Wealth of Experience Firstlinks and Morningstar

Season 2, Episode 15In this week's Wealth of Experience podcast, we have Peter Warnes on ASX opportunities for 2024, East 72's Andrew Brown on why he likes owners with 'skin in the game', including English soccer giant, Manchester United, and VanEck's Jamie Hannah explains the increasing popularity of smart beta ETFs and funds.

Season 2, Episode 14Richard Rauch, Investment Director at Brandywine Global, gives a fascinating tour of the global economic landscape. He says economic normalisation post Covid is almost done, the inflation scare is over and there's even the possibility of deflation happening in the US in future. Rauch believes that as the economic cycle extends, the odds are increasing that the US, and the world, has a hard economic landing.Duncan Burns, Asia Pacific CIO at Vanguard, says investors are too ...

Season 2, Episode 13After a glorious decade, private assets are being tested by a higher interest rate environment. Commercial property is at the forefront of that, and Steven Bennett, CEO of Direct Property at Charter Hall, joins us to talk through the challenges that he's facing as well as the opportunities going forward.Another area of private assets being stress tested is private equity. Though, Rainer Ender is the Global Head of Private Equity at Schroders, thinks media coverage on this ...

Season 2, Episode 12Special guest Matt Williams, Head of Australian Equities at Airlie Funds Management, explains the investment approach that's resulted in his firm having market-leading returns. And he details recent investments, including in two 'fallen angels', ResMed and Orora.Our other special guest is Joe Cavatoni, Market Strategist at the World Gold Council. Joe describes the key drivers for gold, its future prospects, as well as the rise of digital gold and its potential to transform...

Season 2, Episode 11Special guest John Pearce, Chief Investment Officer at UniSuper, explains why the 60/40 portfolio is far from dead, that governments not central banks are to blame for the recent inflationary spiral, why history is a dangerous guide to the future, and how UniSuper has recently invested heavily in the downtrodden US banking sector.Morningstar's Peter Warnes tells us why events today remind him of 2007, a year before the financial crisis hit.And Firstlinks' Managing Editor, ...

Season 2, Episode 10James Gruber looks at how investors are saturated with market commentary: overweight this, underweight that, or ride this long-term theme. The hardest thing is often too resist all of that and do nothing. Yet this may be the best way to build wealth in a simple, systematic way.Firstlinks’ Managing Editor, Graham Hand, also joins us to explain how many people are needlessly paying tax by not starting a super pension. And Morningstar's Peter Warnes is our resident 'uber...