Building portfolios for life’s dry seasons
Troy Armstrong, founder and senior adviser at Larapinta Private, builds outside-super portfolios around a question his farming clients know well: how quickly can you reach your money when the season turns?
Why the next credit cycle rewards the managers with somewhere else to go
Yarra Capital Management’s Phil Strano says the run into Australian private credit has left investors holding one systemic exposure when the return...
Six cold calling lessons every adviser should know
Capital Conversations guests who have raised billions share six cold calling lessons, from warm introductions and research to rehearsal, plus three call...
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...
North backs Striver as the advice workforce runs top-heavy
Two in five advisers on the register have been practising for more than 20 years, and the cohort arriving behind them is less than half that size.
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...
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A 30-year institutional memory retires from the FAAA as reform workload peaks
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Former Aberdeen chief to lead Franklin Templeton Asia Pacific
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Private credit added $95 billion in four years. Its boards are only just catching up
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FinCap brings in a treasury specialist to back its private markets liquidity promise
Performance fees are becoming a ratings conviction factor
Zenith has upgraded the ClearBridge Select Opportunities Fund to highly recommended after five years at recommended. The trigger was not performance. Here is...
Why global small caps deserve a permanent place in portfolios
Goldman Sachs Asset Management’s Sadhvi Gupta says global small caps give investors a different set of businesses from their large cap holdings, and a...
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...
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...
When ethics and law don’t meet
Think Caddie's David Land uses the insurance industry to explore how much ethical flexibility can exist inside the law before regulators and the public react....
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...
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.
Aged care emerges as an infrastructure-style allocation for long-term capital
Datt Capital’s Emanuel Datt argues aged care offers infrastructure-style income as bed supply trails demand and private capital prices it like...
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...
An easy way to value MIN and BHP shares
The Mineral Resources Ltd (ASX:MIN) share price has fallen 19.9% since the start of 2025. It's probably worth asking, 'is the MIN share price in the money?'