Financial Services Council has partnered with Portfolio Construction Forum to ensure that FSC's learning activities are accredited for CE/CPD hours and the related CE/CPD certificate is available to FSC's clients 24/7 via the Forum’s complimentary MyCE platform. CE/CPD hours can be used to help you meet the CE/CPD requirements of 16 governing bodies (regulators, associations, and institutes) – including ASIC, APRA, FASEA, FMA, AFA, FPA and CIMA® CE/CPD requirements, to name just a few.

The Investment Management Research Program is the academic research unit of Portfolio Construction Forum, the specialist, independent provider of portfolio construction continuing education, accreditation and certification services in Australia and NZ. The IMR Program aims to advance investment management research by curating courses, workshops and symposia focused on the spectrum of issues involved in designing and building investment portfolios.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

Lonsec has partnered with Portfolio Construction Forum to ensure that Lonsec's learning activities are accredited for CE/CPD hours and the related CE/CPD certificate is available to Lonsec's clients 24/7 via the Forum’s complimentary MyCE platform. CE/CPD hours can be used to help you meet the CE/CPD requirements of 20 governing bodies (regulators, associations, and institutes) – including ASIC, APRA, FASEA, FMA, AFA, FPA and CIMA® CE/CPD requirements, to name just a few.

Conexus Financial has partnered with Portfolio Construction Forum to ensure that Conexus's learning activities are accredited for CE/CPD hours and the related CE/CPD certificate is available to Conexus's clients 24/7 via the Forum’s complimentary MyCE platform. CE/CPD hours can be used to help you meet the CE/CPD requirements of 16 governing bodies (regulators, associations, and institutes) – including ASIC, APRA, FASEA, FMA, AFA, FPA and CIMA® CE/CPD requirements, to name just a few.

The performance of stock markets during the coronavirus pandemic seems to defy logic - until one considers possible explanations based on crowd psychology.

The Coolabah "Update & Second Wave Analysis" Webinar 2020 (06 Jul 2020) 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.

We make automatic assumptions on a daily basis. A critical assumption is that our pre-crisis investment management toolkit will remain relevant in the future.

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The Pinnacle “Top LIC insights” Webinar 2020 (02 Jul 2020) 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.

The endowment effect is the tendency for people who own a good to value it more than people who do not. Its economic impact is consequential. Two recent papers offer important and very useful insights for investment professionals.

Platinum has partnered with Portfolio Construction Forum to ensure that Platinum's learning activities are accredited for CE/CPD hours that can be used to help you meet the CE/CPD requirements of 20 governing bodies (regulators, associations, and institutes) – including ASIC, APRA, FASEA, FMA, AFA, FPA and CIMA® CE/CPD requirements, to name just a few - and that the related CE/CPD certificate is available to you 24/7 via the Forum’s complimentary MyCE platform.

We are at the half way mark for 2020, and every fibre of my being tells me that the next six months will see many more extraordinary events. Covid-19 can be seen as the great accelerant, or amplifier.

The impact of Covid-19 and the resulting massive worldwide government fiscal response to the crisis has sparked new discussion about the risk of an upsurge in inflation - or deflation. This is not a trivial debate.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

The line between "error" and "reasonable human functioning" is remarkably vague. This Research Review focuses on a widely-cited paper that thoroughly unpacks the various concepts under the umbrella of confirmation bias.

The Pinnacle "Are active ETFs about to boom?" Webinar 2020 (17 Jun 2020) 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.

Despite difficult times in recent years, momentum has been the factor that has generated the highest returns over the past 50 years. Three new papers on the topic take us into largely new territory and improve our understanding on how markets operate.

What's new with our continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.