After a strong 2024 (led by the Mag 7 and Artificial Intelligence (AI) stocks), this investment year has started off with some volatility...

Douglas Funds Consulting had a steady 2023 with highlights including a business trip to London, UK in March to meet managers across a...

Given the ongoing global pandemic and general working from home situation in the financial services industry, I have decided to give up...

Recently, I was appointed as an External Voting Member of the Stanford Brown Investment Committee. Stanford Brown is based in North...

The speed and depth of the equities market sell-off and volatility across other asset classes has been astonishing even given the...

Tomorrow (Tuesday 6th August 2019) at the IMAP (Institute of Managed Accounts Professionals) Conference in Sydney, I will be chairing a...

Douglas Funds Consulting has recently celebrated its' three year anniversary. This milestone has been capped with the recent appointment...

Over the last few months, Douglas Funds Consulting ("DFC") has been called upon to participate in two industry judging panels; AFMF...

A recent speech by Alexandra Heath, the Head of the Economic Analysis Department at the Reserve Bank of Australia (The Evolving...

Recently, I was appointed Chair of the Fortnum Private Wealth Ltd Investment & Insurance Committee. The Fortnum Group was founded in...

Managed accounts have become very popular with financial advisers over the last few years mainly due to technological and regulatory...

Much to the surprise of many market participants, the Australian dollar has traded strongly in the New Year holiday period, reaching USD...

I was recently at a well attended function where the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Julie Bishop, discussed the recent launch of the...

Last week, I attended a number of excellent conferences run by Nikko AM, Portfolio Construction Forum ("PCF"), MFS and i3 investment...

On Friday 4th August, 2017, the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) released its' regular Statement on Monetary Policy (SMP) which provides...

In view of our previous blog on the FCA UK report, it should be noted that the Australian government has asked the Productivity...

The UK FCA (Financial Conduct Authority) has just released its' long awaited final report into the UK asset management industry. Overall,...

In a popular Bank of England blog earlier this year (4th January 2017), Paul Schmelzing from Harvard University analysed almost 800 years...

Nigel Douglas, former senior manager of mandate research at ANZ Global Wealth, has realised a "long held goal" to launch his own...