Which beta is better?

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Infrastructure investing is increasingly popular within retirement savings plans and it’s easy to understand why. An allocation to infrastructure can potentially deliver lower volatility and a higher dividend yield than

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Bumper 2019 precipitates more benign year ahead

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The unexpected equity market returns of last year are unlikely to continue over the coming 12 months and, against the backdrop of protracted geopolitical concerns, a more benign, muted environment

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Quantitative investment delivers positive investor outcomes

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The essence of a quantitative investment approach is straight-forward: it is the utilisation of rational economic and fundamental investment insights in a disciplined and consistent fashion. In this article from

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Cold War 2.0 and its implications for global markets

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Bill Priest, CEO, co-CIO and portfolio manager of Epoch Investment Partners (Epoch) recently visited Australia to share Epoch’s world view with financial advisers and in particular, the potential impact of

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Payden & Rygel awarded Rest mandate

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Global fixed income manager, Payden & Rygel, has secured a mandate from Rest, with its Payden Absolute Return Investment (PARI) strategy selected to form part of the superannuation fund’s overall

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GSFM acquires MLC Asset Management’s 49 per cent equity stake in Redpoint Investment Management

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GSFM has completed the acquisition of a 49 per cent equity stake in boutique quantitative equities specialist Redpoint Investment Management (Redpoint).  Redpoint management will continue to control 51 per cent of

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Blitzscale and hope – unicorns, IPOs and the fear of repeating the late 1990s

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The current hype about two-sided digital platforms, blitzscaling and winner-takes-most markets has fuelled a surge in IPO listings. It is perhaps unsurprising that this exuberance, especially when combined with inordinate

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Circumventing ‘flat earth’ market thinking

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GSFM recently hosted fixed income specialists Payden & Rygel, who addressed advisers around the country. The presentation took a different view to the general bond market approach; instead it looked

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Neo-chartalists or neocharlatans? A dive into Modern Monetary Theory

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A small revolution is brewing in the world of macroeconomics. It’s an idea that counts a Democratic socialist presidential candidate and a hedge fund manager among its adherents. The economics

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Markets sending contradictory signals: GSFM

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The investing landscape will remain uncertain for the remainder of 2019, with bond and equity markets seemingly sending contradictory signals, according to GSFM and its fund manager partners Munro Partners,

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