The 2007 PortfolioConstruction Conference program again challenged delegates' thinking about how they design and build investor portfolios - and it would have been hard to pick a better time to bring together 500 of Australia's leading portfolio construction professionals...

Elizabeth presents her insights into the changing face of retirement globally along with new research capturing Australian advisers' experience with their Baby Boomer clients...

If you invest even a small proportion of your portfolios in non-Investment Grade fixed income securities, you will from time to time experience a default – it’s an issue of when (and how much), rather than if. This session shows you a simple method to better manage credit risk in your portfolios...

The fact that fund managers are fallible shouldn't come as a surprise – they're human. New and better models of researching invesmtent skill are emerging all the time...

Our panel of investment specialists presents and debates their long-term forecasts for equity markets, listed property and hedge funds...

Our visiting fellow, Bob Veres, summarises the most important things he's taken from the two-day PortfolioConstruction Conference 2007 program, and the follow up he'd be doing if he was a Practitioner delegate...

Andrew identifies ways we should be framing our thinking about longevity and portfolio construction, and some of the possible solutions...

David discusses his ground-breaking research into Australian's mortality, and the common misconceptions that are undermining the integrity of their portfolios...

Each year we kick off Conference with an international keynote speaker overviewing the emerging trends they're seeing in the portfolio construction arena. This year, our keynote hailed from the US, and focused on rends in the asset allocation arena...