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Global PE firm buys Australian office chain

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
The Australian and New Zealand operations of business product and solutions provider Staples has been acquired by a global private equity firm for an undisclosed sum. The news of Platinum Equity's acquisition occurs at the same time the firm announced ...

SMSF investors trade during market volatility

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2017
... holdings, followed by materials (11 %), telecommunications services (7.8%), diversified financials (6.4%) and food and staples (6%). Banks also comprise nearly a quarter of all trades by value for SMSFs compared to 18% for non-SMSFs. Materials and energy ...

Fund managers must offer genuine partnerships

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... Buffett-owned Berkshire Hathaway is trading on a lower multiple than Campbell's Soup as the market has bid up consumer staples. Other stocks held across the portfolios include MasterCard and Samsung. Pacific Current head of distribution Stephen Bramley ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 AUG 2016
... the African Competition Forum (ACF). The report, Breaking Down Barriers, found that reducing the prices of basic food staples by just 10% as a result of tackling cartels and improving regulations that limit competition in food markets, could lift nearly ...

SMSFs ramp up trading in turbulent markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... holdings, followed by materials (10%), telecommunications services (7.3%), diversified financials (5.8%) and food and consumer staples (5.7%).

Steady funds thrive in low growth world

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... revenue "in good and in bad years." It avoids banks, utilities, energy, materials and telcos, while favouring large consumer staples, software, consumer discretionary, industrials and healthcare and pharmaceutical companies. "Over the long term [these ...

Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... fixed income market because "credit risk has gone up all over the world because debt to GDP has gone up as well." Consumer staples stocks are also risky because they could fall, even if they are seen as a proxy to fixed income: "People also thought for ...

Market down at midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... potential for a negative open on Monday if there is no Greek deal on the weekend." Every sector was down except for consumer staples, with utilities stocks being particularly punished losing 3.3 per cent. Gas pipeline operator APA Group was 42 cents ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... low bond yields have driven some investors towards more stable stocks that tend to behave like bonds, such as consumer staples or healthcare. This has driven valuations up for low volatility stocks. However, "when volatility comes back those investors ...

No downing the dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
... - the All Ords index rose by 0.7% (and this, on the back of a negative lead from America and Europe) - led by consumer staples (up 1.7%) and consumer discretionary (up 1.2%). How can these sectors not be happy little vegemites with Budget 2015/16 handing ...