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Opportunities abound in COVID-19 environment

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2020
... growth," Xiradis said. "Sectors like Resources (including Rio Tinto, BHP, OZ Minerals and Independence Group), Consumer Staples (like Woolworths), Consumer Discretionary (such as JB Hi-Fi), Health Care (like CSL and ResMed), Telecommunication Services ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... continuing to pay dividends," she said. "That's why, since we entered a bear market, utilities, healthcare, consumer staples and some materials (mining stocks) have outperformed the market. While those that are abandoning their earnings forecasts ...

Wall Street rally runs out of steam

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 APR 2020
... sectors with the largest losses have not yet seen the largest gains. Instead, defensive sectors such as healthcare, consumer staples, utilities and telcos have led the recovery, he said.

Best, worst equities performers in COVID-19 sell-off revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2020
... benefited from a high cash position, an overweight to emerging markets, and a bias to quality defensive stocks in the consumer staples and healthcare sectors," Morningstar said. Strategies that perform well in down-markets, like Milliman Managed Risk ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... resources and tech," he said. Momentum areas during and following the crisis will be healthcare, property and consumer staples (supermarkets in particular), Taylor argues. He likes stocks like CSL and Ramsay Health Care, REITs and Coles (which is one ...

Aussie stocks burnt in blaze

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... quarter 2020. New research, coming out of investment giant UBS, names Treasury Wine Estates and Bega Cheese as two consumer staples that have been impacted by the crisis, while the report suggests weaker domestic travel and tourism could burn the bottom ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... expected to remain supportive. The financials sector was highlighted as a likely bright spot while defensives like consumer staples, real estate and utility stocks expected to lag. The article also noted that outlook is not entirely rosy as interest ...

Global equities fund purges tobacco, fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
... match the returns and the risk profile of tobacco in aggregate." Vontobel has "dialled up" investments in high-growth staples and stocks such as credit card company Mastercard and Unilever at different points in time to make up for the divestments. The ...

China A-shares to disrupt emerging markets strategies: Robeco

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... product per capita of the country, which will in turn result in more disposable income and consumption upgrades - from staples to luxuries, healthcare, entertainment and travel." Innovative China, Mio continued, will involve the government creating a ...

First Aussie fixed income mandate for global manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... growth strategy, saying it pairs well with an Australian equities mandate. "At one end we typically hold a lot of consumer staples because they're more durable and have nice economic returns plus the compounding rate of growth - whether it's in emerging ...