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The time is right for an infrastructure boom, but who will win?

November 5, 2020 by The Inside Adviser

Long-short strategies, which involve giving a fund manager the flexibility to profit when share prices rise or fall, were gaining traction before the pandemic. The trend has continued to accelerate...

MDA market review: a watershed year

October 26, 2020 by Ishan Dan

Managed Accounts, or Managed Discretionary Accounts (MDAs), are a relatively new investment solution available to consumers and financial advisers following recent advances in platform technology. MDAs have evolved to a...

Plans for a simpler, cheaper advice system

October 22, 2020 by Greg Bright

The Financial Services Council (FSC) is to now prepare a policy discussion (a 'green paper') for the industry and government, to be delivered in 2021, following the release of a...

Growth managers continue to shine

October 19, 2020 by Ishan Dan

It's been a while since "value investing" made sense: the style has suffered a dreadful stretch of performance since the 2008 financial crisis. The 'Warren Buffett' mantra of buying low...

Hamish Douglass pours oil on troubled waters

October 15, 2020 by Greg Bright

Hamish Douglass, the CIO of Magellan Financial Group, who oversees the largest Australian-owned global funds manager and is the current darling of both the wholesale and retail investor sectors, is...

State of the market – platforms

October 12, 2020 by Ishan Dan

Building a financial advisery practice isn't easy. From regulation to compliance, overheads to staff wages and client reporting to administration, there are so many time-consuming, ad hoc tasks that take...

Thinking ahead – ASX MedTech leaders

October 12, 2020 by James Dunn

Here's the fourth instalment of our series on the fascinating ASX cohort of medical device developers. ImpediMed (IPD, 8.1 cents)Market capitalisation: $83.8 millionThree-year total return: -52.7% a yearAnalysts' consensus target...

Playing Tesla’s battery day via ETFs

September 30, 2020 by James Dunn

One of the great investment success stories of the last 25 years has been the exchange-traded fund (ETF), which got under way in the early 1990s as a vehicle offering...