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Detailed fund profiles and manager analysis for Australian financial advisers, including strategy, positioning, and portfolio fit.
Emerging markets: the AI sell-off and the value opportunity
Pzena's Rakesh Bordia says the market has crushed emerging-market IT services stocks on the fear that AI will make them obsolete, and that the sell-off is a...
Australian equity funds just had their second-worst half against the index
Sue Lee's mid-year SPIVA scorecard shows three in four Australian equity funds trailing the ASX 200, the weakest result since 2013, while adviser Andrew...
Emerging markets: why cheap is no longer enough
Orbis' Saurav Das says passive flows have broken the mechanism that repriced cheap emerging market stocks. The new test is not whether a company is cheap, but...
Space as infrastructure? The AI trade advisers keep getting half right
AI infrastructure investment is emerging as the more durable side of the AI trade. Franklin Templeton's Matthew Cioppa argues the real opportunity has shifted...
New Australian feeder fund arrives with 190 companies already in the portfolio
Continental Funds Group has launched an Australian feeder fund giving wholesale investors access to Warburg Pincus, a growth-focused manager with a 190-company...
Active ETFs just got more interesting for Australian investors
The global asset manager expands its local active ETF suite to nine products, with a fixed income play and a global equity strategy now live on the ASX.
Why emerging markets demand a contrarian, selective mindset
Emerging markets remain one of the world's largest opportunity sets. So why are investors still overlooking them today?
The concentration problem hiding inside the EM allocation
Genium Investment Partners' Tim Murphy says the emerging markets benchmark has drifted so far from the broader EM growth story that investors relying on it are...
Emerging markets: beyond the technology trade
Foresight Analytics' Jay Kumar says the EM narrative has narrowed to the point where investors risk confusing technology sector exposure with genuine emerging...
Why deep value could be the surprise winner in 2026
'Deep value' is back in focus and the arithmetic of paying less while expectations are low has rarely looked more compelling.
Specialisation, scarcity and staying power: Inside high-conviction investing
In an industry obsessed with breadth, Cooper Investors’ Endeavour Fund is doubling down on depth and specialisation.