GLOBAL INVESTMENT INSIGHTS

Video | Felipe Araujo, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director, Generation Life

In this exclusive interview, Felipe discusses the impact of recent tax changes in Australia on how capital allocators and fund managers invest, with a growing emphasis on after-tax return outcomes. He also shares his perspectives on what will ultimately set apart successful organisations and individuals in an increasingly tax-aware investment environment and how they can innovate to prepare for change, as the market evolves over the next decade.

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Video | Robert Salvesen, Managing Director, Research Analyst, Indus Capital Partners

In this exclusive interview, Robert discusses the role for an allocation to Asia as an integral part of a global equity portfolio and the investment case for a pan-Asian approach. He explores the sources of dispersion and alpha in Asian equities, the significance of Asia to the artificial intelligence story, and addresses underappreciated pockets of opportunities in Asia beyond A.I. that investors outside the region may be overlooking.

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Video | Rakesh Bordia, Principal and Portfolio Manager, Pzena Investment Management

In this exclusive interview, Rakesh explains the concept of classic deep value equities investing from a practical perspective. He discusses Pzena’s approach to navigating the challenges and opportunities geopolitical risk presents in Emerging Market equities investing, the impact of concentration in a few select semi-conductor and memory stocks across EM and what he is seeing in the EM opportunity set at the cheapest spectrum of the market, that is unique today, relative to past cycles.

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Video | Jacob Van der Wiel, Managing Director, EQT Group

In this exclusive interview, Jacob discusses what defines a great APAC private equity player and how LPs can differentiate between true local alpha and market beta when selecting managers. He explains EQT’s approach to sourcing and securing proprietary deals across the APAC region. Jacob also shares his perspectives on the mega-trends offering the most compelling risk-adjusted opportunities and the structural themes long-term asset allocators should prioritise over the next decade; Australia’s strategic role in an APAC portfolio; and advice to family offices scaling co-investment capabilities.

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Video | Maroun Younes, Portfolio Manager, Fidelity International

In this exclusive interview, Maroun discusses the forces driving equity market behaviour and shares his views on the sustainability of current market dynamics. He explains where he sees the biggest disconnects today between business fundamentals and market expectations, how he separates genuine tech disruption from market overextrapolation and how he thinks about what constitutes a “moat” across industries, in an AI disrupted world.

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Video | Lars Hemmingsen, Portfolio Manager, Nordea Asset Management

In this exclusive interview, Lars discusses how investors can apply multi-factor enhanced equity as an active solution to a concentrated market environment. He explains why segmentation is important when comparing companies through a factor lens and why factors should be customised, rather than defined uniformly across the whole market. Lars shares how he thinks about factor weights and how they should evolve across segments and through time, and how investors can maintain conviction when factor leadership changes.

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Video | Michael Hanson, Senior Vice President of Research, Fisher Investments

In this exclusive interview, Michael discusses equity market euphoria. He explains what equity market euphoria is, how long periods of euphoria historically last, how to identify it and what to do about it from a portfolio management perspective in the context of today’s equity markets.

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