There is growing public alarm about how generative AI might obliterate industries and professions. What's often overlooked is that the first major victim will undoubtedly be the technology sector itself.
The recent surge in government bond yields raises a critical question - should corporations lock in debt at current interest rates before they rise further?
For the past 30 years, a revolution has been underway in how investment markets and economies should be viewed and understood. This Backgrounder introduces the key elements of this revolution – termed Complexity Economics – and explains the implications for understanding investment market behaviour and constructing portfolios.
In an industry saturated with greenwashing, woke-washing, whitewashing, and other appeals to our ethical sensibilities, moral courage is a critical virtue for upholding high ethical standards and building societal trust.
This Research Spotlight focuses on the Talaria Global Equity strategy, a value-biased global equities exposure executed through the use of exchange traded options.
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.
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.
When economists celebrate the 250th anniversary of the publication of Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations next year, President Trump's mercantilism will constitute an incongruous backdrop.
I have significantly rethought the likely implications of the Trump administration's impact on the world's economies and polities. I am more optimistic.
As we progress through the Trumpification of markets, the political and information prism through which we view the world will help us mind the gap(s) between market perception and investing reality.
Near- and medium-term gaps in current market narratives and perceptions lead to a simple conclusion - it is time for caution.
Private equity is promoted as providing returns several per cent higher than investing in public equity markets. These two papers reveal the true returns that private equity delivers to investors, identifying the real winners (the managers).
With President Trump's tariff war in full swing, attention is turning to the "Mar-a-Lago Accord", a plan to weaken the dollar. Clever as it might be, but it is based on a flawed diagnosis.
Understanding the drivers of and outlook for the markets is essential to multi-asset, multi-manager investing (MAMMI). However, MAMMI is full of traps. As the saying goes "It's simple, it's just not easy!".
As the private credit sector grows, it faces increasing media scrutiny, making a manager's approach to disclosure of default rate and causes an increasingly important consideration for investors.
In mid-market Australian private equity, where inefficiencies and hands-on value creation thrive, outsized returns are being captured beyond the public eye.
Ethical standards and codes serve as guiding principles for professionals - but the application is rarely straightforward. This paper reviews recent literature on moral judgment and the behavioural implications.
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