If you’ve heard the phrases ‘best of both worlds’, ‘smart indexing’ or ‘intelligent exposure’ in relation to an ETF, it’s highly likely that the ETF uses a smart beta approach to investing.
Private Credit has grown into a major part of Australia's lending market. Building on our previous discussion about manager quality, this article explores what ASIC's surveillance found and the risks investors should weigh.
Within a month or so, what may be the largest listing in stock market history is expected to list on the Nasdaq. Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of AI models, is heading for public markets at a valuation up to US$2 trillion.
Private Credit has grown into a major part of Australia's lending market. Building on our previous discussion about manager quality, this article explores what ASIC's surveillance found and the risks investors should weigh.
Within a month or so, what may be the largest listing in stock market history is expected to list on the Nasdaq. Anthropic, the company behind the Claude family of AI models, is heading for public markets at a valuation up to US$2 trillion.
When the words ‘hedge fund’ run through investors’ minds, cocaine-fuelled images of Leonardo DiCaprio in The Wolf of Wall Street, may accompany them.
Fair dues. In the past, the global hedge fund sector attracted more than its share of larger-than-life alpha males not known for their ethics or compassion. But that was then and this is now. And with global equity markets getting rockier, investors are increasingly looking for reliable absolute return strategies to protect their portfolios from market volatility.
When was the last time you met an investor who wasn’t checking the financial news and their stock prices on a daily, or even hourly, basis? It’s probably been a while. The vast majority of us have become somewhat addicted to being constantly plugged into the financial world.
But few investors are aware of what this constant exposure to financial news and data is doing to their investing.
Private credit is having a 'Goldilocks' moment, with higher-for-longer interest rates driving double-digit returns. Once an overlooked investment class, Australia’s private credit market has exploded in recent years and is on track to reach $200 billion of assets under management, growing at a compound growth rate of 23% p.a.
It’s no exaggeration that asset allocation is the cornerstone of almost all successful investment strategies. In Tony Robbins’ words, ‘Asset allocation, where to park your money and how to divide it up is the single most important skill of a successful investor.’
What began as a tool for young investors and self-managed superannuation funds seeking diversification and exposure to harder-to-access asset classes like international equities has now become a mainstream investment.
As the transition towards a low carbon, more sustainable world accelerates, many investors have assumed that ESG is connected with the impact needed to address the world’s environmental and social challenges for the simple reason they hear the term so often.
But there’s more to it than that. So what is ESG? And what isn’t it?
Unitised funds, which pool investments from multiple investors and invest in a broad portfolio of assets, allow investors to access the in-depth knowledge, research, and ongoing monitoring of professional managers.
As so many investors learn the hard way: markets often take the stairs up and the elevator down. It’s the same with the value of portfolios that were created to fund a certain level of retirement: a few missteps can quickly erode decades of saving and hard work.
Index concentration is increasingly becoming a concern for investors worldwide.
Consider the S&P 500 Index, the most popular benchmark for US stocks. Over the past decade, the top 10 companies' share of the index's market value has surged from 14% to 33%. This means investing in the S&P 500 largely hinges on the performance of these top 10 companies, the majority of which are tech giants.
Daniel Drew once advised, ‘Anyone who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.’
Maybe you weren’t in the market for a cow but you get the picture.
If you’re the owner of one investment property, you’re the esteemed member of a 2.2 million club of wealth builders. Whilst owning one investment property is a great achievement, you may not be as well positioned as you think you are to generate the type of wealth most investors are aiming for in retirement care of their property portfolios.
Global markets have long been fixated on what’s coming next from the world’s central bankers, particularly the Fed. But some investors may be unaware of a central bank strategy would could change the rules of the investing game if the Fed were to use it.