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Our CEO, Chris Andrews recently sat down with Ross Greenwood on Sky News Australia to discuss the “trillion-dollar question” of why stock markets are hitting record levels despite the economy being so slow.

At La Trobe Financial, we understand that investment trends come and go, but solid fundamentals perform across the cycle.  That’s why we’re committed to those simple, foundational tenets which have provided a long history of impeccable performance for our investors:  Quality assets, carefully selected & diversified, managed in transparent structures by skilled professionals.

Each year, U.S central bankers, economists and global policy makers gather for a symposium in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The agenda typically sets the direction across a range of fiscal and monetary outcomes for the year ahead.

For Australia, our participation in the Asian Century was always about one thing: getting things right in our own backyard.  For the Australian economy to be part of the upside of a growing Asia, Australia itself had to become a productive, efficient, value-adding economy.  We need to acknowledge and provide the unmet needs of our regional partners.  We need to work on building on regional engagement.  Long maligned for simply being ‘the lucky country’, Australia needed to be the smart one.