Scott Haslem, CIO of LGT Wealth Management Australia, tells Ausbiz that while the Middle East conflict has created significant uncertainty, he expects both the US and Iran are ultimately incentivised to reach a deal, meaning we may be past “peak hostilities” even if conditions remain volatile in the short term.
Podcasts
AI: The great disruptor
In the latest episode of The Astute Investor, LGT Wealth Management’s Head of Private Markets Martin Randall speaks with Isaac Kim and Michael Romano at tech venture capital firm, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Randall, Kim and Romano discuss the most significant disruption in a generation...
CIO monthly
When coming second makes sense
Secondary investments (secondaries) have moved from niche to mainstream and are now a regular feature in our client conversations. What started as a specialist tool used mainly by large institutions has become a core way of putting capital to work, generating liquidity and reshaping private...
Special reports
US and Iran strike two-week ceasefire deal – peak uncertainty?
Investors must feel like they’ve endured an unusually testing past six weeks. The US-Iran conflict has continued to escalate, while a physical oil supply shock has worsened across the world and financial markets have endured increased levels of volatility.
Leadership events
A shifting investment environment
Up until recently, investors could enjoy strong market returns despite geo-political turmoil, so long as they donned a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, so to speak. But the environment has shifted. Geo-politics has moved from background risk to being a central driver that will likely...
Leadership events
Is this time different?
At our latest Investment Forum, our panellists discussed where investment opportunities lie, given a number of live challenges with the latest Iran developments and impact on oil prices being central to current volatility. While equity markets have experienced some wobbles, movement has by no...
Observation
From crisis to stewardship: how governance protects families and wealth
Founders and multi generational families can use clear rules, structures and conversations to move from crisis management to long term stewardship, helping protect their wealth, relationships and values across generations.
Observation
AI, venture capital and the next wave of value creation
How Lightspeed is investing across the full AI stack and what this evolution could mean for Australian high and ultra high net worth families.
Observation
Intensifying AI disruption
AI’s brutal disruption is reshaping markets, but may be laying the groundwork for more resilient long‑term returns.
LGT Investment Symposiums 2026
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From crisis to stewardship: how governance protects families and wealth
Founders and multi generational families can use clear rules, structures and conversations to move from crisis management to long term stewardship, helping protect their wealth, relationships and values across generations.
Observation
AI, venture capital and the next wave of value creation
How Lightspeed is investing across the full AI stack and what this evolution could mean for Australian high and ultra high net worth families.
Observation
Intensifying AI disruption
AI’s brutal disruption is reshaping markets, but may be laying the groundwork for more resilient long‑term returns.
Observation
Incubating Australia’s AI future
Tom Humphrey, Partner at Blackbird, reveals how Australia’s start‑ups and venture capital ecosystem are incubating the next decade of AI‑driven value.
In the latest episode of The Astute Investor, LGT Wealth Management’s Head of Private Markets Martin Randall speaks with Isaac Kim and Michael Romano at tech venture capital firm, Lightspeed Venture Partners. Randall, Kim and Romano discuss the most significant disruption in a generation...
Podcasts
Building Resilient Portfolios in the Age of AI
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...
Podcasts
Will 2026 be more challenging for markets?
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.
Podcasts
Capital with a cause: investing for systemic change
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...
Secondary investments (secondaries) have moved from niche to mainstream and are now a regular feature in our client conversations. What started as a specialist tool used mainly by large institutions has become a core way of putting capital to work, generating liquidity and reshaping private...
CIO monthly
Australia's shifting outlook…but are we asking the right questions?
As investors, we are being challenged ferociously in the early months of 2026. While a casual glance at market indexes doesn’t scream alarm, below the surface, at a stock, bond, sector and regional level, volatility is rife.
CIO monthly
Navigating noisy geopolitics
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.
CIO monthly
Outlook 2026
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".
Up until recently, investors could enjoy strong market returns despite geo-political turmoil, so long as they donned a pair of noise-cancelling headphones, so to speak. But the environment has shifted. Geo-politics has moved from background risk to being a central driver that will likely...
Leadership events
Is this time different?
At our latest Investment Forum, our panellists discussed where investment opportunities lie, given a number of live challenges with the latest Iran developments and impact on oil prices being central to current volatility. While equity markets have experienced some wobbles, movement has by no...
Leadership events
Charting new territory
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.
Leadership events
Investing in Climate tech: Opportunities are global but the role Australia plays could be transformative
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...
US and Iran strike two-week ceasefire deal – peak uncertainty?
Investors must feel like they’ve endured an unusually testing past six weeks. The US-Iran conflict has continued to escalate, while a physical oil supply shock has worsened across the world and financial markets have endured increased levels of volatility.
Special reports
Interpreting the private credit cacophony
Over the last year, a week has rarely passed without private credit being in the media spotlight. Whilst Australian rhetoric has historically been biased towards real estate lending, select corporate defaults and ASIC’s report on the asset class (and forward looking implications), global...
Special reports
We begin deploying into equities
It’s been another turbulent week across financial markets as investors deal with the ongoing (and in many cases, escalating) conflict in the Middle East precipitated by the 28 February 2026 strikes by the US and Israel across Iran. Throughout this period, we have continued parsing developments...
Special reports
Staying calm under fire as US, Israel strike Iran
This Special Report summarises our analysis and assessment of the macro-economic, market, and investment implications of these developments. We are clearly deep within the fog-of-war, with significant near-term uncertainty around the situation on the ground. Using our constraints-based...
Scott Haslem, CIO of LGT Wealth Management Australia, tells Ausbiz that while the Middle East conflict has created significant uncertainty, he expects both the US and Iran are ultimately incentivised to reach a deal, meaning we may be past “peak hostilities” even if conditions remain volatile...
Media
LGT Wealth Management Australia appoints Kaajal Prasad as new Head of Family Advisory
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.
Media
Watch | A New Global Investment Landscape
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
Media
Wealthy but wary - examining the generational transfer
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.
