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Private equity: How continuation investments are disrupting the buyout market

Schroder's forecasts show that the market for continuation investments, also known as GP-led secondaries, is set to more than quadruple over the coming decade, driven by a combination of buy-side demand and structural supply-side growth drivers.

Ten stockmarket themes for 2025 and beyond

Schroders' QEP investment team considers some of the potential beneficiaries of a change in market leadership should the giant US technology stocks struggle to extend their outperformance.

Schroders Equity Lens: your go-to guide to global equity markets

US equities’ returns have exceeded 20% in five of the past six years, leaving others in their wake, but can this continue? Duncan Lamont looks back and to the future of US stock market performance.

Allocating to private assets: an essential guide

This Schroders guide explains the role private assets can play in portfolios, the key considerations before investing, and the options available to investors.

Global Investor Insights Survey 2024

This year’s Global Investor Insights Survey from Schroders highlights the broad range of factors that are shaping investment decisions today, from political and macroeconomic risks to the continued appeal of global and thematic equities and private markets.

Why Australia has missed out on the “small cap effect”

The "small cap effect" suggests smaller companies offer higher risk-adjusted returns, but in the Australian market, small caps haven't matched these expectations, and investing broadly across the ASX may be better.

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Economy

Ray Dalio on 2025’s real story, Trump, and what’s next

The renowned investor says 2025’s real story wasn’t AI or US stocks but the shift away from American assets and a collapse in the value of money. And he outlines how to best position portfolios for what’s ahead.

Superannuation

No, Division 296 does not tax franking credits twice

Claims that Division 296 double-taxes franking credits misunderstand imputation: franking credits are SMSF income, not company tax, and ensure earnings are taxed once at the correct rate.

Investment strategies

Who will get left holding the banks?

For the first time in decades, the Big 4 banks have real competition in home loans. Macquarie is quickly gain market share, which threatens both the earnings and dividends of the major banks in the years ahead.

Investment strategies

AI economic scenarios: revolutionary growth, or recessionary bubble?

Investor focus is turning increasingly to AI-related risks: is it a bubble about to burst, tipping the US into recession? Or is it the onset of a third industrial revolution? And what would either scenario mean for markets?

Investment strategies

The long-term case for compounders

Cyclical stocks surge in upswings but falter in downturns. Compounders - reliable, scalable, resilient businesses - offer smoother, superior returns over the full investment cycle for patient investors.

Property

AREITs are not as passive as you may think

A-REITs are often viewed as passive rental vehicles, but today’s index tells a different story. Development and funds management now dominate earnings, materially increasing volatility and risk for the sector.

Australia’s quiet dairy boom — and the investment opportunity

Dairy farming offers real asset exposure, steady income and long-term growth, yet remains overlooked by investors seeking diversification beyond traditional asset classes.

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