In a sample using UK stocks, Axioma, the global investment risk advisory firm, points back to some tried and true fundamental beliefs but adds a couple of new ones to assess the likely future behaviour of factors. The firm is
In what a specialist consultant and Bitcoin trading firm, Goldbaum & Partners, sees as the development of an emerging asset class in ‘digital assets’, there may well be a challenge to the characteristics exhibited over the years by gold. It
comment by Greg Bright There’s a reason that the big APRA-regulated super funds didn’t get hauled over the coals by the banking royal commission. They didn’t have anything to hide. The profit-for-member funds were unscathed compared with banks, quasi banks
The world’s largest fund managers last week shone a spotlight on the difficulties the industry faced as two of them reported their second-quarter earnings results to US brokers and investors. Both BlackRock and State Street suffered further revenue declines in
ASX-listed exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products, such as actively managed listed funds, have become a phenomenon in the past few years, after a slow start. The latest rankings show that smaller organisations are competing well against the world’s largest fund
The European alternative assets market is thriving despite a general air of gloom descending on the increasingly fractured continent, according to a new report from global hedge fund research house Preqin. Mark O’Hare, Preqin founder and chief executive, says in
Investors have long worried about ‘bubbles’ and ‘busts’. But there are also stocks which could be termed ‘anti bubble’. In its latest client note, Research Affiliates, the US-based smart-beta specialist, which opened an office in Melbourne last year, the authors,
by Greg Bright The news that Statewide Super exited a three-way merger with Tasplan and WA Super and Tasplan immediately announced talks with MTAA Super, followed by Hostplus disclosing it was talking to Club Super, are just part of the
by Greg Bright Artificial Intelligence is coming to the investment world sooner than you think. Vontobel Asset Management, the big Zurich-based global manager, now has a product in beta-testing mode, where its investment committee decisions are based on AI. In
by David Chaplin External fund managers barely get a look in on the US$37.8 trillion held by large government-owned investors globally, a new report found. According to the ‘Global Public Investor 2019’ study, almost 70 per cent of the institutions
In a sample using UK stocks, Axioma, the global investment risk advisory firm, points back to some tried
In what a specialist consultant and Bitcoin trading firm, Goldbaum & Partners, sees as the development of an
comment by Greg Bright There’s a reason that the big APRA-regulated super funds didn’t get hauled over the
The world’s largest fund managers last week shone a spotlight on the difficulties the industry faced as two
ASX-listed exchange-traded funds and exchange-traded products, such as actively managed listed funds, have become a phenomenon in the
The European alternative assets market is thriving despite a general air of gloom descending on the increasingly fractured
Investors have long worried about ‘bubbles’ and ‘busts’. But there are also stocks which could be termed ‘anti
by Greg Bright The news that Statewide Super exited a three-way merger with Tasplan and WA Super and
by Greg Bright Artificial Intelligence is coming to the investment world sooner than you think. Vontobel Asset Management,
by David Chaplin External fund managers barely get a look in on the US$37.8 trillion held by large
