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Fixed Income Investment Outlook 4Q 2025: Pivoting toward new opportunities

As global economic conditions shift, investors are finding new opportunities in fixed income markets. U.S. investment grade bonds offer less value compared to bonds in Europe and elsewhere; and while high-yield bonds merit consideration, caution is advised.

A New Golden Age: Imagining The Future of Digital Gold

The gold industry faces a momentous transformation due to new technologies like blockchain and cryptocurrency. This report explores how digitalisation could redefine gold's role in financial markets.

Are listed equity valuations stretched? The case for rotation into private credit

As equity markets hit unprecedented valuations despite economic headwinds, the case for rotating into private credit to diversify portfolios has never been clearer.

M&A has come out to play

Mergers and acquisitions activity within the global listed infrastructure asset class has been strong in 2025 and looks set to continue. Transactions have been driven by industry consolidation, private market acquisitions of public market assets and low‑cost funding opportunities for listed companies.

ViewPoint - The selective path

With gold miners demonstrating operating leverage, bond markets anticipating a muddle through, and small companies outperforming, explore the opportunities and risks ahead in global markets.

How Australia Retires 2025

The growing divide between retirement expectations and reality is undermining Australians’ retirement confidence. The good news? Vanguard’s 2025 How Australia Retires report identifies 5 key steps that could more than double your retirement confidence.

Lessons from the Quant Winter

The quant winter was a two‑year period from 2018-20 when quant funds underperformed. This was largely a Developed Markets effect, with Australia also affected. In the last few years we've seen strong quant factor performance which raises the question of whether a quant winter could recur.

Structural shifts in AI, energy and defence shaping tomorrow’s returns

Reporting season is stressful, but for Johnny Russell (Portfolio Manager, Yarra Global Share Fund), it also serves as a reminder of the importance of stepping back to reflect on broader themes shaping the world around us.

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.

The dollar is our currency, but it’s your problem

Similar to Nixon in 1971 and Reagan in 1985, Trump believes America cannot rebalance trade without a dramatically weaker currency. This paper discusses the likley implications for investors.

Five key themes for the second half of the year - Fixed income

Fixed income remains well positioned in the face of a challenging market environment, but global diversification is as critical as it has ever been.

Retire with Purpose Report 2025

UniSuper’s inaugural Retire with Purpose report delves deep into the Australian retirement landscape—where it’s come from, where it is now, and where it’s heading.

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The growing debt burden of retiring Australians

More Australians are retiring with larger mortgages and less super. This paper explores how unlocking housing wealth can help ease the nation’s growing retirement cashflow crunch.

Four best-ever charts for every adviser and investor

In any year since 1875, if you'd invested in the ASX, turned away and come back eight years later, your average return would be 120% with no negative periods. It's just one of the must-have stats that all investors should know.

LICs vs ETFs – which perform best?

With investor sentiment shifting and ETFs surging ahead, we pit Australia’s biggest LICs against their ETF rivals to see which delivers better returns over the short and long term. The results are revealing.

Our experts on Jim Chalmers' super tax backdown

Labor has caved to pressure on key parts of the Division 296 tax, though also added some important nuances. Here are six experts’ views on the changes and what they mean for you.        

Preparing for aged care

Whether for yourself or a family member, it’s never too early to start thinking about aged care. This looks at the best ways to plan ahead, as well as the changes coming to aged care from November 1 this year.

Family trusts: Are they still worth it?

Family trusts remain a core structure for wealth management, but rising ATO scrutiny and complex compliance raise questions about their ongoing value. Are the benefits still worth the administrative burden?

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