Insights

A cornerstone of our investment process is company management meetings and site visits. These meetings serve several purposes, including providing an insight into management—how they think and run their business—and whether management priorities align with ours as investors. Our Company Quality Grading process involves explicitly ranking company management, so first-hand contact is vital.

There are signs that Australia’s future as the ‘lucky country’ is not as bright as many believe, according to a recent paper by Quay Global Investors.

Greg Goodsell, Global Equity Strategist at 4D Infrastructure, examines the central tenets of this quote and how they suggest we are truly living in the Asian century.

Since 2012, one of Australia’s biggest economic threats has been the collapse in mining investment.

Bennelong Funds Management has appointed David Whitby to the newly-created position of director wholesale sales, NSW.

It has been an interesting month in the world of central banking. Talks of removing monetary stimulus in Europe and further increases in interest rates in the US continue to affect markets.  Even in Australia, recent RBA board discussions regarding the ‘neutral cash rate’ have pundits predicting medium term increases in the official cash rates.

Alpha Fund Managers has awarded a mandate to global listed real estate manager Quay Global Investors (Quay), a boutique fund manager partner of Bennelong Funds Management.

In the board game Monopoly, research has shown that on average, the orange squares are among the best investment propositions on the board. 

Bennelong Funds Management (Bennelong) has promoted its Head of Finance and Operations, Hamish Wood, to Chief Strategy Officer. He will report to Chief Executive Officer Craig Bingham.