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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

Career In Finance 09

Strategies and product structures: "alternatives"

08 July 2019

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Feature article: Equity income funds with ‘hard’ protection always in place a solution for falling interest rates

05 July 2019

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Feature article: Financial innovation the answer for income and risk management

20 March 2019

Primary Pillar: Retirement Portfolio Construction Read More

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Gyrostat video- 'alternative defensive' asset to increase 'late cycle' returns

05 March 2019

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‘Alternatives – defensive’ for late cycle allocation to increase portfolio returns and reduce risks.

18 February 2019

Many wholesale/institutional/corporate asset allocations now have between 7.0% - 8.8% allocation to ‘alternatives – defensive’... Read More

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December 2018 update - Returns Increasing With Market Volatility

14 January 2019

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Career In Finance 12

Feature article: Investment risk management approaches

13 December 2018

Primary Pillar: Risk Pricing Discipline Read More

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Feature article: Equity Income in Retirement

27 November 2018

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Gyrostat Absolute Return Income Equity Fund - combines income, returns, protection at 2%

14 November 2018

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Gyrostat corporate expertise - risk managed investing (video)

29 October 2018

Category: Corporate Resource – Investment Philosophy Read More