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An alternatives lens: What to do with a problem like liquidity

The world of alternative investments is at a crossroads. As markets defy expectations and liquidity concerns take centre stage, investors find themselves...

Alternative allocations: The insiders community analyses the trade-offs in 2025

Bringing together our insiders community to share perspectives, debate strategies, and refine their approach to portfolio construction is always an...

Rethinking diversification: Foreign exchange as portfolio protection

For decades, advisers have relied on bonds as the go-to counterweight in a balanced portfolio. But as the correlation between bonds and equities turned...

Private credit’s power play: why direct lending is reshaping markets

Private credit investing has seen exponential growth in recent years, fueled by structural shifts in financial markets and a growing demand for flexible,...

Constraints and patience the key to accessing alternative real estate

The real estate sector has long been a cornerstone of wealth generation in Australia, offering stable, income-generating assets that hold intrinsic value due...

Alignment a welcome sight in private equity investing

Investors always have to trust the fund managers to which they entrust their capital; but even better than trust is alignment.

The great debate: to alt, or not to alt?

As the investment landscape evolves, the role of alternative investments remains a topic of debate. Some argue that traditional asset classes – shares and...

Local PE market facing $25 billion value-at-risk reckoning

Australian investors have poured money into private equity (PE) investments in recent years, but asset valuations are prone to the same combination of multiple...

New Calvary John James Hospital exemplifies Barwon’s healthcare expertise

Often you will speak to a fund manager that will talk about its specialist approach, the market niche that it understands well and can leverage, and how the...

Mutual funds double in nine years, bond funds in driver’s seat

Managed funds inflows surged five-fold in Australia in 2024, but exchange-traded funds (ETFs) left them in the dust, as investors continued to prefer the...

ETFs soar on face value and market performance, despite elevated risks

Whether there's an ETF bubble brewing or not is moot, and the debate only obfuscates the real risks. When markets do recalibrate, how will a new generation of...

Navigating the AT1 hybrids transition: Yarra Capital Management

Pushing bank AT1s into extinction well before APRA’s 2032 cut-off is of natural concern to many fixed income investors. Roy Keenan, Yarra Capital's co-head...

Super funds push 'vulnerable' bank stocks into stratosphere, elevating risk levels

The super funds' collective willingness to pay inflated prices for bank shares is starting to make them look like outliers. With about 30 per cent collective...

Coller Capital scores Lonsec green light for secondaries fund

The group says tackling liquidity and accessibility barriers are key to the success of its private equity secondaries fund. Researcher Lonsec agrees, recently...