The ‘air pocket’ in small caps and the stocks set to close it
Ellerston Capital’s Jack Briggs says low starting valuations leave Australian small caps priced to reward earnings beats, finding opportunities in South East Queensland infrastructure, housing undersupply and a recovering software sector.
The tax system has made franked dividends worth more
The CGT reforms landing in July 2027 make franked dividends more valuable to retirees drawing income from their portfolios. ClearBridge's Reece Birtles...
The long end is paying again, and not for the usual reason
Long-dated bond yields have climbed to levels unseen in almost 20 years. Amundi's Monica Defend and Amaury D'Orsay explain the forces behind the move and where...
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Member-elected board keeps FAAA “close to the advisers”
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Super wrap accounts offer a compelling alternative between pooled funds and SMSFs
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The ASX 200’s concentration is closer to normal than it looks
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The new research portal bringing fund ratings and portfolio reporting together
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The RBA is tightening into a slowdown. Roy Keenan is locking in the yield
How secondaries are unlocking evergreen fund liquidity
Duration is the engine of private market returns, but for open-ended evergreen funds, it can create a structural liquidity problem. Secondaries compress that duration, turning the promise of liquidity into more predictable tools for recycling and compounding.
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Jennifer Goldsworthy's vision for advice is unmistakably her own
Jennifer Goldsworthy stumbled into financial planning on a deal with her father at 17. Two decades on, she owns the financial planning business and has rebuilt...
Why emerging markets demand a contrarian, selective mindset
Emerging markets remain one of the world's largest opportunity sets. So why are investors still overlooking them today?
Why lasting wealth is a habit, not a strategy
Catherine Ye trained to be an accountant before advice found her. More than a decade on, she runs Bluepond Financial Planning on a simple conviction: that...
Integro’s buy and build strategy reaches Queensland
Managing partner Justin Gilmour sees growing demand in Queensland from high-net-worth individuals, business owners and families, with acquisitions across three...
Capital Group's systems and the rhythm of your practice
Capital Group’s incoming chief information officer arrives in November from a global bank rather than another fund manager, and his appointment gives...
Three ways rising rates reach the share market
Ellerston's Jack Briggs explains why rate-driven small cap exposure deserves closer scrutiny, using Wagners to show how infrastructure spending and new growth...
Why cheaper AI is making hyperscaler bonds more expensive
The blended price of AI inference has halved since May while hyperscaler bonds have widened sharply. Bentham Asset Management's Richard Quin explains why the...
Bonds are back but this no time to buy the index
Franklin Templeton Fixed Income’s Richard Rauch says real yields have made fixed income worth owning again, and that advisers who get there through the...
CPA Australia wants every trust rule on the table before the EET election
CPA Australia’s Jenny Wong urges the Senate to make discretionary trust reforms complete and workable before families choose, citing 12 unreleased...
How Australia built super, told by the journalist who watched it grow
The late Greg Bright’s Our Money in Their Hands, launched in Sydney last week, telling the story of how Australian superannuation came of age, and Sheridan...
Longer retirements are forcing a rethink of how drawdown portfolios get built
Russell Investments' Neil Rogan outlines a retirement income strategy that splits client assets across three time horizons, addressing sequencing risk and...
AHRC rallies 26 organisations against financial abuse of older Australians
The AHRC has united 26 organisations against financial elder abuse, with the FAAA’s Phil Anderson saying advisers hold a unique position to detect warning...
The confident wrong answer: AI's new risk, and why advice survives
Qualitas's Michael Kollo says AI can now do in four hours the due diligence that once took analysts three months, but the value comes from structure and...
What the trade data says about BRICS+ ambitions
Kim Catechis, senior investment strategist at the Franklin Templeton Institute, argues that BRICS+ has become more representative and less able to act together...
Reporting season favoured delivery over promise
Datt Capital's Emanuel Datt says reporting season split the market into companies funding their own growth and those still asking shareholders to fund an...
Concentration in the S&P 500 is an outcome, not a design choice
S&P Dow Jones Indices’ Amit Pathak says the index’s top 10 weight has more than doubled in a decade because US earnings concentrated first, and that the...
Strategy access over structure debate | INSight #504 with Alex Edwards from Centennial
Centennial’s Alex Edwards says listed versus unlisted turns on strategy access, and infill metro industrial strategies are probably unavailable through...
When the fallen angels fly higher with Syed Zamil from Insight Investment
When a bond is cut from investment grade to high yield, many index-constrained investors have little choice but to sell, and that forced selling tends to push...
What wealthy families value with Denis Orrock and Grant Patterson
For Australia’s wealthy, strong returns are expected, but they are rarely the reason an advice relationship lasts. Drawing on Praemium’s inaugural...
From Future Proof to Wall Street, advisers get a preview of the next era of advice
Across California and New York, the INUSA Study Tour takes Australian advisers through AI, private credit and infrastructure, with one conclusion: clients keep...
Private credit research: macro conditions, sector stress, and the governance response
Trusler Consulting and Academy’s latest research tracks record redemption requests, widening secondaries discounts and rising mortgage arrears. It finds...
Why good financial advice has never been harder to get
Adviser numbers are down almost half since 2018, leaving a missing middle of millions without affordable financial advice. A J.P. Morgan report sets out the...
Qantas (ASX:QAN) share price rises as travel demand persists in FY27
The Qantas Airways Ltd (ASX:QAN) share price is up 0.6% after the airline revealed a promising FY27 trading update.