News & Insights

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 12

Gyrations February 2017 - Insights into risk management of an equity portfolio for retirement planning

08 February 2017

Primary Pillar: Retirement Portfolio Construction Read More

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Six years of stable and rising returns with regular income

13 December 2016

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Gyrations December 2016 - Insights into risk management of an equity portfolio

02 December 2016

Primary Pillar: Risk Pricing Discipline Read More

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Gyration November 2016 - Insights into risk management of an equity portfolio

28 October 2016

Primary Pillar: Risk Pricing Discipline Read More

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Gyrations 30 September 2016 - Insights into risk management of an equity portfolio

10 October 2016

Primary Pillar: Retirement Portfolio Construction Read More

Career In Finance 10

Risk-return profile at all times to participate in share price upside with minimal capital at risk - how we invest

27 September 2016

Primary Pillar: Retirement Portfolio Construction Read More

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Revolutionary risk management technique for post retirement investors

22 September 2016

Stable and rising investment returns through the market cycle with higher income than cash and... Read More

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Gyrations 31 August 2016 - Insights into risk management of an equity portfolio

06 September 2016

Primary Pillar: Retirement Portfolio Construction Read More

Career In Finance 11

"Do it yourself" risk managed equity income with protection. Explanation and costs. 31 July 2016

05 August 2016

Primary Pillar: Risk Pricing Discipline Read More

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July 2016 newsletter and performance report - cost of protection at near decade lows

05 August 2016

Primary Pillar: Risk Pricing Discipline Read More