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Amongst high performing funds, consideration of maximum relative drawdown adds value in fund selection

The advent of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is affecting ever-expanding fields of human activity. And the way we invest is no exception. It’s never been more timely for...

Pay attention to track record versus a risk-adjusted benchmark, active share and fees.

Murdoch speaks with Dr David Allen, Plato Investment Managements Head of Long/Short Strategies & PM of the Plato Global Alpha Fund.

Consider realistic potential for outperformance, style-specific persistence in performance, active share and fees.

The Triple J Hottest 100 winner that provides a clue to one of the hottest opportunities in the market today

In a sea of mediocre investment opportunities, those managers that concentrate portfolios in exceptional companies outperform.

This year the script has been flipped on investors. With both bonds and equities registering negative returns in 2022, many investors have been struggling with...

To be successful in the changing asset management environment, fund managers need to continuously reinvent themselves. In the past, they had to deal with...

The global leader with more start–ups and R&D than anywhere else. We are well and truly progressed in the momentum of a prolonged technological revolution.Investing...

Exploiting inefficiencies and finding real alpha in bond markets during an era of low yields is possible says Ying Yi Ann Cheng, Portfolio Management Director at...

In the AFR this weekend I write that a reasonable proposition might be to suggest that in the modern history of humanity, asset prices have never been more distorted...

Active management has successfully delivered alpha from Australian small companies over the long-term. Further, in periods when the dispersion of stock returns within...

Short selling scares people. Many advisors categorise long/short strategies as ‘risky’ and they have support from the likes of Warren Buffett who describes it as...