Banks are a defensive fixed income investment. This may sound counterintuitive only a decade removed from the most prolific financial crisis of our lifetime.

Finology Summit is THE behavioural finance ("fin") and investment psychology ("ology") program of the year. The blended live and online learning program features an exceptional Faculty of experts from around the world. Each offers his/her best high conviction ideas - on the relationships between people and money, behavioural economics and behaviour change - and how people's different beliefs, biases and behaviours about investing, impact investment markets and influence portfolio construction philosophy and practices.

Our regular Forum Fodder email alerts Members to what's new with our blended live and online continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

Australian investors have a different perspective on foreign currency to investors elsewhere in the world, and this should be reflected in how local portfolios are built.

Our regular Forum Fodder email alerts Members to what's new with our blended live and online continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

Our regular Forum Fodder email alerts Members to what's new with our blended live and online continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

Investors are entitled to believe that the industry has standards so that they can compare like with like - but obviously that's not the case.

Our regular Forum Fodder email alerts Members to what's new with our blended live and online continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

An inflation target of a few percentage points may seem to promote stability - but we need to consider that it may have the opposite effect on the stability of our judgments.

Our regular Forum Fodder email alerts Members to what's new with our blended live and online continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

Our regular Forum Fodder email alerts Members to what's new with our blended live and online continuing education, accreditation and certification programs.

This week in Forum Fodder: Prof Anat Admati - Are financial crises inevitable?; Prof Martin Feldstein - Falling share prices and the US economy; Michael Kitces - When clients “need” more risk, adjust portfolios or goals?; Matt Williams & Emma Goodsell - Owner-managed co’s are the backbone of a good portfolio; Michael Morell - The world economy is facing a geopolitical inflection point.

This week in Forum Fodder: Stephen Roach - America’s inflation risks; Woody Brock - Storm clouds for 2020; Tim Farrelly - Using Australian Asset Backed Loans in portfolios; Affirmative Investment Management - Impact investing is the way of the future for fixed income; Philipp Hofflin - Valuation mistakes will prove very costly in a post QE world.

This week in Forum Fodder: Prof J Bradford DeLong - Self-fulfilling financial crises; Brett Gillespie - In this tug-of-war market, you need a bet each way; Annika Bradley - 5 essentials: managed account vs managed fund; Prof Ron Bird - Asset management, overconfidence and market discipline; Nikki Thomas - Capturing future earnings upgrades leads to outperformance.

Potential returns on traditional assets are falling and the search is on for different sources of attractive returns. The Australian Asset Backed Loans asset class deserves a place in many portfolios.

This week in Forum Fodder: More top rated presentations from Strategies Conference 2018! Matt Williams & Emma Goodsell - Owner-managed companies are the backbone of a good portfolio; Nikki Thomas - Capturing earnings upgrades leads to outperformance; Philipp Hofflin - Valuation mistakes will prove very costly in a post QE world; Stephen Fitzgerald - Impact investing is the way of the future for fixed income; plus Susan David, David Sanger, Chris Berg and more...

This week in Forum Fodder - The top 10 rated presentations from Strategies Conference 2018!

Strategies Conference 2018 (22/23 August 2018) has been assessed and accredited by Portfolio Construction Forum for Forum CE hours. Delegates must confirm their attendance in order to receive CE acceditation.

This week in Forum Fodder: Professor Joseph Stiglitz - The myth of secular stagnation: Tim Farrelly - Find me some uncorrelated assets!; Woody Brock - Today's flattening yield curve, what does it imply?; Nick Griffin - Future proofed portfolios need growth equities...

This week in Forum Fodder: Nouriel Roubini - The makings of a 2020 financial crisis; Tassos Stassopoulos - Culture not companies dictate investment trends; Graham Rich - the Forum’s submission to FASEA on CPD; Ron Bird - Small portfolios are beautiful; Gopi Karunakaran - Bonds no longer a reliable risk diversifier.