Alternatives prove their value to weather volatile markets, says Man Group

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Recent market volatility has reinforced the role of alternative investments in providing investors with a diversification tool to improve the risk and reward characteristics of their portfolios, according to leading... Read more continue reading

Equal weight defies August volatility

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Equity managers and investors fearful of straying too far from their S&P/ASX 200 benchmark have been caught asleep at the wheel by August’s 8% fall and extreme volatility. The flight... Read more continue reading

Play the long game in small caps: IML

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Investors Mutual Limited (IML) has urged investors and their advisers to shift their thinking when it comes to allocating small caps. Rather than just adding growth to a portfolio, as... Read more continue reading

INVAST Australia launches unique thematic investing product

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Invast Australia has announced the launch of its unique thematic investing product, which enables investors to select from a range of professionally constructed thematic portfolios across local and international stocks... Read more continue reading

Corporate profits – Can the US go it alone?

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US corporate profits have been going sideways since 2013, with both domestic receipts (share of profits emanating from US) and foreign receipts (share of profits emanating from the rest of... Read more continue reading

The scourge of overconfidence

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Leaving in its wake sharp equity market retracements globally, efforts to stem falls and to revalue the currency in China, more commodity price decimation, mediocre earnings results and sharply increasing... Read more continue reading

Taking point on property

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Property ownership is wired into the Australian psyche with “the great Australian dream” having been passed from generation to generation. In this paper we look at the behaviour of investors... Read more continue reading

The case for global real estate

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Chris Bedingfield, Principal and Portfolio Manager at Quay Global Investors, explores the benefits of investing in global real estate – from accessing listed asset classes not easily accessible in Australia,... Read more continue reading

Commodities – supply has arrived but where is the demand?

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There has been plenty of focus on the increased supply of Australia’s mining and energy exports following the tremendous investment in this sector over the past decade. The unprecedented investment... Read more continue reading

Crying wolf

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“Greed, for lack of a better word is good. Greed is right, Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through and captures the essence of evolutionary spirit” Gordon Gecko (Wall St) These... Read more continue reading