Tag: Escala Partners

Framing the current investment market and positioning for what comes next is a subjective process for asset allocators, with plenty of room for nuances in approach.

Escala Partners, one of Australia’s leading private wealth investment and advisory groups, is strengthening its commitment to alternative investments.

Market volatility is not a new challenge—it’s an enduring feature of the investment landscape. But for seasoned advisers like Scott Carmichael and Ben James of Escala Partners, it’s also a recurring test of discipline. In their view, the antidote to uncertainty is not prediction, but process.

Like many successful advisers, Escala’s Amanda Fong has had a “strange” career path. But the Melbourne-based founding partner at Escala Partners has thrived by mixing the art and science of client care with savvy investment management.

There’s around 15,000 hedge funds in the world – but how many of them are really hedge funds? When you’re looking for non- or less-correlated returns, it might pay to stay away from a long bias.