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Global investment manager, First Sentier Investors, today announced changes to its investment capabilities within Australia.
Our 2026 outlook explores the trends driving progress and how First Sentier Group’s asset class specialists are thinking about where they can unlock opportunity in a changing world.
Discover how our equity managers with one of Australia's longest track records provide capital and income growth by investing in the Australian share market.
First Sentier Investors is the new name for First State Investments. We’ve always been renowned for our research-led active management approach. Curious to know more?
We are entering a new era. The year 2024 will be unpredictable and clouded by many uncertainties. It will be marked by geopolitical risks, the ongoing taming of the inflation beast, and how the US Presidential election will impact markets.
RQI Investors’ quantitative value strategies have a long history of outperformance versus peers and value indices. Our disciplined, highly active, and repeatable value investing process provides investors with a benchmark unaware, diversified equity portfolio that is cost competitive versus fundamental active stock pickers.
Diversified Alpha is a core systematic strategy designed to deliver consistent, risk-adjusted returns above the benchmark, with Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) considerations embedded into the process.
Deputy Head of Global Listed Infrastructure, Andrew Greenup, tells Livewire the most compelling reasons for investors to consider listed infrastructure as part of their portfolios, some common misconceptions, and shares a high conviction stock pick; the world's largest renewables owner.
Concentration in equity markets has reached unprecedented levels, particularly in the United States. A select few mega-cap stocks, colloquially referred to as the "Magnificent 7," now dominate market indices, reflecting a convergence of technological innovation, speculative enthusiasm, and the allure of generative AI.
Dr Joanna Nash, Senior Quant Portfolio Manager and Head of Portfolio Management and Dr David Walsh, Head of Investments share the key drivers of recent outperformance and how AI is enhancing the investment process.
Global listed infrastructure underperformed in 2023 owing to rising interest rates and a shift away from defensive assets. Relative valuations are now at compelling levels. Infrastructure assets are expected to see earnings growth in 2024 and beyond, aided by structural growth drivers.
The conversation explored the role of AI in quant and what role quant equities can play alongside fundamentals active versus passive investing.
Concentration in equity markets has reached unprecedented levels. While this has driven remarkable returns for a narrow slice of the market, it raises critical questions about diversification, valuation, and risk for equity investors.
Each investment team has developed a climate change statement and carbon footprint report. We provide a combined footprint for all listed equity portfolios and individual listed equity team carbon footprints.
We consider ESG risks to be factors that may place business value at risk. Companies at risk are identified using both external providers and our own internally driven research, which is based on a systematic and extensive company meeting program.
This paper outlines the responsible investing approach adopted by various First Sentier Investors investment teams across the globe. It involves a holistic way of thinking that addresses multiple impacts across multiple environmental, social and governance (ESG) measures. We believe it can lead to better long‑term financial and sustainability outcomes, across more measures, than more traditional frameworks.
For over twenty years, the global listed infrastructure asset class (GLI) has consistently generated dividend yields in the 3%-4% range. As valuation multiples have declined in the past few years, dividend yields have expanded into the upper half of this range.
Equity markets in 2025 unfolded in ways few investors would describe as familiar. David Walsh’s latest paper explores this extraordinary period in global equity markets, focusing on what sat beneath the headline volatility and why outcomes diverged so sharply from historical experience.
Corporate culture is a powerful dynamic in a company. It is the set of beliefs and attitudes about the way things are done, and so is a key component of many corporate functions.
The quant winter was a two‑year period from 2018 to 2020 when quant funds underperformed. This was largely a Developed Markets effect, with Australia also affected, and Emerging Markets showed a different profile (shorter and sharper)
