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 ambition. His reads on lithium, gold and retail follow the same logic.
The number nobody tells you: why your fund's return isn't your return
Morningstar’s investor return gap shows fund returns and investor returns diverge, and advisers should measure both time-weighted and money-weighted outcomes.
Next-generation infrastructure: growth without giving up the downside
Partners Group's Marc Meier says next-generation infrastructure keeps the asset class's downside protection while adding real growth, and that secondaries are...
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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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?
What a big bank teaches you about being a better adviser
Alex Thompson left a career in institutional banking to advise private clients at Viola Private Wealth, and found that the discipline forged in markets...
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...
What private markets teach you about picking the right room
Tim Whybourne, Managing Partner at Emanuel Whybourne & Loehr, has built a wealth management footprint on a modest premise, that his edge is not original...
A new managed accounts entrant arrives with a focus on implementation
Pacific Portfolio Solutions has appointed Kyle Lidbury, formerly chief investment officer of Perpetual’s wealth management business, to lead its Australian...
Why step-down care accommodation is drawing private capital
ASA Real Estate Partners’ Tim Slattery sees purpose-built homes for Australians with life-changing injuries as a source of long-dated, inflation-linked...
When the downgrade is the entry point not the exit
Insight Investment’s Syed Zamil says fallen angel bonds have delivered equity-like returns at roughly 60 per cent of equity volatility over 20 years. Forced...
Why scale is often the disqualifier in metro industrial property
The industry treats scale as the ultimate advantage in industrial property. Centennial’s CEO Paul Ford argues it’s not the be all and end all : in...
The journey of an accidental ethicist
Some executives measure a career in turnarounds: the worst-performing region, handed over almost as a dare, turned within months into the best. Tony Beaven has...
Who gets your client's super when a stepchild is in the picture?
Death benefits for blended families are no longer decided by financial dependency alone. Karen Robinson of Equity Trustees explains how AFCA now weighs ongoing...
Trust tax: the election that asks families to freeze the future
Treasury's minimum tax on discretionary trusts offers a fixed entitlements election as the cheap way out of restructuring. Advisers Will Hamilton and Troy...
How to treat the SPIVA scorecard as a portfolio construction tool, not a verdict
Andrew Wielandt, director at DP Wealth Advisory, says the latest SPIVA Australia data reinforces a core and satellite approach he has run since attending a US...
Morgans Financial's seven-year commitment to rural Australia earns Rural Aid patronage
Morgans Financial has become a Rural Aid patron after seven years of quiet backing, a reminder that rural clients often need support advice practices cannot...
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...
The WiseTech bull case after a difficult result
WiseTech Global fell 11 per cent on results day, but Datt Capital sees a different story in the numbers. Here is the bull case, the risks, and what FY27...
Emerging markets: the AI sell-off and the value opportunity
Pzena's Rakesh Bordia says the market has crushed emerging-market IT services stocks on the fear that AI will make them obsolete, and that the sell-off is a...
Why metro industrial wins conviction | INSight #501 with Alex Edwards from Centennial
Centennial’s Alex Edwards says land scarcity, a deeper tenant pool and the most active leasing market give metro industrial the firm’s highest...
The great divergence: income, sectors and active management with Damian Collins from Westbridge Funds Management
In commercial property, the outcome of an asset is shaped long after the purchase. Damian Collins, Chairman of Westbridge Funds Management, explains why active...
Deep value in the AI shadow with Rakesh Bordia from Pzena Investment Management
Rakesh Bordia of Pzena Investment Management sets out the discipline behind deep value investing, and the judgement at its centre, distinguishing a sound...
The defensive sleeve is no longer automatic: inside the Income & Defensive Symposium
Advisers in Sydney and Melbourne worked through fixed income, private credit and real assets, and why the defensive sleeve can no longer run on autopilot.
The French bond blow out
France’s fiscal deficit stays high as a split parliament stalls the budget, and the 2027 election offers bond markets a choice between the RN’s savings...
The float that wasn’t
Firmus pulls its $44 billion float after investors balk at the price, and an OpenAI revenue shortfall deepens the chill. The withdrawal shows why a good...
4 best numbers to value CBA shares
Trying to value the Commonwealth Bank of Australia (ASX:CBA) share price? Here are 4 key metrics you need to consider.