La Trobe Financial Chief Executive Chris Andrews discusses the “exciting” prospect of bringing the best investment strategies “around the world” to Australians.

“Predicting rain doesn’t count: building the ark does.” This simple and lesser-known quote of Warren Buffett speaks to many of the investment themes La Trobe Financial has espoused across a generation. We know that every decade will throw up one or more economic crises. We know that there’s always another one around the corner. So, build an ark – build portfolios that perform at all points along the economic cycle.

May 2024 – We provide an update on our portfolio performance, as well as share our current thinking on the property market and economy.

Did investor demand for private assets see more companies go private?  Or did more quality companies opting to raise capital through private market attract investors?  It’s a little bit of ‘chicken and egg’. Private capital markets are increasing significantly in size globally, and there is opportunity all over. Because having reached a critical mass, there is significant opportunity coming for retail investors to now participate right across private markets.