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This has been a bumpy year for the US economy. The big question now is what 2026 will bring. Even if important downside risks remain, one can be cautiously optimistic heading into the new year.

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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.

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

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.

Less than 5% of individual portfolios are allocated to alternative investments. Yet, private markets have outperformed their public counterparts over the long term.

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.

Our diverse panel of portfolio construction practitioners discusses which of the high conviction propositions they heard during Strategies Summit 2025 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.

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.

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.

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

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.