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Brian Langstraat

26 November 2019 • By Brian Langstraat • 1 min read

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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Value chains – Clear, present, permanent prejudice

Since the 1980s, as communication costs decreased and new software and digital platforms emerged, companies could choose from a much wider universe of...

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Cloud headwinds no cause for concern

Global IT spending – on software, devices, IT services and data centre systems – continues to grow at healthy rates. But one of the fastest-growin...

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Beware the one-trick ponies

We have had the equivalent of a bull market in information technology spending, with global spending in IT above trend over the past few years. Ber...

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Is QE really our best option?

The conversation about interest rates is over. “I worry that monetary policy generally has lost its potency,” acting NAB CEO Philip Chronican t...

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Trump’s speech casts trade deal into uncertainty

The proposed “phase one” US-China trade deal is looking shaky following a speech by President Donald Trump at the New York Economic Club. Trade...

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Going active with multi-asset investing

Faced with potential headwinds for traditional equity/bond portfolios, asset owners have been on the hunt for alternative, uncorrelated sources of ret...

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How banks are still being impacted by the GFC

Although it’s been more than a decade, the fallout from the global financial crisis (GFC) is still impacting banks in the way they raise and hold ca...

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