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

Views from the Top

Fidelity's Global CIO shares his 4 favourite asset classes for 2024

Global CIO Andrew McCaffery also tells me that their predictions for a soft landing have more than doubled in just the last three months.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Beware the great equity unwind

Equity investors are focused on a potential soft landing. Longer-term they may face bigger headaches.
Lakshman Anantakrishnan
ANZ Private
Asset Allocation

Art of smoothing returns in global markets | Hugh Selby-Smith

Murdoch speaks with Hugh Selby-Smith, the Co-CIO at Talaria Capital about global equities and smoothing returns via option strategies.
Murdoch Gatti
York Wealth Management
Asset Allocation

How alternatives can address your 60/40 portfolio blues

Individual investors have long been told that a diversified portfolio of public equities and bonds is the key to a successful retirement plan. While that held true for...
Apollo Global Management
Apollo Global Management
Rapid Fire

Mid-caps the place to be in a soft landing: Fidelity

Fidelity International's Global CIO answers five of our Rapid Fire questions.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Rapid Fire

2 things that could upset the market consensus in 2024

Lazard's Chief Market Strategist Ron Temple answers our pressing questions in a classic edition of Livewire's Rapid Fire.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Views from the Top

Why Lazard's Temple would buy equities over bonds even at today's prices

Lazard's chief market strategist Ron Temple updates his views on the US economy, China, fixed income, and geopolitical risk.
Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Six grey swans that could move markets in 2024

That the future is always uncertain is a given, yet thinking about scenarios that diverge from a base case helps inform the risk-aware approaches we apply across our...
Lori Heinel
State Street Global Advisors
Asset Allocation

Not middle of the pack: Why we back Australian mid-caps

Where Auscap Asset Management finds sustainable earners at reasonable prices, including three mid-cap stock examples.
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Tim Carleton
Auscap Asset Management
Asset Allocation

Markets are overpriced, but we see opportunity in these 5 areas

The Affluence Investor Letter looks back on 2023, our investment performance, and where we see attractive opportunities for 2024.
Daryl Wilson
Affluence Funds Management
Asset Allocation

The year ahead for the major sectors

Perspectives outlining some of the key themes we think will drive the major industry sectors in 2024.
Neuberger Berman
Neuberger Berman
Asset Allocation

Private credit is a globally attractive opportunity – investors should take notice

The global private credit market has more than tripled over the past 10 years.
Nehemiah Richardson
Pengana Capital Group
Asset Allocation

Is the Fed running late to the Goldilocks party?

Patience needed on US rate cut prospects
David Cassidy
Wilsons Advisory
Asset Allocation

Investing In Private Growth Tech Businesses | Dan Winter & Rowan Grant

Murdoch speaks with Dan Winter & Rowan Grant, the founders & PM's at Arbor Capital about investing in private tech.
Murdoch Gatti
York Wealth Management
Asset Allocation

12 ideas for investing in a "Donald Rumsfeld-ian world"

2024 has been a harder year to predict than 2023, and it shows in the wide array of high-level views and top conviction ideas.
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Hans Lee
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation
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2024 ETF Playbook: Coming in to land

Having enjoyed a better than feared consumer-led recovery from COVID lockdowns, Australia’s economy in recent years has quickly been beset by a new problem: very high...
Patrick Poke
Patrick Poke
Betashares
Outlook Series

We asked you where markets will be in 2024: Here's what 5000 of you said

This wire unpacks the key insights from the recent Outlook Series survey, in which nearly 5000 Livewire & Market Index readers participated
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Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

Why we are now underweight Australian stocks

We are overweight in equity markets with superior fundamentals - but Australia is not one of them.
T. Rowe Price
T. Rowe Price
Asset Allocation

Why capital preservation (and not growth) should be your top investing goal for 2024

I share four actions you can take to help preserve capital in a year where downside risks dominate the outlook.
Isaac Poole
Ascalon Capital
Asset Allocation

Why markets will meet an "inflection point" in 2024

This year, the global economy could be in for a big transition - and investors need to be prepared.
Jon Maier
Global X ETFs
Asset Allocation

5 trends we expect to impact private credit in 2024

Could 2024 offer more opportunity to deploy capital for private credit investors?
Alex Hone
Keyview
Asset Allocation

The Fed is for turning

Jerome Powell gave investors an early Christmas gift, but they may have gotten a little carried away.
Sebastian Mullins
Schroders
Outlook Series

How to invest $1 million in 2024

Find out how two of Australia's top financial advisers are building portfolios for 2024 and beyond.
James Marlay
Livewire Markets
Asset Allocation

View from the (double?) top

Global equity markets have continued to perform strongly in December (~3%) after November’s sharp advance higher.
Alexandre Ventelon
Morgan Stanley Wealth Management
Asset Allocation

Has Christmas come early for Aussie equities? | Tim Carleton

Murdoch speaks with Tim Carleton the Chief Investment Officer at AUSCAP Asset Management about the outlook for Australian share market.
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Murdoch Gatti
York Wealth Management
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