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Carbon Scorecard for Global Equity Portfolios

28.08.18 12:50 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
Carbon Scorecard for Global Equity Portfolios

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...

GST to Transform India

24.08.18 01:08 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
GST to Transform India

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 ...

GREITs Landscape Review – Outlook for institutional allocation positive, but caution warranted on active managers

23.08.18 02:23 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
GREITs Landscape Review – Outlook for institutional allocation positive, but caution warranted on active managers

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...

'FIFA World Cup vs FX: Who will win?' - a Tat Capital prediction

06.07.18 03:20 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
'FIFA World Cup vs FX: Who will win?' - a Tat Capital prediction

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: wink

Quarter-finals:

URUGUA...

FX Forwards: Brave world for SMEs

06.07.18 03:14 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
FX Forwards: Brave world for SMEs

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...

6 months in, what did 2018 have for Aus-India?

06.07.18 03:09 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
6 months in, what did 2018 have for Aus-India?

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 ...

The rise of Family Office in Australia

06.07.18 03:04 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
The rise of Family Office in Australia

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 /...

FX in the time of Football World Cup - Round 16 predictions

29.06.18 03:25 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
FX in the time of Football World Cup - Round 16 predictions

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 ...

Active Global Listed Infrastructure Strategies to offer better downside protection for investors

18.06.18 02:20 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
Active Global Listed Infrastructure Strategies to offer better downside protection for investors

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...

Whitepaper: Access idiosyncratic growth from Global Small Caps

18.06.18 02:09 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
Whitepaper: Access idiosyncratic growth from Global Small Caps

Despite the high certainty of global small caps out-performing global large caps (aka the ‘small cap effect’) over the long term, Australian institutional and wholesale investors have been reluctant to allocate equity capital outside the global large caps and global emerging markets. As a matter of ...

Growth, Momentum and Quality factors drive world equity market returns

26.04.18 01:28 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
Growth, Momentum and Quality factors drive world equity market returns

Highlights from our review of the global equity market factor premium: 
  • There was a high level of persistence in growth, momentum and quality factor premiums over 3, 6 and 12 month periods.
  • In addition value factors underperform with high level of persistence over time periods and acros...

Asset allocation biases of Australian Super funds, active manager performance in Emerging markets and trends in equity market factor premium

21.11.17 12:10 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
Asset allocation biases of Australian Super funds, active manager performance in Emerging markets and trends in equity market factor premium

Here's your monthly round up of the latest Foresight posts.

Do active managers add value in Emerging market equities? Part 1.

  • Emerging Markets (EM) have been outperforming Developed Markets (DM) and this trend is likely to continue given the fundamental backdrop.
  • Factor premiums across EM have been ver...

India’s banking challenges in the fintech era, and the role of Aussie firms

23.10.17 03:58 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
India’s banking challenges in the fintech era, and the role of Aussie firms

Indian FinTech industry is without doubt growing at an outstanding pace, giving the highest RoI of 29% against the global average of 20.1%. (Source: PwC - Redrawing the Lines - 2017). Statista reports that the transaction value of the Indian fintech market is $44,068mn in 2017, with a...

The role of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) & Smart Cities in the newage development paradigm

11.10.17 04:05 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
The role of Intelligent Transport System (ITS) & Smart Cities in the newage development paradigm

In our last insights, we saw the advent and evolution of Internet of Things (IoT) & related fields - their ongoing, humungous impact on the growth trajectory, and the need for connectivity to offer simpler, richer and energy efficient ways to perform any task. Harbouring on that resourceful role...

Aiding Australian Family Offices to Turbo-Charge Portfolios with Indian Investment Opportunities

05.10.17 12:24 PM By Tat-Support - Comment(s)
Aiding Australian Family Offices to Turbo-Charge Portfolios with Indian Investment Opportunities

India is at the phase of a massive growth influx, with rapid transformation, rising reforms, increasing innovations, and a huge and eager market. In this insights, we will see how it ties together different aspects of its vast market, beckoning investors to cash in on the growth potential.

Economic o...

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