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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

15 January 2020 • By James Mitchell • 1 min read

Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

Lower returns, risky investments and climate change will dominate headlines over the coming years as money managers navigate a brave new world. I b...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

Impact of blazing bushfires leaves the cost of inaction obvious

The impact of the climate crisis on public policy and investment decisions will be broad-reaching. As the decade begins alongside a raging bushfire cr...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

Short-term thinking is gold

Cash in the form of coins is acknowledged to have first been invented around the 6th or 5th century BC by the Lydians in what is now modern-day Turkey...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

Mining, politics and the climate change stalemate 

Scott Morrison this week suggested that the government will evolve its climate policy to meet its carbon emissions target. But the PM is clearly hedgi...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

What Australian investors can learn from the Japanese economy

With interest rates falling to record lows here in Australia and across the world, it’s no surprise many investors are beginning to ask, is the wor...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

How bank bashing benefits financial criminals

Mistrust in the major financial institutions could make investors vulnerable to even greater scams. During the Christmas break I got stuck into a p...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

Incomplete ESG data in fixed-income investing: Challenges and opportunities for investors

Quantitative studies have illustrated the benefits of embedding ESG factors into an investment process when looking at long-term, risk-adjusted return...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

Uncovering opportunities for yield-hungry investors

With traditional fixed income providing historic low yields, Andrew Lockhart of Metrics Credit Partners explains how to unlock attractive income oppor...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

Trends and predictions for 2020

Anti-money laundering practices have attracted renewed interest in Australia as we are drawing close to the end of a decade. Prompted by a heightened ...

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Other people’s money: A decade on the frontlines of finance

China’s e-commerce heralds a new dawn

Last year was a remarkable year for investors, but the overriding theme to consistently emerge is the driving global force that is China, and with an ...

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