Forum Fodder | Friday 17 January 2020
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. - Martin Luther King Jr (1929-1968)
All the best for another week's continuing education! - Graham

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Markets
20 global developments to watch over the next five years
I believe time allows signals to surface amidst the ubiquitous noise. In the spirit of the hit Fleetwood Mac song "Don't Stop" that urges a future focus, I offer this year's set of five-year-forward global predictions.
Vikram Mansharamani, Harvard University | More

Markets
Central banks face a year of mounting challenges
Central banks have proved willing and able to keep stock and bond prices elevated. For long-term economic well-being and financial stability, a policy response is needed that extends well beyond their traditional remit.
Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz | More

Philosophy | Strategies | As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
A 60/40 "balanced" split will fail superannuants of the 2020s
Somehow the optimal growth/defensive asset split from the 1980s is still considered "balanced" today - never mind that for the first time since the 1930s, the cost of capital is stubbornly static at a negative real return.
Robert Prugue, Callidum Investment Research | 0.25 CE | More

Markets | Strategies |As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
Global SMID Caps - 2020 alpha is hiding in plain sight
One of the best performing equity sub-asset classes over 20 years is seemingly being ignored. Investors should seriously consider an allocation to Global SMID equities in their portfolios.
Ned Bell, Bell Asset Management | 0.25 CE | More

Strategies | Investing | As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
Investing in earnings leadership adds foresight to a portfolio
We can never know for certain how the macro backdrop will change or which investment style will dominate. But focusing on uncovering fundamental earnings leadership tunes out market noise, and enhances returns.
Jonas Palmqvist, Alphinity Investment Management | 0.25 CE | More

UPCOMING FACE-TO-FACE CE...

Markets
Markets Summit 2020 - Be alert! High VUCA ahead!
Tue 18 Feb 2020 | 7.5 to 11.5 CE hrs
The current high VUCA - volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity - market environment carries many risks, of course. But with those risks come opportunities, too.
Markets Summit is THE investment markets scene setter of the year. Featuring a Faculty of 20+ leading investment thinkers from around the world, it facilitates debate on the key drivers of and outlook for the markets (on a three- to five-year view) – with particular emphasis on being alert to high VUCA risks and opportunities ahead - to aid your search for return, and to help you build better quality investor portfolios.
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Finology
Finology Summit 2020 - Investing beliefs, biases & behaviours
Wed-Thu 19-20 February 2020, Sydney | 11.5 to 23 CE hrs
Finology Summit is THE behavioural finance ("fin") and investment psychology ("ology") program of the year.
Featuring an exceptional Faculty, it will help you better identify and understand how our own and other people's different investment biases, beliefs and behaviours around investing, impact on investment markets – and influence portfolio construction philosophy and practices – to help you build better quality investor portfolios.
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Markets
The global economy's luck may run out
Calendar 2019 is ending on a relatively positive note, especially compared to the same time in 2018. Policymakers have a chance to "fix the roof while the sun is shining".
Mohamed El-Erian, Allianz | More

Philosophy | Markets | As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
Capitalism is about more than making money
If we want a vibrant capitalist future in the 21st century, we need to support ethical legal frameworks for capitalism and practice Conscious Capitalism.
Magatte Wade, Skin is Skin | 0.50 CE | More

Strategies | Finology | As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
Retirement planning must be active to get past the 2020s
Alpha still matters and an active approach can enhance portfolio returns, creating extra saving to be spent in retirement.
Thomas Poullaouec, T. Rowe Price | 0.50 CE | More

Markets | Strategies |As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
Value investing will triumph over growth in the 2020s
The decade since the GFC has been a challenging period for value style equity investing. Not surprisingly, investors are questioning the value of value investing.
Expert Panel | 1.00 CE | More

Markets | Strategies | As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
There is a bullish case for the Australian economy for 2020
Many investors are reconsidering a strong traditional overweight exposure to Australian equities. But structural forces driving domestic growth continue to support an overweight allocation to Australian equities into the 2020s.
Tim Carleton, Auscap Asset Management | 0.25 CE | More

Markets
Government debt is not a free lunch
With interest rates on government debt at multi-decade lows, a number of leading economists have argued that almost every advanced economy can allow debt to drift up toward Japanese levels. This ignores what can go wrong.
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University| More

Philosophy | Strategies | As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
Values need to move from peripheral vision to the focal point
Portfolio managers and investment advisers still too often follow their own values, rather than their clients’, when making investment decisions. In the 2020s, values will move from the periphery to the focal point for successful investments.
Tassos Stassopoulos, Trinetra Investment Management | 0.50 CE | More

Markets | Strategies |As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
You are a factor investor
Whether they realise it or not, investors use factors every time they make an asset allocation decision. Combining multiple factors can help investors increase the chances for investment success.
Antonio Picca, Vanguard | 0.50 CE | More

Strategies | Finology | As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
Australian retirees deserve better portfolios
The conversation with retirees needs to move away from projections based on averages and volatility risk measures, towards a probability-based assessment of running out of money.
Jacqui Lennon, Allianz Retire+ | 0.50 CE | More

Markets | Strategies| As seen at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2019
A great business is an intangible business
The rise of intangible assets has created a new level of economic potential for successful businesses. For both growth and value investors, the nature of fundamental analysis must evolve to match an intangible world.
James Kim, Intermede Investment Partners | 0.50 CE | More

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