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Retirement Portfolio Resilience Knowledge Centre

Welcome to Gyrostat's News & Insights.

Gyrostat specialises in Retirement Portfolio Resilience—the discipline of helping investors remain financially and emotionally invested throughout their retirement journey, regardless of the path markets take.

Our objective is to contribute to the development of Retirement Portfolio Resilience through research, education and practical portfolio construction insights.

Our News & Insights section brings together more than 15 years of research, educational articles and practical insights, organised through the Retirement Portfolio Resilience Framework to help investors, advisers and researchers understand, assess and implement Retirement Portfolio Resilience.

The Five Pillars of Retirement Portfolio Resilience Assessment

Sequencing Risk Awareness
Understanding how the order of investment returns influences retirement outcomes.

Behavioural Survivability
Helping investors remain financially and emotionally invested during periods of market uncertainty.

Risk Pricing Discipline
Understanding the current pricing of risk and protection, how changing market conditions influence portfolio resilience, and the practical actions investors can consider. Our regular market insights examine current market conditions to assist investors and advisers in understanding the pricing of risk rather than attempting to predict markets.

Retirement Portfolio Construction
Recognising that retirement portfolios often combine complementary functions, including:

  • Retirement Income – strategies designed to generate sustainable retirement income.

  • Retirement Portfolio Resilience – strategies designed to improve resilience across a broad range of market environments.

Resilience Across Market Environments
Building portfolios that can operate across changing market conditions rather than relying on favourable market outcomes.

Assessing Retirement Portfolio Resilience

The Retirement Portfolio Resilience Framework is intended not only to explain retirement investing, but also to provide a practical framework for assessing portfolio resilience.

Our research explores practical questions including:

  • How has the portfolio performed during periods of significant market decline?

  • How has the portfolio participated across different market environments, including through historical and scenario beta?

The articles below are organised around the Five Pillars and trace the evolution of Retirement Portfolio Resilience from practical investment observations to a structured framework for understanding, assessing and implementing Retirement Portfolio Resilience.

The articles contained within this Retirement Portfolio Resilience News & Insights section are provided for general educational purposes. Before making any investment decision, investors should refer to the applicable Product Disclosure Statement and obtain independent professional advice.

Latest Posts

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Feature article: Retirement income policy - issues & background

18 November 2019

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FirstLinks article: Three key outcomes needed from the Retirement Income Review

31 October 2019

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Feature Article: Positive developments likely from the Retirement Income Review

18 October 2019

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Presentation:- Gyrostat Absolute Return Income Equity Fund

27 September 2019

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Feature article: Comprehensive Income Products for Retirement – Treasury framework

18 September 2019

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Feature article: Sequencing risk for retirees – the consequences of loss ‘late cycle’

19 August 2019

Primary Pillar: Sequencing Risk Awareness Read More

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Feature article: Equity income in retirement products

12 August 2019

Primary Pillar: Retirement Portfolio Construction Read More

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Gyrostat Absolute Return Income Equity Fund - Frequently Asked Questions

29 July 2019

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Gyrostat Absolute Return Income Equity Fund presentation: Equity income in retirement solution for falling interest rates

19 July 2019

Primary Pillar: Retirement Portfolio Construction Read More

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Strategies and product structures: "alternatives"

08 July 2019

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