Australia Needs to Export Technology, Not Talent: Farquhar Private & Alternative Markets, Risk and Regulation If Australia is to maintain its standard of living, it needs to make a greater effort to build a domestic technology industry, rather than allowing its well-educated professionals to be poached by overseas companies. Scott Farquhar, co-founder and co-CEO of Atlassian, told an audience of venture capital and institutional investors in early March that Australian […] Read More
Too Many Investment Advisers Don’t Get Portfolio Construction Asset Allocation & Strategy, Women in Finance Portfolio construction is a specialised skill and there are too many professionals in the investment industry who manage people’s money without the right knowledge to build portfolios, according to the new chair of the CIMA Society of Australia. “I took the chair role because there are a lot of people who make decisions about investments […] Read More
Mobile Platforms Help Open Up Rural African Markets Emerging Markets, Private & Alternative Markets LGT Impact Ventures sees more companies using mobile applications to create distribution networks in remote African areas, creating new opportunities to services lower and middle income people. Read More
Are We Biased? Bringing Time Series into Behavioural Finance Behavioural Finance, MarketFox Before becoming a professional investor, I was a psychology student at the University of Melbourne. The course took me on an interesting personal journey. In first year, we studied the classic research. Studies such as Pavlov’s conditioning experiments with dogs, Asch’s conformity studies, Milgram’s coerced compliance experiments and Zimbardo’s infamous Stanford prison experiment. By the […] Read More
Knowledge Management: Keeping Track of What We Know Asset Allocation & Strategy Institutional investors sit on treasure troves of knowledge about financial transactions, industry networks and due diligence reports. Ashby Monk says the management of this knowledge should be a top priority. Read More
True Equity Diversification is Hard Asset Allocation & Strategy, Asset Owners, Chief Investment Officers, Equities Diversification is good, but what assets will truly diversify you from equity risk, Michael Block, CIO of the Australian Catholic Superannuation & Retirement Fund, asks. Read More
Theory Behind Crisis Risk Offset Makes Sense: CAIA Asset Allocation & Strategy, Financial Crisis Keith Black, who leads a team that develops the curriculum for CAIA, discusses the merits of the increasingly popular crisis risk offset strategy. Read More
Do Members Benefit from Tax-Efficient Portfolios? Risk and Regulation, Women in Finance Do members really benefit from tax-efficient portfolios, or are they simply deferred without any real gain? Read More
Interested in Blockchain? There is an ETF for that MarketFox MarketFox columnist Daniel Grioli is back from the United States and tells of his adventures in ETF land. Read More