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.

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.

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

Welcome to the farrelly's Dynamic Asset Allocation New Zealand subscriber only area...

Welcome to the farrelly's Dynamic Asset Allocation Australian subscriber only area...

Welcome to the Thinking Differently About Markets subscriber only area...

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.

I have significantly rethought the likely implications of the Trump administration's impact on the world's economies and polities. I am more optimistic.

The core principles underpinning multi-asset, multi-manager investing (MAMMI) go back thousands of years. This preface describes the evolution of the discipline in Australia and New Zealand during the past 50 years (1975-2025).

brillient! is the leading independent boutique investment publishing house in Australia. brillient! specialises in collaborating with selected research analysts, investment managers, authors and academics to publish innovative, independent professional development services for Australian and New Zealand portfolio construction practitioners.

Ethical standards and codes serve as guiding principles for professionals - but the application is rarely straightforward. This paper reviews recent literature on moral judgment and the behavioural implications.

Even if Mickey Mouse were president, the US would still be on the way to 4% growth, because US private-sector innovation promises to offset bad policies and erratic policymaking.

The supply-chain disruptions during the Covid pandemic look almost quaint compared to the fundamental reordering of global trade now underway and which threatens a prolonged period of stagflation.

In the space of little more than two months, Trump has turned the world inside out. The Trump shock is the functional equivalent of a full-blown crisis. Concerns over the global economic forecast seem almost trivial.

What's new with our live and on-demand continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

What's new with our live and on-demand continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

What's new with our live and on-demand continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

What's new with our live and on-demand continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

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.