Leading brands are often global in reach, dominating market share and driving profitability. As local markets become increasingly competitive, national brands too are seeking markets beyond their boundaries.

Cross-border selling, in simple terms, is the buying and selling of goods and services intern...

Healthcare is one of the important industry fields all around the world, playing a pivotal role in nurturing an individual and in turn the world at large. Under this industry, the highly innovative Medical Device Market holds a key position, as the state-of-the-art technologies tremendously improve ...

The AUD is looking to escape the grasps of a bearish trend that we have seen throughout this year: with the assistance of the weakening Greenback, and also what looks to be seen as a positive statement from RBA yesterday morning. 

The Australian Dollar had fallen more than 9% against the U....

What is AI? Is it just the data or is it beyond just the use of data? Is it just smart contracts or just smart automated technology?

Oxford defines the word intelligence as ‘the ability to acquire and apply knowledge and skills’, and the word artificial is defined as ‘being made o...

The Global Family Office Report (by UBS/ Campden Research) series remains the most extensive study of its kind for beneficial owners, family office professionals and service providers, and is well worth a review. The Executive Summary includes the following conclusions:

1. PERFORMANCE - A r...

Key Insights:

• UN PRI and UN SDGs provide strong encouragement and a defined framework for investors to assess impacts of their investment decisions including carbon emissions and its impact on climate.
• Australia has the highest per capita greenhouse gas emissions in the OECD (26 tCO2e/person/year). Th...

From our latest Mumbai office note, we've explored GST's transformational effects on India, where we highlight why many listed Indian businesses will create significant wealth for investors during this period of momentum!

India’s Prime Minister, Narendra Modi introduced India’s biggest tax ...

Key Insights:

• Superannuation asset allocation towards listed and unlisted real estate has steadily increased since 2013.
• Retail funds have the highest exposure to GREITs, aging demographic profiles of several non- retail funds is expected to increase the demand for listed real estate over unlisted.
• GRE...

Football World Cup 2018 is creating waves, and last week, we saw how the countries fared in FX & Football for Round 16.  

The big quarter-finals start today: will we better our 50% prediction rate this time around? 

Here are our predictions: 

Quarter-finals:

URUGUA...

With proper FX Risk management, firms can enhance their strategic decision-making process by assessing the costs, benefits, and risks associated with currency fluctuations. FX hedging does not have to be complex to be effective, it can just be as simple as a Forward Contract. 

The...

Some highlights:  

⇒ January 2018:

 

• Australia ANZ Consumer Confidence strengthened: Highest score since October 2013. 

• Australian state Victoria to double the value of its export to India to AUD 1 billion over the next decade.
  • Doubling the number of Victorian businesses engaged ...

What does the Family Office basics entail?

• Clear Objective - in terms of wealth creation, preservation, and monitoring
• Investment - a minimum baseline; specific areas of interest; value propositions - which may vary in terms of the entry point and the stage of the company /...

The 2018 FIFA World Cup is underway, and the field has been set for the 16th round of the world's biggest sporting event. 

Did you know - World Cup 2018 has garnered over 117.3 million views in India alone! 

We are trying to predict who is going to win the next ...

Below are the highlights: 

• Global listed infrastructure investors have earned very healthy returns over the past decade.
• Despite increasing allocations in the past decade, the asset class is still under owned by many Superannuation funds.
• Strong secular returns have been underpinned by earnin...