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Back in black: the new rules of fixed income

At the recent Investment Leaders Forum in Byron Bay, Dr. Christian Baylis, the founder and CIO of Fortlake Asset Management, delivered a dense, high-speed...

Craft, curiosity and capital: Inside the Cooper Investors Endeavour Fund

It’s easy to forget, when listening to Marcus Guzzardi and Geoff Di Felice speak about investing, that their job is fundamentally about numbers. Not because...

When investment strategy meets public-policy imperatives

The attraction of a specialist managed fund should be in the manager's ability to position the fund to tap into strong and sustained tailwinds. The Barwon...

Rehabilitating duration: the hidden strength of fixed income

For much of the last decade, fixed income has been the dinner guest that no one wanted to sit next to. Low yields, scarring losses, and correlation breakdowns...

Recognising the risk and reaping the reward: Hollie Briggs on bias, behaviour and disciplined investing

Thankfully, Byron Bay's voracious shark population spared Hollie Briggs, as she swam off Tallow Beach for an hour. That meant the head of global product...

Luck, skill, and the case for spread-based investing

In a wide-ranging and deeply considered contribution at the Investment Leaders Forum in Byron Bay, Hugh Selby-Smith, co-chief investment officer at Talaria...

Industry calls for bipartisan commitment to rule out taxation of unrealised gains

With the election campaign entering its final stages, a coalition of leading industry associations is calling on the Prime Minister and the Opposition Leader...

Smaller platforms have starred on ASX, but brokers back them to keep rising

Since the banking and financial services royal commission, smaller, independent, specialist wealth platforms have been able to grow their market share at the...

In private equity, it’s best to be swimming with the tide

Nick Miller prefers swimming with the tide. He definitely realised this when swimming around Hong Kong Island as part of a six-person relay team that set a...

Evergreen secondaries exposure striking a chord with advice market

The secondaries market for private credit and private equity is finding growing appeal from an advice industry constantly searching for yield plays in the...

Delving further and deeper in the PE ocean improves the catch

When Tyler Jayroe told a friend he was visiting Australia for The Inside Network’s Alternatives Symposium, the friend – a marine life enthusiast – told...

Recession jitters? Why clients need to hear from advisers now

GFC. COVID-19. 2023… and now 2025? With recession fears once again dominating headlines and markets rattling investor confidence, financial advisers are...

The alternative asset class that can change people’s lives

Healthcare and life sciences is emerging as an economically resilient alternative asset class, given that the industry has huge tailwinds in the form of the...

Helping portfolios weather the storm: the many attributes of ILS

If the holy grail of investing lies in the concept of non-correlated return streams with which to build truly diversified portfolios, insurance-linked...

Getting a grip as gold goes ga-ga

Gold’s spectacular rise has been a feature of the markets over the last couple of years, and judging from how the investment banks are sharpening the pencil...

Europe becomes flavour of the month as US equities hit a roadblock

Investors are right to diversify overseas. What they must remember is, it’s not just a US story focused on the 'Magnificent Seven.'