Studying economics these days, it is quite possible to get a degree without ever having come across the name of a single economist. This is a pity and it is not really appropriate to a social science.

Towers Watson's compendium of insights into global equity investing contains useful insights about issues many portfolio construction practitioners face every day.

An empirical study found that in advanced economies, the greatest factor that has increased the growth of government is the welfare state. Economists are highly sceptical about such transfers.

Stein's law, a rule of thumb for politics, economics and business, is that "If something can't continue, it will stop." Here are four inevitable changes in the investing environment.

Fortunately, New Zealand consistently ranks near the top of international indices measuring economic freedom. But this also means that we might take it too much for granted.

Our Forum Fodder e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. In Fodder this week - SAA vs DAA, passive vs active, quant vs qual - each a major debate of investing

Our Forum Fodder NZ e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. In Fodder NZ this week - SAA vs DAA, passive vs active, quant vs qual - each a major debate of investing

Divorcing your debt benchmark and adopting more unconstrained approach to debt investing and offering degrees of freedom to the portfolio manager is the new "core".

The Academy Autumn Seminar 2014 featured four sessions: 10 golden rules for portfolio construction; Reassessing the global debt spectrum; Currency revisited - to hedge or not to hedge; Volatility investing - the next frontier.

Against a backdrop of currency slides, yield spikes and chronic equity underperformance, we invited our EM experts to defend their asset class against three charges.

Target date funds are becoming the workhorse for DC plans but there are problems with the approach. This paper offers a portfolio construction framework to overcome them.

The active versus passive debate was recently given a boost when Warren Buffet suggested in his annual letter that most investors are better off investing passively.

Our Forum Fodder e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams.

Our Forum Fodder NZ e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. In Fodder NZ this week - 3 powerhouse economic commentators - Nouriel Roubini, Pippa Malmgren and Charles Gave

In recent months, we've highlighted one school of research on funding retirement income, being the sustainable withdrawal rate approach. This paper takes a different approach.

George W. Bush allegedly once said, "the problem with the French is that they don't have a word for entrepreneur." Indeed, most people have no idea what entrepreneurship really means.

A recent Australian study of how clients prefer to be communicated with from their financial advisers sheds some interesting light on the challenge.

The challenge for investors over the past several years is that diversification did not work as expected. The dynamic nature of correlation must be factored into portfolio modeling.

While most financial advisers aspire to work with HNW clients, very few successfully do so with any scale or significance. Most advisers will have a few HNW clients, but all too few of them. Why?

So the US budget deficit is contracting because government consumption is falling? It is really just an accounting illusion. Financial repression is still the order of the day.