Forum Fodder

Forum Fodder | Friday 11 December 2020
“Over the past three years, there has been 1.3 trillion in private market transactions. And 30% of those transactions have been in renewable and communication infrastructure assets.” - Jeremy Anagnos at Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Conference 2020
All the best for another week’s continuing education!
Graham

Philosophy | Markets

What Yellen must do
US President-elect Biden’s appointment of Janet Yellen as the next Secretary of the Treasury is good news for the US and the world. No one is better equipped to deal with today’s economic challenges.
Joseph-Stiglitz, Columbia University | Read

Strategies

We need growth!
The fact is that we don’t NEED growth. We need high after-tax returns. High growth at a reasonable price will always be attractive. But so too will no-growth at a high risk-adjusted yield.
Tim Farrelly, farrelly’s Investment Strategy | Read

Markets | Strategies | Investing | As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

More stocks and styles will fail in the new world
Incumbent investment frameworks such as Value, Shorting, Passive and Index Aware strategies are failing. Going forward, successful investors will need to be extremely selective when allocating capital.
Mark Arnold & Jason Orthman, Hyperion Asset Management | 0.50 CE | Read, Watch, Listen

Markets | Strategies | As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

The death of government bonds has been greatly exaggerated
Since the early 1980s, developed market government bond yields have broadly been falling, with investors voicing concerns that the asset class offered little or no value. Continually, they have been proven wrong.
Martyn Simpson, Colchester Global Investors | 0.50 CE | Read, Watch, Listen

Markets | Investing| As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

Stop looking for labels and start buying the real assets
Decarbonisation and data growth will dominate every aspect of our lives for decades to come. If your infrastructure manager isn’t leveraging off these themes then you need to find a new one.
Jeremy Anagnos, CBRE Clarion | 0.50 CE | Read, Watch, Listen

Finology | Invitation to investment advisers

Complimentary self-assessment to benchmark your Client Care & Practice knowledge and skills
FASEA requires that financial advisers continually improve their client care and practice knowledge and skills - doing so makes obvious business sense, as well. Our new Finology Benchmarking Indices (FBI) self assessment tool helps you benchmark your investing biases, beliefs and behaviours versus peers, to further empower your “client care and practice” knowledge and skills. It’s complimentary to our members who give investment advice, while we continue to develop it.
Portfolio Construction Forum | 0.50 CE | Take the FBI self-assessment

Markets

Markets Summit 2021 “Back to the drawing board” | Mark your Diary - Wed 03 Mar 2021
Established in 2009, Markets Summit is THE investment markets scene setter of the year. Presented in Sydney each February, the face-to-face and online learning program features 20+ leading investment thinkers - geopolitical specialists, economists, market/asset class experts, and investment strategists - from around the world, offering their best high conviction ideas on the drivers of and outlook for the markets (on a three- to five-year view) in the context of the theme - and the implications for portfolios.
Mark Your Diary - Wed 03 Mar 2021 Meanwhile “attend” Markets Summit 2020 “Be Alert! High VUCA ahead” on-demand

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Markets

A tale of two economies
As financial markets celebrate the coming vaccine-led boom, the confluence of epidemiological and political aftershocks has pushed us back into a quagmire of heightened economic vulnerability.
Stephen Roach, Yale University | Read

Investing

5 essential components of private equity fees
Private Equity is becoming a more widely available asset class. However, like any asset class, it has its nuances and risks. A key area of complexity is fees. Some seemingly minor differences in fee structure can make a material difference to total fees paid.
Annika Bradley, Lodrino | Read

Markets | Strategies | Investing | As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

Australia’s tech sector has been unfairly maligned
The tech-wreck of the early 2000s was ground zero for the birth of a succession of Australian technology companies that have disrupted markets and established themselves as global leaders.
Dushko Bajic, First Sentier Investors | 0.50 CE | Watch, Listen

Philosophy | Markets | Investing| As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

We are all sustainable investors now
In the past, ESG considerations were seen as a choice or a preference but, going forward, they are increasingly becoming a necessity in the evaluation of investment opportunities in a whole new world!
Michael LaBella, QS Investors | 0.50 CE | Read, Watch, Listen

Finology

Research Review: The impact of investor beliefs
Beliefs interact with investors’ biases and preferences to ultimately influence their behaviour. Two recent papers highlight the impact of individual investors’ beliefs about the future and the impact on portfolio behaviour and composition, as well as market returns.
Rob Hamshar, Portfolio Construction Forum | 1.00 CE | Read

Markets

The Democrats’ four-year reprieve
Regardless of who wins, it won’t stop the tech wreck or the Davos 2021 Great Reset and 30m people in the US will still be unemployed…
Debbie Whiting, Utopia Financial Partners | Have your say!

Markets

The calm before the exchange-rate storm?
There is a fundamental inconsistency over the long run between an ever-rising share of US debt in world markets and an ever-falling share of US output in the global economy.
Kenneth Rogoff, Harvard University | Read

Markets | Joining us for Markets Summit 2021, Wednesday 03 March 2021

Back to the drawing board
To say a lot has changed since I spoke to you back in February at Markets Summit 2020 is an incredible understatement. Between now and Markets Summit in March 2021, I’m going to be watching three things.
Ron Temple, Lazard Asset Management | Read, Watch

Strategies | Finology | As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

It’s time to retire retirement
It turns out that 'retiring’ and withdrawing from productive life actually conflicts with our own natural drivers of well-being. The concept of ‘retirement’ is an obsolescent by-product of the industrial era that needs to be retired.
Michael Kitces, Buckingham Wealth Partners | 0.50 CE | Read, Watch, Listen

Markets | Strategies | Investing | As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

Convertible bonds must play a dedicated role in portfolios
For investors needing more from their fixed income allocation, global convertible bonds offer a whole new world of opportunity.
Arnaud Brillois, Lazard Asset Management | 0.50 CE | Read, Watch, Listen

Philosophy | Investing| As seen at Strategies Conference 2020

Believe it or not, you’ve always been an ESG investor
While it may not be a new approach, ESG investing creates risk-aware portfolios that are more likely to outperform over the long term.
Dom Giuliano, Magellan Asset Management | 0.50 CE | Watch, Listen

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