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May's CIO Monthly examines the US-Iran conflict, geopolitical risk, oil market disruption, Strait of Hormuz uncertainty, global market volatility, equity markets, fixed income, cross-asset correlations, regional divergence, alternative assets, diversification, liquidity, and long-term investor...

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...

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.

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...

There is little doubt that Australia has already begun to feel the impacts of a changing climate.

As we set sail into the second half of 2025, many (though not all) of the geo-political head winds we flagged just a few months ago - across peak trade uncertainty, a heated Middle East and the One Big Beautiful Bill - have somewhat calmed. Equity markets have responded favourably (and bond...