Are equities at the end of a five-year cyclical bounce or the start of a 15-year structural breakout? History suggests two contradictory answers.

Our Forum Fodder e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. This week's Fodder has a finology theme with Prof Jack Gray, Michael Kitces and Angela Ashton

This paper is a great introduction to why behavioural finance is quickly becoming recognised as a field that can add real value to the wealth management industry.

As investment professionals, we live investing every day. We spend excessive time reporting and not enough 'rapporting.'

Our Forum Fodder e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. Pressed for time because of the school holidays? This week's Fodder is short and sweet!

The GFC was the first crisis where good risk profiling tools were in place for a wide range of investors. Two papers look at whether risk tolerances altered materially through it.

Do geopolitical events involving potential or actual military conflict really matter in the constructing of investment portfolios?

Are we at the start of a long-term bond bear market? Here are three factors that I expect to keep bond yields lower for longer, and five important implications for investors.

Symposium NZ 2014 facilitated debate on the three pillars of portfolio construction – markets, strategies and investing - to help delegates build better quality portfolios. This CPD Quiz is for delegates to complete, to receive Structured CPD Hours.

Our Forum Fodder e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. This week's Fodder is full of the latest food for thought from some of our most popular contributors

This paper examines the oft-considered subject of hedge fund returns, finding far greater dispersion than for traditional fund managers.

Our Forum Fodder e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. This week's Fodder has a very practical tone with Tim Farrelly, Michael Kitces & Charles Gave

The staple of retirement planning - save a percentage of income - makes it surprisingly difficult to ever reach retirement. The alternative is much easier and more successful.

Everyone knows bond rates are going up - so why would you buy fixed interest? Actually, there are three really good reasons.

PortfolioConstruction Forum Academy Winter Seminar 2014 featured four sessions: Risk, return & relating; Statistics, lies, and investment performance analysis; How safe are safe withdrawal rates in retirement?; and, Communicating and learning with and from clients.

What we are witnessing in Iraq is a war within Islam. Will it mutate into a broader regional war thereby threatening oil supplies?

Our Forum Fodder NZ e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. This week - Woody Brock, Dominic McCormick, Anatole Kaletsky & Ken Rogoff

Our Forum Fodder e-newsletter alerts Members to what's new on PortfolioConstruction.com.au and live progams. This week - Woody Brock, Dominic McCormick, Anatole Kaletsky & Ken Rogoff

Here are some brief thoughts on four issues that matter a lot, in our view. Two have been poorly discussed in the financial press, and the other two have been ignored completely.

Investing differently gives no certainty of great results (increasing the odds of being wrong as well as right). But it is a necessary but not sufficient ingredient for great performance.