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Failure and frustration for ESG post-YFYS

Your Future, Your Super (YFYS) is the ultimate blunt instrument, and super will be glad to see it tweaked. But perhaps the bigger debate is around the future use of another blunt instrument: exclusion.

Lachlan Maddock | 8th Jun 2022 | More
Pension funds more tolerant of underperformance

In the past, institutional investors have been accused of being too trigger happy when it comes to manager underperformance. But a new study has found they actually find it hard to let go.

Lachlan Maddock | 8th Jun 2022 | More
  • The power of dividends in emerging markets

    The conventional view of emerging markets is that they represent a growth strategy and are prone to short-term fluctuations. A focus on the majority of stocks which pay dividends challenges that view.

    Greg Bright | 2nd Jun 2022 | More
    … and China ahead in the cycle

    China is a little ahead of the US in the current re-pricing of global equities. That, coupled with western geopolitical concerns, has presented a new round of opportunities.

    Greg Bright | 2nd Jun 2022 | More
  • ‘The new, new thing’:  Marks’ autopsy of the bull market

    The last few months have several famed investors convinced that the bull market is dead and buried. But how it came to life in the first place bears examining.

    Lachlan Maddock | 1st Jun 2022 | More
    Extreme weather, persistent inflation: ‘peak fear’ is here

    Wildly anomalous times are giving rise to a new inflationary paradigm, and Lazard’s Ron Temple has climate change, mitigation risk, and equity duration on his mind.

    Lachlan Maddock | 1st Jun 2022 | More
    Why taming the inflation tiger will be harder than the 1970s

    Inflation is making a latter day comeback, and a financial system “sanitized by 15 years of free money” is totally unprepared. It’s time, once again, for tough medicine.

    Lachlan Maddock | 27th May 2022 | More
    Bragg offers a super manifesto (from opposition)

    One of the Coalition’s few surviving “super soldiers”, Andrew Bragg has called on his party to go further down the route of “flexibilising” super – if not abolishing it completely.

    Lachlan Maddock | 27th May 2022 | More
    Benchmark performance: the real passive winners

    Passive funds have built momentum on the win-win premise of low-cost market benchmarked products but a new study confirms the undoubted winners of the seemingly unstoppable trend: indexers.

    David Chaplin | 25th May 2022 | More
  • ‘We’re so fragile’: more gloom from permabears

    Jeremy Grantham’s “wild rumpus” appears to have well and truly begun. But it might only be the beginning of a gloomy period for markets.

    Lachlan Maddock | 25th May 2022 | More
    Turn and face the change: A better future for super?

    The last nine years of government have been characterised by a deep-seated suspicion of the country’s largest investors. But with Labor back in power, the super wars are almost certainly over.

    Lachlan Maddock | 25th May 2022 | More
    Restoring active pride, JANA debunks outperformance prejudice

    Instead of blindly following active share and concentrated portfolio trends to bolster pride in the face of an overwhelming shift to passive strategies, active managers need to develop a much deeper understanding of what drives their performance, according to JANA.

    David Chaplin | 20th May 2022 | More
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