Not all investors are suited to a traditional 60/40 portfolio, particularly when in retirement phase. Frank Danieli (MA Financial Group), Darren Beesley (Evidentia Group), and Daniel Stojanovski (Ventura Funds Management) explore the difficulties in constructing retirement portfolios for clients

Grant Feng (Vanguard) shares some of the latest insights from Vanguard in relation to its global economic and market outlook.

John Guadagnuolo (Antares Equities), Melinda White (Longwave Capital), and Martin Crabb (Shaw and Partners) share their thoughts on Australian equities in a sticky inflationary environment.

Illiquid assets continue to gain interest from both investors & advisers. Michael Karagianis (JANA Investment Advisers) & Danny Wong (Alteris Financial Group) discuss their respective approaches to illiquid investments.

Cameron Gleeson (Betashares) and Glen Foster (Atrium Investment Management) discuss why investors should focus on real returns in times of inflation

Lachlan Brumby (Russell Investments) & Jason Petras (Resonant) consider the benefits of alternatives from a risk-return perspective, including strategies for a high interest rate environment.

Frederick Pollock (GCM Grosvenor), Alexander Chambers (Wellington Management), and Kieran Canavan (Centric) believe there’s a lot to like about alternatives, particularly in multi-strategy portfolios.

Can investors protect their portfolios against the dual risks of inflation and recession? Kieran Canavan (Centric Wealth) and Andy Gardner (Fiera Capital) consider suitable strategies.

Dianna Enlund (S&P Global Sustainable1) and Mark Jordan (Nanuk Asset Management) consider the difficulties in constructing portfolios for clients with responsible objectives that sit outside the traditional 60/40 framework

Chad Hitzeman (Global X), Hugh Lam (Betashares), and Michael McCorry (BlackRock Investment Management) consider how thematic and alternative investments can be used to enhance the framework of a traditional portfolio.

Mike Wright (Evidentia/Lonsec), Alex Donald (Ironbark), and Kieran Canavan (Centric) explore the evolving structure of managed accounts as more investors turn to this structure to access illiquid investments and wholesale opportunities.

Richard Rauch (Brandywine Global Investment Management) and Dominic McCormick discuss the outlook for medium-term returns, and what this means for positioning portfolios from a global perspective.

Martin Morris (Centric) explains the need for the advice industry to embrace technology in order to satisfy the digital expectations of clients & provides insights into how to build a digital first culture within an advice business.

Craig Lazzara (S&P DJI), Nathan Lim (Lonsec), Duncan Burns (Vanguard), & Clive Maguchu (State Street Global Advisors) discuss how active and passive strategies can be combined in investment portfolios.

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John Julian (Dexus Infrastructure) and David Blunt (Perpetual Private) explain how infrastructure investments can be viewed as an effective inflation hedge for portfolios, as well as potentially an inflation protection on earnings.

Mark Mazzarella (Dexus) outlines the key characteristics of REITs, which he believes makes this sector an attractive real assets opportunity for investors

Monik Kotecha (Insync Funds Management) and Chad Hitzeman (Global X) discuss the place of Asia and emerging markets in a portfolio of global investments.

Real assets are making a comeback, fuelled by Australia’s surging population growth. Chris Davitt (Dexus) and Jennifer Cowan (JANA Investment Advisers) discuss the outlook for property moving forward

Michael Frearson (Real Asset Management) and Dale Pereira (Pendal) discuss how advisers and portfolio managers should manage the fixed income component of their portfolios  in an environment where inflation is uncertain

Geopolitics are having a considerable impact on investment markets. Diana Mousina (AMP) and Dr Matt Gertken (BCA Research) discuss the geopolitical risks and opportunities for investors.