New fund aims to maintain exposure to growth assets while limiting downside risk

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Grant Samuel Funds Management (GSFM) has launched a new fund combining the expertise of Epoch Investment Partners’ shareholder yield strategy and Triple3 Partners’ volatility management strategy. Called the Grant Samuel

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How big a sign do you need?

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William Priest, CFA – CEO, Co-CIO and Portfolio Manager at Epoch Investment Partners, Inc. (Epoch) provides his insights on why the current market environment may be detrimental for passive investors.

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Triple3 Volatility Advantage Fund wins Lonsec Innovation award 2015

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The Triple3 Volatility Advantage Fund has been named the Lonsec Innovation Award Winner for 2015 at the 13th annual SuperRatings Fund of the Year Awards. The Lonsec Awards highlight and

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Contagion – A perspective

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Recent events in China have sent tremors across global equity markets. Understanding the sources of these tremors and their interplay with our twin themes of secular stagnation and contagion will

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Football and finance: what Manchester United teaches us about the global economy and the business of sport

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Peter Beer, Economist and Vice President at LA-based Payden & Rygel, manager of GSFM’s Payden Global Income Opportunities Fund, has peeked into the financial statements of the Manchester United Football

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Survival strategies for market turbulence

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The fear of losing retirement savings sees many people move their superannuation to cash investments in preparation for this new phase of life. The experience of those who retired in

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Ubernomics: the future is here, it’s just not evenly distributed

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Much has been written about innovation and disruption. This article has been written by Jeffrey Cleveland, principal and chief economist at LA-based Payden & Rygel, manager of GSFM’s Payden Global

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Grant Samuel Funds Management invests in institutional business with senior appointment

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Grant Samuel Funds Management (GSFM) has appointed Ms Vivienne Lee to the newly created role of senior manager – institutional business. Ms Lee will be based in Sydney and will

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Long/short – a strategy for all seasons

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The current investment environment Any discussion about the outlook for the Australian economy and Australian sharemarket needs to start with China. It’s no surprise that China has been a massive

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Investing for income – can global equities deliver? (Part 2)

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In part one of this two-part series, we looked at the factors that underpin a global equity shareholder yield strategy and focused on one of those factors – dividends –

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