At our latest financial services roundtable held in Sydney on 28 March, journalists from Sydney Morning Herald, Firstlinks, Professional Planner, Money magazine, Morningstar and Money Management met executives from Schroders, Padua Solutions, Maple-Brown Abbott and the Ecstra Foundation.

The round table discussion was wide ranging, taking in bond yield curves and central bank action, the place of ESG in portfolio construction, the importance of financial literacy programs in schools and how software can help financial planners build better investment portfolios.