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Damian Cottier

09 December 2019 • By Damian Cottier • 1 min read

ESG investing and investor engagement

As the Illinois State Treasurer, Michael W. Frerichs, said: “The investment decisions we make today will have a profound, lasting impact on our econ...

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Sustainable listed infrastructure – 2020 outlook

Looking forward into 2020, we expect the infrastructure asset class will continue to perform well, owing to its high barriers to entry, strong pricing...

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Are you regulator ready?

ASIC recently shared its strategic priorities for next year – and at the top are high-deterrence enforcement actions. ASIC has already announced...

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Safeguarding investor outcomes

Financial industries across the world thrive on an incentives-driven model, sometimes to the detriment of investors.  What are other countries doing ...

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The role of bonds in a negative rate world

With the recent dip in global yields, some old questions are resurfacing. Do low yields preclude bonds from hedging risk effectively? As bond yields m...

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Shareholder vs stakeholder capitalism – do we really have to choose?

In a well-publicised media release on 19 August, 181 chief executives representing the influential Business Roundtable (BR) signed a “Statement on t...

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Gold – The resilient asset in your portfolio

It was billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer who said, “If you want an alternative currency, check out gold. It has stood the test of thousands...

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The rise of index investing still spooks some investors - it shouldn’t

Index investing’s sharp rise in popularity over the past decade or so scares some people. And not in a fun, haunted-house kind of way. They see a...

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The tech rally destined to unfold

On 30 September, six stocks, what we call the FANMAGs – the FANG stocks plus Apple and Microsoft – had a market capitalisation of approximately U...

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Four ways to revive the value investing style in Australia

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, the value investing style in Australia has underperformed to the extent that it has come to be regarded as “...

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