Opinion

Veteran Australian journalist, publisher and entrepreneur Greg Bright died today aged 70. Among his huge contributions, he was a founder of Conexus Financial, publisher of Top1000funds.com. Amanda White reflects on two decades of collaboration with the respected journalist who gave so much to the industry.

Amanda WhiteAugust 26, 2024

FIS Toronto 2024

Reflections on Fiduciary Investors Symposium, Toronto

David BellJune 14, 2024

Navigating 2024: Expect the unexpected, and shape it

Roger UrwinJanuary 15, 2024

Opinion

HOOPP: A boardroom view of how to approach governance around climate change

Gerry RocchiSeptember 5, 2023

Infrastructure

Thames Water: A lesson in infrastructure valuations

Noel AmencAugust 17, 2023

Featured Story

Fearless girl: Is finance making progress?

Visible positioning on the inclusion of women in financial services is now the norm. But the number of women who are CFA Institute members globally – often seen as a proxy for the industry – is just 19 per cent. So, what else can be done to further improve diversity?

Sarah MaynardJune 1, 2023

Featured Story

SVB collapse reminds us long-term investors, too, can panic – but don’t

"A long-term investor sells when it wants to, not because it has to." This is an especially clear and succinct definition of long-term investing. Long-term investing is about how the institution behaves, not a fixed time period.

Matthew LeathermanMarch 20, 2023

Featured Story

The ultimate trophy asset: When prestige is more important than returns

Forget returns. The Gulf SWFs vying for ownership of European football clubs are after amenity value, soft power influence and winning regional rivalries. The returns only come at the end when they sell these trophy assets… as long as there are enough billionaires in the world to buy them.

Sarah RundellFebruary 21, 2023

Opinion

Opportunities in Chinese healthcare

Sam Radwan, an expert in China's healthcare sector, and co-founder of Enhance International a consultancy that advises Chinese insurers, discusses the driving forces behind the sector.

Sam RadwanJanuary 21, 2020

Opinion

EU must overhaul pensions; fees to blame

It’s well and good for policy makers to insist on saving earlier and for longer, but when all is said and done, pension funds simply too often underperform capital markets, and this is, by and large, due to excessive fees and commissions. The EU needs to take a closer look, argues president of Better Finance, Axel Kleinlein.

Axel KleinleinNovember 18, 2019

Opinion

Clearing the climate obstacles

In the wake of the Climate Action 100+ annual progress report, CEO of the PRI, Fiona Reynolds calls on corporate boards to step up. And the first action item is to either transform the industry associations they belong to that undermine climate action, or resign from them.

Fiona ReynoldsOctober 16, 2019

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