Brisbane Investment News – July 2026
Pitcher Partners Wealth Management (Brisbane) | The information in these articles is current as at 20 July 2026
Welcome to our Investment news for July 2026. This edition covers the following topics:
Investment Markets In Review – Q2 2026
The financial year ended with share markets around the world in positive territory, however it was not a year without challenges.
Rule or Reason? Understanding systematic investing in a discretionary world
Investors may hear the term ‘systematic’ and feel their eyes gloss over, anticipating a convoluted explanation of how a computer is making all the decisions. The perceived removal of human decision-making drives further scepticism, leading to systematic strategies being viewed under the influence of a cocktail of confusion, boredom and fear. In reality, investors have more exposure to systematic strategies than they would realise
Learn more about systematic investing
Private Equity isn’t feeling very private anymore
Australian wealth investors now have unprecedented access to private equity, increasingly via ‘evergreen’ funds offering limited quarterly liquidity. But with a very large pool of products chasing a finite pool of capital, a multi-year distribution drought, redemption gates being tested and ASIC’s growing scrutiny, we believe the sector faces a period of consolidation. Our message to asset managers: don’t overcook the golden goose.
Our latest insights on Private Equity
Private credit: Looking beyond the AI headlines
Private credit has become one of the fastest-growing asset classes globally, but recent headlines have raised questions about the implications of AI for specific industries in the market.
We unpack the underlying drivers
AI horizon – Asia trip insights
With AI being all the rage in financial markets, we recently undertook a research trip up to Asia to gain a better understanding of what is happening in the technology supply chain and particularly the broader AI ecosystem.
