Rich Pickings explores the investment beliefs and philosophies of prominent professional investors. In this episode, I'm in conversation with London-based, absolute return fixed income investor, James McAlevey, BNP Paribas Asset Management...
There is no question that AI is changing the global economy at unprecedented speed, propelling asset markets higher. But will it rescue rich countries from intensifying debt pressures? No one should bet the farm on it.
The future of money and payment systems will be characterised by evolution, not some radical crypto revolution. One way or another, it will remain within the state's purview.
Investors should challenge what value means in today's evolving market and think pragmatically about how value co-exists alongside other accretive factors, thereby uncovering opportunities that challenge the traditional definition.
It's time to move global equities portfolio construction and stock selection with the corporate life cycle - for alpha, balance, and consistency.
Capital and companies are shifting away from public markets, as private markets have demonstrated return outperformance (with less volatility) over a long period of time.
Private debt has grown in popularity as an alternative source of debt financing, with the asset class tripling in size since 2008. This self-paced, two-hour online short course equips you with the expertise to navigate private debt investment confidently across diverse market conditions.
Led by behavioural finance expert, Herman Brodie, the Behavioural Finance - Investment Decision-Making course will help you identify, analyse and evaluate the principal human preferences that influence decision-making in situations of uncertainty, so you can recognise and identify these preferences in others, to improve investment decision-making.
Partly due to post-pandemic inflation but more fundamentally because real interest rates appear to have normalised, the free-lunch logic underlying anti-austerity economics has been exposed for what it always was - a dangerous illusion.
When it comes to what to do about the current daunting range of uncertainties, consider this simple question: How much of your wealth or investable capital would you be willing to wager on the toss of a coin?
Picking back up from the inaugural Portfolio Construction Forum da Vinci Lecture, Michael Stutchbury and Oliver Hartwich discuss the five crises threatening the foundations of the Western order and the practical implications for Australia and NZ.
In today's markets, the challenge isn't ignorance – it's bias. The edge lies in discovering what's happening, but in discerning what truly matters. Now is the time for systematic investing.
Emerging markets account for over half the world's population and a third of global GDP, yet they remain glaringly underrepresented in most investment portfolios. Today's low valuations could be the springboard for a powerful rebound.
While President Donald Trump's attack on the US Federal Reserve Board and on a sitting governor, Lisa Cook, has elicited expressions of high alarm from economists and commentators, investors have responded with one big yawn.
When it comes to tariffs, US President Donald Trump's bark has so far proven worse than his bite. Nearly six months after he announced his ultra-high "reciprocal" tariffs, the global trading system is holding up well.
A complex array of issues is changing the outlook for economies and investment markets. It is time to make a move to better understand these issues so we can better manage risk and uncertainty, and design portfolios capable of improving the financial well-being of individuals.
The explosion of data and advances in AI have permanently changed active investing. The alpha edge lies not in discarding skill, but in scaling it.
In an era defined by rapid economic shifts and evolving banking regulation, the time to make a move is now – asset-based finance is emerging as a compelling frontier for investors.
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