Like many people, Ashley O’Connor, head of investment strategy at Invesco Australia, did not exactly plan for the career he ultimately embarked upon. But some serendipity brought him to a role he truly values.
The benchmark S&P/ASX 200 index rose 86.5 points, or 1.3 per cent, on Tuesday to 6,806.4 points, while the broader All Ordinaries gauge added 81.4 points, or 1.2 per cent, to 7,030. Nine of the ASX’s 11 sectors gained ground, with real estate and healthcare the only ones to retreat. The mining sector was the…
The quantum of US companies has halved since 1996, which plays into the hands of late stage venture gurus.
It’s a cliché that sometimes, the best way to view a problem is to go somewhere else and look at it from a different perspective.
If managing a bond portfolio is a daily tug-of-war between art and science, Adam Grotzinger, senior fixed income portfolio manager at Neuberger Berman in Chicago, is on the side of the former.
Many people at the top of funds management travel around the world to work in various locations, to build a career.
As with everywhere else on the globe where they’ve been introduced, exchange-traded funds (ETFs) have grown like crazy in Australia.
All fund managers like to talk about protecting capital, but at Ruffer Investment Management, it is a more embedded philosophy than most. The firm was founded by Jonathan Ruffer on the principle that “investors like making money, but they hate losing money more.” Ruffer is built to preserve capital for the long-term: centred on “absolute-return investing with…
Ty Cockle, chief executive officer of Financial Foundations Australia (FFA) initially wanted to be a teacher, and trained to be one, but it was difficult to escape the pull of the family business. The son of renowned Victorian adviser John Cockle, he found the conversations of his childhood inexorably pulled him back to advice. “I’ve…
All-weather investing has a simple aim – consistent positive returns, regardless of how the financial markets perform. It follows that all-weather investors typically have highly flexible investment strategies, that allow them not only to diversify across asset classes, but back their judgment in a wide range of areas to manage for – and benefit from…
