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Forum Fodder | Friday 17 May 2024

“I am doing my best not to engage in too much scenario analysis regarding the state of current world affairs. If I do, then I end up in the same place. I think conflict is now inevitable. Perhaps not imminent, but inevitable.” - Jonathan Pain, Author & Publisher, The Pain Report (12 May 2024)

All the best for another week’s continuing education!
Graham
P.S. Mark your diary!. Join us for the 23rd annual Portfolio Construction Forum Strategies Summit 2024 (Wednesday & Thursday 21-22 August), at our live studio in Sydney, as part of a group at a live site, or via live stream. Early Bird registration opens soon! Meanwhile, watch the highlights from past programs

Markets

The dilemmas of the dollar
The dollar has strengthened sharply in recent months and a rising crescendo of apocalyptic financial talk threatens to spook markets. Can - and should - anything be done to head off the dollar’s strength?
Barry Eichengreen, University of California | Read

Investing | Philosophy

Bird’s Eye View: Measuring investment performance
We appoint active fund managers because we believe they will add value by outperforming the index, and we try to measure that value add as an indication of the manager’s investment skill. But how good are the measures we use?
Ron Bird, ANU & Portfolio Construction Forum | Read

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

Use Australian Equities to hedge this 1970s-like cycle
Higher than desired inflation is now structurally embedded in the global economy. The boom-bust inflation cycle of the 1970s gives a useful historical parallel, providing investors insight into the coming decade.
William Curtayne, Milford Asset Management | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

The Magnificent 7 is not driving a tech wreck repeat
The technology sector has now eclipsed its all-time high relative to the S&P 500, exceeding its dot.com bubble highs. So this begs the question – is this a bubble and what is the risk of another tech wreck?
Alan Pullen, Magellan Asset Management | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

Not to harp, but senior loans deliver a higher Sharpe!
Market cycles show there is a clear anomaly in the Senior Secured Loans space with record setting yields and compelling risk-adjusted returns.
Gerard Fogarty, Invesco | 0.50 CE | Read, Listen, Watch

Finology | Philosophy

On The Hunt: Ethical behaviour profiling
On the Hunt is a monthly lecture series focused on the human factors in investment portfolio construction, including the ethical implications. It will help you better identify and understand how investing biases, beliefs and behaviours impact portfolio construction practices - and therefore, investment outcomes - to help you build better quality investor portfolios.
Katherine Hunt, Ardentura Consulting | 1.00 CE (Ethics) | Read, Watch

Finology | Philosophy

Behavioural Finance: Investment decision-making short course
Led by behavioural finance expert, Herman Brodie, this online, on-demand course completed at your own pace 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.
Herman Brodie | 8.00 CE | Enrol

Markets

What’s driving the global gold rush?
Gold has returned to the international monetary system. Over 50 years ago, US President Richard Nixon “closed the gold window”. But now, fiat money is being challenged and the price of gold has reached all-time highs.
Harold James, Princeton University | Read

Strategies | Markets | Investing | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

History doesn’t repeat, but it rhymes! Key takeouts
Our diverse panel of experts debated the high conviction propositions they heard during Markets Summit 2024 and the portfolio construction implications.
Vihari Ross, Marisa Broome, Adam Bowe, Dan Farmer, Tim Farrelly | 0.75 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

GEM is offering one of the biggest opportunities in a lifetime
Equity valuations are at attractive levels for most emerging markets but the lack of interest in emerging markets in general has led to extraordinarily attractive valuations.
Joseph Lai, Ox Capital Management | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | Investing | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

Ignore macro forecasts to enhance global equity returns
While investors need to be mindful of the potential risks posed by different stress events, they should largely ignore macro and geopolitical predictions when it comes to selecting companies to invest in.
David Allen, Plato Investment Management | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Finology

Research Review: Reconsidering loss aversion
The idea that individuals are more sensitive to losses than to equivalent gains is critical in investment decision-making. Two recent papers highlight that loss aversion/tolerance is a more nuanced phenomenon than is commonly recognised.
Rob Hamshar, Portfolio Construction Forum | 1.50 CE | Read

Markets

Navigating major transitions in an uncertain economy
Three issues are key to deciphering what 2024-25 will hold for the US economy, which is now the sole major engine of global growth. I will stick my neck out and offer some illustrative probabilities.
Mohamed El-Erian | Read

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

The return of history is reshaping investment markets
Three investment experts offer and debate their high conviction thesis on a long-term, deep rooted structural change impacting markets over a decade or more.
Oliver Hartwich, Chris Rogers, Vikram Mansharamani | 1.00 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

The acute need for housing supports private credit returns
Australia’s residential vacancy rate is at a record low and net overseas migration at a record high. But, the banks can no longer participate in the market like they used to, providing greater opportunity for real estate private credit.
Mark Power, Qualitas | 0.50 CE | Read, Listen, Watch

Markets | As seen at Markets Summit 2024

Bonds matter, no matter hard or soft landing
This economic cycle will mean revert to a traditional business cycle - a cycle that may not exactly repeat but will rhyme with prior inflation cycles. Opportunities exist in global bonds in 2024 and 2025 no matter hard or soft landing outcomes.
Jack McIntyre, Brandywine Global | 0.50 CE | Listen, Watch

Markets | Investing

Research Review: Wider implications of the swing to passive investing
Three articles provide us with insights into the impact that the growth in passive management has had on the performance of active managers; the risks taken by active managers and the general efficiency of markets; and, the behaviour of markets.
Ron Bird | Australian National University & Portfolio Construction Forum | 2.00 CE | Read

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