Xi's recent blunt remarks in Beijing suggest that China has now gone much further in sharpening its focus on Taiwan.
We're witnessing a profound and transformation shift in markets and economies, marked by an end to globalisation and a focus on national priorities, intertwined with the drive for AI supremacy. This is not time to be inactive!
The dominance of passive investing and mega-cap concentration has created a widening structural opportunity in small-cap equities - the widest inefficiency in public equity markets and a compelling return outlook.
Powerful cyclical, secular and structural changes are reshaping the outlook for asset classes. This panel debated the outlook for real assets, global absolute return debt, and Australian and international private credit.
This week was a test of how markets process conflicting signals. Markets again showed how quickly they are willing to move past geopolitical risk when the AI capital cycle remains intact.
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.
With Jerome Powell concluding his tenure as Fed chair, his legacy is likely to reflect a striking irony - it will have been secured by the man who sought most aggressively to undermine him.
For investment advisers, empathy without objectivity can become harmful. Expertise, intuition and independent thinking are best built through deep internalised knowledge, not passive reliance on AI.
A persistent supply–demand imbalance, combined with tighter bank capital requirements, is opening the door to more opportunities for private lenders.
Artificial Intelligence is disrupting industries and creating winners, losers, and perceived losers. Long-term value is created by owning resilient businesses rather than chasing momentum.
The market remains willing to fund transformational growth. SpaceX proved that. But SpaceX is not merely an IPO. It is a market structure event.
After decapitating the Iranian regime and bombing Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps positions for 40 days, the Trump administration has left Iran in control of the Strait of Hormuz. So, what happens next?
As the RBA hikes rates to curb inflation due to a lower speed limit, should investors ultimately be expecting lower or higher bond yields?
AI, geopolitical realignment, energy transition, and aging demographics are reshaping the world, creating opportunities for diversification and downside protection versus passive core portfolios overweight the 'old world'.
The valuation disconnect between REITs and broader equities is at levels only seen during the GFC, yet the underlying real estate fundamentals tell a very different story. It's time to ‘buy-the-dip’ in high quality global real estate.
One of the most remarkable features of the current market cycle is that capital is no longer simply chasing growth. Increasingly, growth is chasing capital. The next phase of the cycle may be determined not by the capabilities of artificial intelligence, but by the capacity of financial markets to fund it.
