One of AIMA Australia's key goals is to facilitate and develop closer ties to the investment community, both retail and institutional. In order to facilitate this, the AIMA Australia investor advisory group (IAG) was formed two years ago. Read more

A key investment risk affecting a client's retirement portfolio relates to the order in which they receive returns. These investment returns, good or bad, have more impact at some points in a client's superannuation lifecycle than at others. ... Read more

Global markets are certainly showing plenty of fear and uncertainty right now, as the raging bull narrative has turned back to one of an aging and fading bull. One primary reason relates to concerns over inflation, trade wars and the end of monetary ... Read more

Environmental regulation is escalating Read more

Once perceived as misfits for investors, multi-asset class strategies are now used for all sorts of portfolio solutions. Read more

Recent spikes in volatility have focused investors' minds on mitigating the risk of an equity market correction - and for good reason. The economic cycle in developed economies is approaching its nine-year mark, equity valuations appear high and ... Read more

Investors often discount the importance of environmental, social and governance (ESG) analysis in emerging market debt (EMD) investing, based on perceptions that emerging market governance is inherently weak or that data is lacking. In our view, these ... Read more

Part one of this paper, published last week, looked at the risk indicators developed by Four Twenty Seven and used in their modelling to obtain physical climate risk score, which is applied below to the Far East Asian region. Read more

This white paper provides some of the tools that investors need to more accurately monitor and address the physical effects of climate change on investment portfolios. The objective is to satisfy institutional investors' growing desire for more ... Read more

In distressed credit investing, careful legal and capital structure analysis must go hand in hand with fundamental corporate analysis. Read more