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Investors face headwinds in integrating physical climate risks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2025
... horizons of physical risks and investment cycles. While physical risks typically manifest over long periods, traditional valuation techniques generally price in near-term policy risk while underestimating the cost of long-term physical risk, one fund ...

Aussies feeling FOMO on private markets: Survey

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2025
... Australia and New Zealand Louise Watson said. "Education becomes essential as some knowledge gaps remain. Liquidity, the valuation lag, and the return cycle are the top three differences between public and private markets that investors must know." While ...

Alternatives high on the radar to escape Trump's tariffs: Fidante

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2025
Financial advisers are increasingly searching for alternative sources to capture alpha amid ongoing market volatility. Surveying 174 financial advisers, Findante found that four in 10 advisers are now bearish on both US equities and Australian equities ...

Stakeholders ask ASIC for tougher private markets regulation

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2025
... wholesale and retail private markets, aiming to better understand current disclosure, distribution, conflicts of interest, valuation, conduct practices and use of ratings. "This will be supplemented by insights from industry experts to inform the actions ...

Allan Gray exposes 'hateful eight' bubble threat

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2025
... leave you exposed..." Mawhinney said. Allan Gray believes investors in the local share market can't afford to ignore valuation risk, while those looking globally will need to push beyond their comfort zone if they want to achieve outperformance. "The ...

GAM nabs Janus Henderson equities team

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2025
... stocks using what he calls their "All-in" framework. This approach combines expected earnings growth, cash return and valuation change to assess whether a company's return potential exceeds that of the broader market. The appointments come as GAM ...

Alternatives spark 'real' opportunities for HNW advisers

MATTHEW WAI  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2025
... infrastructure, water rights, venture capital and hedge funds. Orrock added that while private markets have faced scrutiny and valuation resets in recent months, HNW investors continue to see alternatives as a "strategic component." "Platforms play a ...

Super funds covet more global equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2025
Superannuation funds substantially upped holdings in global equities but scaled back on cash, as well as local fixed income and equities in the second half of 2024, new analysis from J.P. Morgan shows. The latest Super Fund Manager Radar note shows ...

Benchmark-clinging passive investors risk meagre returns: Perpetual

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAY 2025
... Markets Estimator, which projects 10-year expected returns across various assets, indicates that due to the "extreme valuation" of US equities and their dominant 70% share of the MSCI World Index, investors in conventional global market cap indices shouldn't ...

US financial market dominance can't last indefinitely: MSCI

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2025
The US stock market has returned nearly twice as much as international markets since the Global Financial Crisis, which subsequently resulted in its share of global equity market capitalisation approaching almost 70% by the end of last year. History ...