Blog tagged as Australia

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...

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 ...

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...

For a long period of time the internet has been the median for search, transfer and exchange of data, disrupting communication channels such as phone, fax and mail. Then came the age of analytics with high-tech platforms, systems and processors. Now with the evolution of smart technologies, internet...

Introduction

Our direct reach to principals of 350 single family offices (SFOs) and executives of 50 multi-family offices (MFOs) with a total wealth of $473.5 billion as at December 2016 – across Australia, New Zealand and the Indian subcontinent, has provided great insight into the family office sec...

Key Insights

• Australian investors’ propensity to allocate capital into domestic small caps is much greater than global small caps. This is despite the evidence for a superior ‘small cap effect’ in the global equity markets.

• Global small caps have a number of unique attributes that appear structural in...

The back-to-back visits of Australian Ministers Julie Bishop and Andrew Robb to India auger well for bilateral relations. A historic shift in relations took place during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Australia tour. Body language and symbolism apart, Prime Ministers Modi and Australian Prime Minist...