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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...

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 ...

• 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

INDIAN GST - WHAT, WHEN, WHY

More than 10 years after it was initially proposed, India has rolled out a Goods and Services Tax on July 1 2017 making it the single biggest tax reform since Indian independence in 1947. The GST will simplify a highly complex and layered tax system comprising of upto 17 ...

Fluctuating Exchange Rate impact bottom line 

The travel industry is an international business with FX movements having a direct impact on bottom line, exposing the businesses to economic uncertainties and making it difficult to protect your projected profit margins. Travel Agents and Opera...

Out of the 284 Australian family offices that we regularly speak to, 22% have shown strong interest to invest into India. Yet, we are only aware of 7% who have been investing into India to date.

Ever since our efforts began over the past 4 years to educate the family office sector about the India opp...

Every corner we turn, the world is abuzz with words like Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Video Analytics and Machine Learning, but what do these buzzwords mean? Can we imagine a world today without a mobile and internet? The answer seems to be a big ‘No!’ to most part of the world ...

At the AsiaConnect roundtable hosted by Swaab Attorneys - Ram Gorlamandala, Co-founder and Director at Tat Capital presented the story behind the state of Fintech in India including the impact Aadhaar (India's national biometric identity card) has had on individuals and corporates and how ...

"When you bring a new capability like Aadhaar, it takes time for people to understand what it does and how it can be used. There is certain diffusion time, we are in that phase, I am very confident in the coming year, Aadhaar based companies and application will be numerous. It will become a bi...