Reading time: 5 minutes Emerging markets no longer only for the brave Some time ago, investing in emerging market companies was not for the faint of heart. Sector exposures were very biased towards manufacturing and agriculture, while the economies these companies operated in were immature and often had structural issues. What’s more, investors brave enough

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Reading time: 7 minutes Volatility returned to investment markets over the past year as growth accelerated and central banks, especially the US Federal Reserve (Fed), started to remove excess liquidity by raising interest rates and reversing quantitative easing.  As a defensive, income focused equity strategy, the BetaShares Legg Mason Real Income Fund (managed fund) (RINC)

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After nearly a decade of incredibly easy monetary policy, the global interest rate cycle is turning. The US Federal Reserve has started to increase official interest rates and unwind quantitative easing and in Australia, although official interest rates are on hold, the next move is more likely to be up rather than down. So where

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Real assets are tangible assets like property, infrastructure and utilities and they are quite different to financial assets such as cash, bonds and shares, as they rely on you, and the rest of the population, to help them generate investment returns. A day in the life – you use real assets every day Without even

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