Questions about the financial implications of AI and space travel have led to a veritable analogy-fest. Is this a replay of the railway boom of the 1870s? A repeat of the electrification boom of the 1890s?
Portfolio Construction Forum's inaugural Private Markets International Short Course in New York could not have been more timely, as private markets moved through a structural inflection during April, May, and June, driven by rising liquidity demands, regulatory scrutiny, and the rapid funding of AI initiatives.
Powerful cyclical, secular and structural changes are reshaping the outlook for asset classes and opportunities abound for those able to reorientate investment portfolios accordingly. This panel debated the outlook for global equities and liquid alternatives.
Practitioners are increasingly in the business of navigating - and helping clients navigate - the complex moral landscape of investing. This paper explores the extent to which culture impacts on our morality.
The next phase of the cycle may not be determined by who spends the most capital. It may be determined by who earns the highest return on that capital. That is a more demanding environment. It is also a healthier one.
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.
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.
For the past two years, investors have focused almost exclusively on scarcity. That scarcity mindset created extraordinary winners. This week the conversation evolved from scarcity to scrutiny.
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 still believes in the AI supercycle. But it is beginning to ask harder questions about price, funding, margins, energy, inflation and return on invested capital.
