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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...

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...

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...

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’!

In recent years, we aimed to position portfolios with the intention of protecting against a stressed market environment.

It’s been a turbulent week across financial markets as investors, corporations, and policymakers were buffeted by US President Donald Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ assault on global trade.