Is Japan investable through a cash flow prism?

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There are so many ways companies, sectors and economies can be viewed: many investors study traditional accounting metrics such as price/earnings (P/E) and price/book value (P/BV) ratios of companies and

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24 Oct 2016

Back to the future – are LICs the new growth story?

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The earliest Listed Investment Companies (LICs), Australian Foundation Investment Company (AFIC) and Argo, were launched in 1928 and 1946 respectively. More recently there’s been a resurgence in this investment class,

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06 Sep 2016

The four letter word that investors avoid

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Investment risk can be defined as the probability that an investment’s actual return will differ from its expected return. While most people tend to link investment risk with the sharemarket, as outlined

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22 Aug 2016

Brexit and its contagion

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Bill Priest, CEO and co-CIO at New York-based Epoch Investment Partners, manager of the Grant Samuel Epoch Global Equity Shareholder Yield Funds, provides an update with two subjects — Epoch’s

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18 Jul 2016

Monetary policy unmasked – our take on negative interest rates

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Jeffrey Cleveland, principal and chief economist at LA-based Payden & Rygel, manager of GSFM’s Payden Global Income Opportunities Fund, writes about negative interest rate policy and whether it’s achieving the

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15 Jun 2016

A fundamental approach to managing volatility

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Ever since the Global Financial Crisis (GFC) of 2007-2009, investors have sought ways to avoid the high levels of market volatility experienced during those years. In this article, GSFM explores

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23 May 2016

Smaller companies, sizable potential

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There are 2,077 ASX-listed smaller companies stocks, known colloquially as small caps; that is, companies outside of the ASX-100 index[1]. Of those, just 200 comprise the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index,

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02 May 2016

The rates war

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The aftermath of the global financial and sovereign debt crises have left economies worldwide struggling to find their footing. After years of government intervention, such as Quantitative Easing (QE) programs,

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14 Mar 2016

Strategies to survive a bear market – Part II

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In Strategies to survive a bear market – Part I we looked at the benefits of long/short equity strategies to ride out market turbulence. In the second part of this series,

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22 Feb 2016

‘Episodic’ market volatility ahead for 2016 – China the wildcard in global market outlook

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The year ahead will be one of ‘episodic’ volatility – rather than wildly veering highs and lows – an environment that will create opportunities for astute investors, according to Simon

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03 Feb 2016