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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...

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...

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 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...

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...

The long end has stopped taking orders from the Fed

US Treasury yields climbed to a 19-year high on a soft inflation print, breaking the reflex that once made duration a simple call. Amundi's Rajesh Puri on what...

Herding: the safest-feeling trade carries the most risk

Systematic trend following treats herding as fuel rather than danger, and East Coast Capital Management's Simone Haslinger uses Korea's leveraged ETF crash and...

The FY26 private market returns advisers should not expect twice

FinCap’s Ben Davis says FY26 rewarded discipline in credit and punished casual manager selection everywhere else, and advisers who cannot name the engine...

Fixed income: a hawkish Fed leaves the long end exposed

Washington's fiscal and monetary arms are pulling apart, and US Treasury yields are where Australian portfolios feel the strain. Franklin Templeton's Sonal...

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...

Adviser development: what an AI simulation can and cannot teach

SIAA has launched DART, an AI-powered toolkit for developing advisers. Chief executive Maria Lykouras says simulated client interviews and ethical dilemmas...

Fund managers are moving their emerging markets desks to where the index already lives

Amundi has moved four senior emerging markets investors to Hong Kong and Singapore. With four Asian markets holding 79 per cent of the index, advisers should...

The founder who wants to be the least important person in the business 

Arrow Private Wealth's Peter Leggett shares six leadership lessons on culture, trust and stewardship, offering financial advisers a practical model for...

While others step back, Integro and Coastline build for risk

Most practices kept their risk advice licence and quietly stopped using it. Integro Private Wealth is moving the other way, merging with Coastline Private...

Perennial shuts its resources flagship, then builds a bigger one

Perennial Partners closed a resources fund after a 49.8 per cent year and launched a global version with ten times the runway. The fund capacity question...