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Matt Gaden
HEAD OF AUSTRALIA
JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED
JANUS HENDERSON INVESTORS (AUSTRALIA) LIMITED
Helping investors traverse financial markets and build their wealth during the peaks and troughs is Janus Henderson Investors head of Australia Matt Gaden's game plan. He tells Karren Vergara why in this long game of investing, active management wins.
Once we stop deluding ourselves that share price increases (ie windfall 'paper' profits) are investment returns, we might start to get somewhere in Australia's having a decent retirement incomes policy. The 2008-09 GFC - from which share-prices have yet to fully recover - surely demonstrated this fact.
Dividend receipts, interest earnings, rental incomes and REALISED capital gains are the only real investment returns.
Share-price changes are merely 'on paper' and delusional and, at best, a speculative approach to retirement income planning.
Time we woke up, Australia!