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Read the summary of LGT's third annual Climate Conference, including key remarks from global leaders and featured speakers on investment opportunities in the energy transition.

We continue to believe that the world is transitioning to sustained multi-polarity. In this Observations piece, we unpack some of the accompanying fundamental macroeconomic changes which we believe will likely occur over the next 5 to 10 years should our thesis take hold.

We continue to focus on ensuring there is diversification across the total portfolio and within asset classes.

A tale of gold, Bitcoin, and the US dollar.

In our latest episode of The Astute Investor, Scott Haslem, Chief Investment Officer at LGT Wealth Management, speaks with Ben Powell, Chief Investment Strategist for APAC at the BlackRock Investment Institute. Together they reflect on key lessons from 2025 and explore the major investment...

In the latest episode of The Astute Investor, LGT Wealth Management CIO Scott Haslem speaks with Stephen Halmarick, Principal and Chief Economist at Economics Unchained and former Chief Economist of the Commonwealth Bank of Australia, about the macro backdrop as we enter 2026.

LGT Wealth Management Head of Sustainable Investment, Amanda MacDonald, speaks with Liz Gillies, CEO of the Menzies Leadership Foundation, to explore how Australian foundations can deploy their entire corpus – not just their grants – to drive systemic social change. Together they discuss why...

In our latest episode of The Astute Investor, Kevin Wan-Lum, sits down with Esther Peiner, Head of Infrastructure at Partners Group. Infrastructure investment is adapting to global trends - growth, sustainability, and digitalisation. In this podcast, Esther discusses how this ‘adaption’ is...

Geo-politics have come in ‘hot’ (again) as 2026 gets underway, and much hotter than we expected as we exited 2025. January alone has seen us navigating no less than five key geo-macro events.

A wave of caution has swept over markets as 2025 draws to a close. And there's little doubt that this year has embodied much of the ‘disruption' as well as the ‘opportunity' we identified in last year's outlook piece, "Navigating disruption, discovering opportunity".

The Australian fixed income market has undergone a renaissance. What was once a narrow, single-sector market focused primarily on government bonds has evolved into a broad, diversified investment universe.

Are markets on the cusp of a pivot? And in exactly which direction? For some time now, equity markets have been grinding higher—and bond yields have been trending lower—underpinning solid investor returns. Indeed, US equities haven’t seen a cumulative pull-back of more than 3% since April this...

At our latest Investment forum, our panellists discussed where investment opportunities lie, given equity markets have continued to rally and bond yields have fallen. They considered the risks to equities, given their current elevated valuations and where value could emerge in the year ahead.

Ahead of the LGT Climate Conference, two featured speakers - Tom Kline of Climate Tech Partners and Tom McQuillen of ReGen Ventures share insights into the kinds of technologies attracting capital, the signals they look for when it comes to investing and how Australia can play a pivotal role in...

Investors are bracing for turbulent waters ahead. Ongoing Geo-political tensions, including trade wars, conflict in Ukraine and Israel, and the accelerating AI arms race, continue to pose risks to global stability.

Investors are bracing for turbulent waters ahead. Ongoing Geo-political tensions, including trade wars, conflict in Ukraine and Israel, and the accelerating AI arms race, continue to pose risks to global stability.

It might read a tad counterintuitive but make no mistake, recent events are arguably the most instructive, and bullish, we have seen for some time. And it has nothing to do with geopolitics (if anything, they continue to make the investing picture murkier), the direction of interest rates...

What President Maduro’s dramatic capture really tells us about oil, great power politics and your portfolio in a fast-evolving multi polar world.

In the early hours of 13 June 2025, Israel launched extensive aerial and covert strikes across Iran, targeting a wide range of nuclear, military, and energy personnel and facilities.

It’s been a remarkable month for financial markets which have experienced historic levels of volatility and a near-unprecedented V-shaped recovery, all in the space of about 21 trading days since ‘Liberation Day’!

LGT Wealth Management Australia has appointed family governance specialist Kaajal Prasad as Head of Family Advisory, strengthening its commitment to helping Australian HNW and UHNW families preserve and pass on their wealth and values across generations.

Matthew Tan, Head of Asset Allocation at LGT Wealth Management, explains why investors must look beyond today’s geopolitical headlines and instead focus on a deeper, structural transformation reshaping the global economy

Mike Chisholm shares 2025 state of wealth insights: $4 trillion in assets, HNW up 10%, UHNW up 19%, private market allocations rising, wealth transfer accelerating, and estate planning remains a major unmet need.

Todd Hoare from LGT Wealth Management expresses confidence about global equities heading into 2026, following an extraordinary three-year run. Hoare points out that while an 80% rolling three-year return is remarkable, history shows it is unusual, though not unprecedented, for markets to...