While President Donald Trump's attack on the US Federal Reserve Board and on a sitting governor, Lisa Cook, has elicited expressions of high alarm from economists and commentators, investors have responded with one big yawn.

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These tutorials relate to the IMAC 2025 lectures and are available to CIMA candidates enrolled in the CIMA Certification Asia Pacific Program 2025.

In the long history of US central banking, Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell stands out as a hero. His disciplined performance at this year's Jackson Hole gathering was an extraordinary, Volcker-like act of political courage.

First, we stress test the asset allocation implications of the economic scenarios debated earlier in the morning. Our diverse panel of portfolio construction practitioners then discusses the asset allocation outcomes, which of the high conviction propositions they heard during Strategies Summit 2025 they agreed and disagreed with most – and, which ones it is time to make a move on, to design resilient portfolios in practice.

For much of the past four decades, the key to investing success was to stay long (and get longer!) risk assets. Even in the changed environment of 2020-2024, going with the flow was a good strategy most of the time. But is that still the case? Strategies Summit 2025 (Wed-Thu 20-21 Aug) will challenge and refresh your portfolio construction thinking by debating contemporary and emerging portfolio construction strategies to help you build better quality portfolios.

CIMA Society Asia Pacific is the community of practice for investment and wealth professionals in the Asia Pacific. It is governed according by an elected Board. The day-to-day operation of CIMA Society is managed by the Secretariat, headed by the Executive Officer.

The subject at hand being so difficult, it is no surprise that almost all commentators can find some logical justification for any theory of currencies they may hold.

Established in 2009, Portfolio Construction Forum Markets Summit is THE investment markets scene setter of the year. It will help you better understand the key drivers of and outlook for the markets, and the opportunities and risks ahead on a three- to five-year view, to aid your search for return and to help them build better quality investor portfolios.

Established in 2002, Strategies Summit is THE portfolio construction strategies conference of the year. Presented each August, the program features 50+ carefully selected leading investment thinkers who will challenge and refresh your portfolio construction thinking by debating contemporary and emerging portfolio construction strategies, for you to consider applying in practice to build better quality portfolios.

CIMA Society Asia Pacific is the community of practice for investment and wealth professionals in the Asia Pacific. We welcome new members - join or renew your membership today.

The Investment Management Analyst Certificate (IMAC) advances investment management analyst knowledge, skill and expertise in a definitive set of competencies necessary for building and/or advising on quality multi-manager portfolios. It is both a structured post-graduate certificate course in its own right, and the Australian-based Registered Education Program for the global Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) program.

Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) is the peak, international technical portfolio construction certification program designed for investment management analysts - that is, those involved in any aspect of constructing multi-asset, multi-manager portfolios.

The key to the near-term outlook is not US tariffs or the Iran war but their geopolitical interplay. This year's twin shocks make a global recession look increasingly likely.

The core principles underpinning multi-asset, multi-manager investing (MAMMI) go back thousands of years. This preface introduces why MAMMI expertise is more complex, more difficult to successfully practice and more important than ever.

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Thinking Differently about Markets is a subscription service that enables a deeper and more realistic understanding of economic and financial dynamics, empowering greater clarity and agility in portfolio construction. It will help you create robust portfolios by deepening your understanding of how economies and markets really work.