponsored. This article will in no way comment on the security concerns...
Josh Best
Josh Best
KIS Capital Partners
Asset Allocation

A forgotten asset class: The case for cash

Equities, fixed income, and alternatives tend to get all the media attention and headlines, but there's an oft-forgotten asset class that underpins most investor's...
Tony Togher
First Sentier Investors
Asset Allocation

Australia's regional renaissance is just getting started

As our crammed buses, ailing trains and clogged roads suggest, Australian cities have failed to invest at a rate consistent with our population growth. In 1998, Sydney...
Tom Forrest
Tom Forrest
APN Property Group
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It’s time to put some cash to work

Joe Magyer, Chief Investment Officer at Lakehouse Capital, says he always looks forward to reporting season and he is especially excited for the results about to be...
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Is Amazon cheaper than Coke?

Fund managers and CEOs around the world have been adjusting their estimates and guidance in the wake of the recent volatility. As defensive stocks have come back to...
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Asset Allocation

Coppo: Stocks that jump on results keep trending for months

Reviewing the data for the last six reporting Seasons, I consider here how stocks that were either up or down on the day of reporting subsequently traded over the...
Richard Coppleson
Bell Potter
Asset Allocation

No time to be pig-headed

The trade war is dominating headlines and shaking investor confidence in China. But as we enter Year of the Pig, it’s worth remembering this is a long-term growth...
Martin Gilbert
Martin Gilbert
abrdn
Rapid Fire

Padley: The problem with "buy and hold"

Popular wisdom from the likes of Warren Buffett, Jack Bogle, and Burton Malkiel (author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street) states that it's near-impossible to...
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Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

What to do in a soft retail environment

Entering the local reporting season it’s unlikely that sentiment toward the domestic housing market could be much worse. By and large, we share the popular concerns...
Rob Tucker
Chester High Conviction Fund
Asset Allocation

6 Ways to fight Fear With Facts

You wouldn’t be human if you didn’t fear loss. Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman demonstrated this with his loss-aversion theory, showing that people...
Matt Reynolds
Matt Reynolds
Capital Group
Asset Allocation

How to be prepared for inevitable stock market corrections

Sharemarkets can drift seemingly higher and higher without a hitch for many years, then one day due to sudden turbulence, markets will often ‘pop’ and correct. How can...
Anton Tagliaferro
IML
Asset Allocation

Klarman, Buffett, and Beating the Market

Reading through Patrick Poke’s article yesterday analysing Seth Klarman’s annual letter for Baupost Group ("Klarman: A Buying Opportunity"), a particular passage stood...
Luke Cummings
Harvest Lane Asset Management
Asset Allocation

The beginning of the end of the bubble?

Jeremy Grantham, Co-Founder and Chief Investment Strategist at US-based $75 billion fund, GMO, has some form in calling out bubbles. So it was notable that their asset...
Alex Cowie
Alex Cowie
Asset Allocation

4 tips for a weather proof portfolio

Reading the financial press about the outlook for 2019? If so, you’ve probably got another reason to stay on holiday for as long as possible. According to some, an...
Pete Morrissey
Dexus
Asset Allocation

The predictive power of analysing company reporting dates

With the February 2019 reporting season upon us, we were interested to see that one of the largest holdings in the AMP Capital Australian Emerging Companies Fund plan...
Matt Griffin
Maple-Brown Abbott
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