The Investment Management Analyst Certificate (IMAC) advances investment management analyst knowledge, skill and expertise in a definitive set of competencies necessary for building and/or advising on quality multi-manager portfolios. It is both a structured post-graduate certificate course in its own right, and the Australian-based Registered Education Program for the global Certified Investment Management Analyst® (CIMA®) program.
Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMA) is the peak, international technical portfolio construction certification program designed for investment management analysts - that is, those involved in any aspect of constructing multi-asset, multi-manager portfolios.
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 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.
While the impact of US trade tariffs will be far less than investors fear, broad portfolio diversification is paramount and indexed strategies are no longer appropriate.
While there is a grain of truth in many of the arguments supporting the claim that private credit is set to blow up, most are vastly overblown or, where correct, can easily be managed.
Welcome to the farrelly's Dynamic Asset Allocation New Zealand subscriber only area...
The farrelly's Dynamic Asset Allocation Handbook features editorial exploring investment strategy "hot topics", farrelly's long-term forecasts for asset classes, a detailed review of the long-term forecasts for an individual asset class (rotating across asset classes each quarter) and three asset allocation models to assist with implementation...
Welcome to the farrelly's Dynamic Asset Allocation Australian subscriber only area...
The farrelly's Dynamic Asset Allocation Handbook features editorial exploring investment strategy "hot topics", farrelly's long-term forecasts for asset classes, a detailed review of the long-term forecasts for an individual asset class (rotating across asset classes each quarter) and three asset allocation models to assist with implementation...
Private market assets can complement traditional equity and fixed income allocations, helping investors participate in the upside of favourable equity markets while mitigating drawdowns in difficult ones.
This lecture instructs IMAC candidates on the defining characteristics of an asset class.
This Research Spotlight focuses on the Talaria Global Equity strategy, a value-biased global equities exposure executed through the use of exchange traded options.
This narrative has been doing the rounds for a while and - in terms of unlisted property at least - has been fairly close to the mark. However, going forward, it has become a really unhelpful idea.
If there is one thing those in the finance industry should understand, it is how markets function. The starting point is the Efficient Market Hypothesis - however EMH is amazingly poorly understood.
Established in 2009, Portfolio Construction Forum Markets Summit is THE investment markets scene setter of the year. It will help you better understand the key drivers of and outlook for the markets, and the opportunities and risks ahead on a three- to five-year view, to aid your search for return and to help them build better quality investor portfolios.
Against a heightened Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) macro backdrop, it is crucial that practitioners identify and understand the gaps in markets – including the disconnect between Wall Street and Main Street, equity prices and economic growth, divergence in central bank policies, and valuation discrepancies between private and publicly-traded assets – to reduce the unavoidable dissonance between our own perceptions and market realities and enable us to better understand what lies ahead for economies and investment markets so we can reorient portfolios accordingly. Mind the gap(s)!
The new US administration could upend assumptions about global growth and markets for years to come. Investors need to prepare portfolios now for a new investing era.
Near- and medium-term gaps in current market narratives and perceptions lead to a simple conclusion - it is time for caution.
Extraordinary and interrelated developments are unfolding in politics, geopolitics and deep tech innovation. Trump's disruptive approach has enormous implications for global markets.
By combining AI, alternative data sets, and human expertise, investors can identify new themes, access untapped markets, and capitalise on market dislocations.
As inflation has re-emerged, interest rates have risen and asset prices have levelled off and even declined, a withdrawal of capital from commercial real estate lending markets is creating a new opportunity to be greedy when others are fearful.
For the last decade, technology companies have been rallying. But quality investing is more than just tech. Defensive equity growth opportunities can fill a defensive gap in portfolios.
The heightened VUCA macro environment, coupled with an unprecedented set of industry and government catalysts, is creating a generational investment opportunity for infrastructure.
As the private credit sector grows, it faces increasing media scrutiny, making a manager's approach to disclosure of default rate and causes an increasingly important consideration for investors.
The US (and soon rest of world) hasn't seen this much demand for power since World War 2. While this introduces investment possibilities for many segments, listed infrastructure is disproportionately well-placed to fill this gap.
Investors should pivot exposure to the growing number of high quality, mid-cap companies that have reinvested to develop market-leading products with global opportunities and long runways for growth.
At current valuations, high quality core bonds offer attractive yields relative to cash, as well as the prospect of higher and less volatile returns than equities over the next five years.
Direct lending has become the fastest-growing segment within private credit offering the opportunity for premium yields that are often unavailable in the public credit markets.
As investors chased Mag7, a wide valuation gap opened up. Investors need a fresh growth narrative. TICKing off four markets - China, India, Korea, and Taiwan - is the most efficient starting point and opportunities abound.
The lower coverage of SMID Caps means greater opportunity to exploit market mispricing relative to large caps.
In mid-market Australian private equity, where inefficiencies and hands-on value creation thrive, outsized returns are being captured beyond the public eye.
Understanding the drivers of and outlook for the markets is essential to multi-asset, multi-manager investing (MAMMI). However, MAMMI is full of traps. As the saying goes "It's simple, it's just not easy!".
As we progress through the Trumpification of markets, the political and information prism through which we view the world will help us mind the gap(s) between market perception and investing reality.
Our end of day session revealed delegates' views on which of the high conviction theses they'd heard through the day they intended to investigate further or implement in practice.
Our post-program Implementation Zoominar led by consulting firm, InvestSense, drew together the key takeouts from Markets Summit 2025 and the practical implications for client portfolios, turning the insights from Markets Summit 2025 into actions.
Against a heightened VUCA macro backdrop, it is crucial we reduce the unavoidable dissonance between our own perceptions and market realities, to enable us to better understand what lies ahead for economies and investment markets and reorient portfolios accordingly. Mind the gap(s)! Markets Summit 2025 (Wed 19 Feb) will help you better understand the key drivers of and outlook for the markets and help you build better quality investor portfolios.
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.
Our Markets Summit program kicks off with a video retrospective of the key events of the prior year...
Against a heightened VUCA macro backdrop, it is crucial we reduce the unavoidable dissonance between our own perceptions and market realities, to enable us to better understand what lies ahead for economies and investment markets and reorient portfolios accordingly. Mind the gap(s)! Markets Summit 2025 (Wed 19 Feb) will help you better understand the key drivers of and outlook for the markets and help you build better quality investor portfolios.
Near- and medium-term gaps in current market narratives and perceptions lead to a simple conclusion. It is time for caution. As an "unconstrained" investor with no one to answer to but myself, my experience suggests three courses of action.
With monetary policy easing set to provide an additional tailwind for smaller companies, now is the time for practitioners to consider increasing global small caps exposure in portfolios.
The 2024 US election result could potentially upend assumptions about global growth and markets in the years ahead. The next four years could be Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA) on steroids!