The purpose of investing is not simply to accumulate wealth. The real "prize" is financial wellbeing. As Yogi Berra famously observed: "If you don't know where you are going, you'll end up someplace else." Eyes on the prize! Strategies Summit 2026 (Wed 19 Aug) will challenge and refresh your portfolio construction thinking through robust debate of contemporary and emerging strategies to help you build better quality portfolios.

Markets have absorbed an extraordinary amount of bad news without suffering an equally extraordinary decline. That resilience has been supported by strong economic and corporate fundamentals. The problem is that resilience is now widely expected.

CIMA Society Asia Pacific is the community of practice for investment and wealth professionals in the Asia Pacific. We advance knowledge and collaboration among those involved in any aspect of constructing and/or giving advice on multi-asset, multi-manager investment portfolios. We welcome new Associate Members.

CIMA Society Asia Pacific is the community of practice for investment and wealth professionals in the Asia Pacific. We welcome new members - join or renew your membership today.

For much of the AI boom, markets rewarded scale. The debate is shifting from investment to productivity, from infrastructure to monetisation and from technological capability to economic return.

Research Roundtable is a two-hour, moderated investment solution case study taking the form of a hypothetical Investment Committee. The focus of this Research Roundtable is the Royal London Global Equity Select strategy, a benchmark-unaware global equities strategy utilising a business life cycle investment approach to identify materially undervalued companies, with the London-based Lead Portfolio Manager, Francois de Bruin, participating.

Food for thought and CE from Portfolio Construction Forum

Practitioners are increasingly in the business of navigating - and helping clients navigate - the complex moral landscape of investing. This paper explores the extent to which culture impacts on our morality.

The next phase of the cycle may not be determined by who spends the most capital. It may be determined by who earns the highest return on that capital. That is a more demanding environment. It is also a healthier one.

For the past two years, investors have focused almost exclusively on scarcity. That scarcity mindset created extraordinary winners. This week the conversation evolved from scarcity to scrutiny.

The market still believes in the AI supercycle. But it is beginning to ask harder questions about price, funding, margins, energy, inflation and return on invested capital.

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This week was a test of how markets process conflicting signals. Markets again showed how quickly they are willing to move past geopolitical risk when the AI capital cycle remains intact.

Portfolio Construction Forum's inaugural Private Markets International Short Course in New York could not have been more timely, as private markets moved through a structural inflection during April, May, and June, driven by rising liquidity demands, regulatory scrutiny, and the rapid funding of AI initiatives.

The market remains willing to fund transformational growth. SpaceX proved that. But SpaceX is not merely an IPO. It is a market structure event.

The Professional Planner 2026 Licensee Summit (10-11 Jun 2026) has been assessed and accredited by Portfolio Construction Forum for Continuing Education (CE/CPD) hours. Delegates must confirm their attendance in order to receive CE/CPD accreditation.

One of the most remarkable features of the current market cycle is that capital is no longer simply chasing growth. Increasingly, growth is chasing capital. The next phase of the cycle may be determined not by the capabilities of artificial intelligence, but by the capacity of financial markets to fund it.

Food for thought and CE from Portfolio Construction Forum

The Professional Planner Guide to Investment Innovation 2026 has been assessed and accredited by Portfolio Construction Forum for Continuing Education (CE/CPD) hours. Those who read it online on-demand must complete a CE Quiz to receive CE/CPD accreditation.

Markets continue pricing artificial intelligence as a productivity revolution. Increasingly, it is also becoming a capital cycle, influencing how capital is allocated throughout the global economy.