Following is a list of Markets articles published on PortfolioConstruction Forum throughout 2007...
The 2007 PortfolioConstruction Conference program again challenged delegates' thinking about how they design and build investor portfolios - and it would have been hard to pick a better time to bring together 500 of Australia's leading portfolio construction professionals... Full Story >
In an industry awash with conferences, the PortfolioConstruction Conference has earned a reputation as THE investment conference of the year for those who design and build investor portfolios... Full Story >
It's not often you get an opportunity to listen to an investment expert of the calibre of The Honourable Dr Philippa Malmgren. A leading consultant on the global political and policy environment and the influence on financial markets and the global economy, she regularly visits with leading policy-makers among the offices of heads of government, the boards of central banks and elected and appointed officials among the G7 countries.... Full Story >
This year, in anticipation of the 2008 presidential election, the state of Russia's political and economic climate has been vehemently debated. It's timely and necessary to examine the big issues that investors and observers might consider in relation to the direction of the Russian economy... Full Story >
It would have been hard to pick a better time to bring together 500 of Australia's leading portfolio construction professionals. Conference came hard on the heels of the 30 June deadline for post-tax super contributions of up to $1 million and then, during conference week, the US subprime meltdown shaved 6% off global equities... Full Story >
Global emerging markets have come a long way since their melt-down in the 1990s. Today we learn more about the changing structural and cyclical dynamics of emerging markets and their prospects in the near and longer-term... Full Story >
PortfolioConstruction Meet the Manager provides exclusive iTV interviews with leading portfolio managers about innovative investment themes and products. Delivered to your desk-top for viewing in your own time, Meet the Manager saves you time as you investigate new investment opportunities... Full Story >
Our panel of investment specialists presents and debates their long-term forecasts for equity markets, listed property and hedge funds... Full Story >
Our visiting fellow, Bob Veres, summarises the most important things he's taken from the two-day PortfolioConstruction Conference 2007 program, and the follow up he'd be doing if he was a Practitioner delegate... Full Story >
India remains a mystery to many Westerners, even as it is poised to become the world's third largest economy within a generation. Anand offers his insiders view on India's economic history, and perspectives on its reemergence as an economic superpower... Full Story >
Two recent articles - one from The Australian and the other published in The Economist - illustrate distinctive approaches to understanding the nature of the Chinese economic developments, as well as the need for a balanced appraisal of the debate... Full Story >
On our recent BRIC Study Tour to India, our 30 delegates met with a wide range of locals and ex-pats, working at the highest levels of India's financial services sector. Our overall impression was of a strong, vibrant, rapidly growing sector, an impression backed up by a recent review of the sector by the Economist Intelligence Unit... Full Story >
The traditional view is that it is impossible to consistently generate alpha through active currency management. We talk with Bruno Crastes, CIO of Credit Agricole, one of the world's largest fixed interest houses about how it does, in fact, consistently do just that... Full Story >
In the next few weeks, the publishing industry will have given us two books that, paired together, blow the doors off of conventional market theory. Both acknowledge that if you want to study and understand the markets, instead of examining the movements of stock prices, you have to shift your attention to the people who are actually making the trades... Full Story >
You learn a vast amount in a week. Here are my key takeouts from Day 1... Full Story >
