Quarterly Insights: Is the investment playbook changing?

For decades, investors could rely on a familiar set of assumptions about markets, interest rates, globalisation and economic growth. Today, many of those assumptions are being challenged. In this episode of Quarterly Insights, Nic Andrew, Managing Executive at Nedgroup Investments, joins Rob Johnson, Head of Investments, to unpack the key themes from Nic's recent presentation at our Global Investment Summit presentation. Their conversation explores the forces reshaping the investment landscape, including higher-for-longer interest rates, geopolitical uncertainty, demographic shifts, artificial intelligence and changing industry dynamics.

They also discuss why valuation still matters, why diversification remains essential, and how investors can position portfolios to navigate a wider range of possible outcomes. The discussion leaves investors with a simple but powerful principle: while predicting the future remains difficult, preparing for it has never been more important.