Alternatives

Alternative investments continue to be prominent in the portfolios of some of the world’s most sophisticated investors, including sovereign wealth funds, endowments...

The last couple of months have been extremely volatile to say the least, and this has naturally presented a lot of challenges for investors. Recent years have seen...

Earnings season is heating up in earnest, giving investors a clear glimpse into the economic impact of the global lockdowns designed to slow the spread of the...

Following the biggest market sell-off since the Global Financial Crisis in 2008 and volatility not seen since the 1987 crash, we turn to our investment teams for their...

2019. What a year it’s been. Headlines were dominated by trade wars, franking credits, astronomical multiples for tech stocks, failed IPO’s, the long-awaited crash...

Credit Suisse believes global growth will be a sluggish 2.5% in 2020 with a mild recovery in industrial production. A de-escalation of the trade war should lead to a...

We believe the thing investors can’t ignore for 2020 is how to get exposure to alternative asset classes. At the beginning of the year, we wrote about the reasons to...

(Ed note: first published October 2019): By now, the situation is clear. Many economies are gradually slowing down or have already entered a recession (think European...

I don’t have a background in wealth management and like many of you I’m learning by reading articles from wealth professionals and speaking with more experienced...

Mandatory retirement savings in Australia are worth $2.7 trillion and growing. Equity markets are arguably looking fully priced, particularly as the rhetoric of a...

Commercial Real Estate Debt is widely accepted as an asset class in the institutional and wholesale investment sector. Over the past ten years, Qualitas has created a...

The growing popularity of Venture Capital (VC) has enabled some remarkable and innovative businesses. The attractive returns of many VC funds have stoked further...

The ultimate aim of investing in private equity markets is to generate a return higher than what you would receive by investing in public markets. But while the...

Philip King, CIO at Regal, is one of Australia’s most experienced investors and we recently took the chance to hit him with three simple questions about investing....

The investment process at Regal Funds Management allows them vary market exposure depending on the prevailing conditions. Simply put, Regal like to be ‘long’ in bull...

This month we provide an update on how our high and ultra-high-net-worth, family office and not-for-profit clients are invested. Importantly, we also take a look at...

Part of the research process at Regal is to filter sell side research for new ideas. Philip King, CIO at Regal Funds Management, says this process generates long ideas...

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a chart is worth a million of them. So we asked the experts to isolate the charts you need to be watching right now. Read...

Investors have likely heard asset allocation specialists advise increasing portfolio exposure to 'alternatives' given the current market conditions. Invesco's...

We believe there are three key themes that will persist in 2019; divergence, disruption and debt-overhang. Invesco's Chief Global Market Strategist, Kristina Hooper,...