This session addresses addresses a specialist investment approach looking to profit from one of the mega trends affecting global equity markets – global agribusiness...

In this session, Dr Sethi overviews the development of India from an IT outsourcing destination to its emergence as the world's R&D and design hub – the ultimate "rent-a-brain" supermart...

This session examines the historical importance of including dividend-paying and dividend-growing companies in global portfolios and the impact on overall returns...

This session explores the shift to absolute return focused funds, the merger of long-only hedge funds with 130/30 funds and the acceptance of longer-term, less liquid strategies as a way of delivering alpha...

This session addresses the question of TAA value add from a practical, experiential viewpoint and outlines a TAA approach and process which has delivered superior returns on a consistent basis...

As markets have developed, there are increasing opportunities for global investment in infrastructure, via the listed markets. This session explores the opportunities for investors in global infrastructure in today's market...

There is a global trend towards concentrated portfolios. This session explores whether concentrated portfolios are appropriate for client portfolios...

This session examines the benefits of concentrated portfolio management and the value that an absolute return focus adds to this strategy...

This session examines the key assessments to consider when developing an asset allocation to unlisted property...

This session explores the key characteristics of capital protected products to highlight the place these types of products have in most investors' portfolios....

This session examines the current state of play in the Australian securities market. We look at the prospects for total returns from property securities in the future...

The ability for global and Aussie markets to bounce back following prolonged periods of relatively poor returns is testimony to one of the most enduring, fundamental characteristics of bond returns – that is, bonds are naturally mean reverting assets...

The meltdown of Basis Capital has highlighted the need for much greater clarity of communication from research houses – particularly when it comes to describing product risk. With the benefit of hindsight, it is fun to look back and see what the research houses were saying about the risk of the Basis Capital Yield fund before the event. We see nothing on the two pieces of information that really matter...

Many planners still use long term historical returns to estimate future market returns on the basis that, if the historical period is long enough, everything smoothes out. This is pure bunk. In order to demonstrate this as conclusively as possible, we illustrate the impact of using 20 year historical returns as forecasts for the subsequent decade across six major equity markets over the past 107 years...

In the next few weeks, the publishing industry will have given us two books that, paired together, blow the doors off of conventional market theory. Both acknowledge that if you want to study and understand the markets, instead of examining the movements of stock prices, you have to shift your attention to the people who are actually making the trades...

You learn a vast amount in a week. Here are my key takeouts from Day 1...

Near the end of each decade, a bubble seems to emerge in financial markets...

Audio and Powerpoints from the 2006 PortfolioConstruction Conference Due Diligence Forum sessions...

A large number of high conviction or "concentrated" equity funds have been released in recent years, all promising higher returns than traditional funds by focusing on the strongest stock selection ideas of a manager. This paper examines the evolution of high conviction funds, looking at why they have been developed, their risk/return characteristics and the broader implications for portfolio management...

Short of time? For each Journal issue, we highlight papers we feel you shouldn't miss - this is one. It investigates whether resources is a bubble ready to burst or whether they still represent an attractive investment proposition, and how best to incorporate resources into a portfolio...