Understanding Alternative Beta

A diversified Alternative Beta program is a mix of simple, well justified strategies, seeking to deliver persistent excess returns with scalable capacity, while exhibiting low correlation to traditional equity and fixed income benchmarks.

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Belinda Frazer
Use your SMSF to teach your kids about finance

Having your children involved in managing their finances and being responsible for the decisions they may make (both legally as well as personally) is a great way to make them more accountable for their saving and investment decisions. And if they can do that in the safety of an SMSF environment where they have you as co-trustees, hopefully the disciplines can also spread to their other financial decisions outside of the SMSF environment.

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Belinda Frazer
The Future of Robotics

The world is set to look drastically different ten years from now. The coming of the second machine age is quickly bringing massive changes along with it. Much of our current workforce will be exposed to various levels of intervention and /or replacement by high level artificial intelligence (AI) systems.

Investors are continuing to develop an interest in robotics. Flows into robotics ETFs and actively managed open-end funds have accelerated significantly over the last 12 months, from an estimated $5 billion to $9 billion over this period, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch.

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Jenni Anderson