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Well-known stockbroker launches own SMAs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... focused on Australian equities for medium to long-term growth with some income. It will be concentrated, holding up to 20 stocks at once, and even conservative investors can benefit from its aggressive nature. "We have some safety mechanisms including ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... (https://www.boj.or.jp/en/announcements/release_2016/k160921a.pdf), sending the Nikkei-225 index soaring by 1.9% -- with 214 of the 225 stocks in the index on the up - at the close of trading. "The new policy framework consists of two major components ...

State Street partners with blockchain startup

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... existing banking infrastructures in the near term." Elsewhere, BNP Paribas will expand its blockchain platform for private stocks to assist private companies in issuing minibonds via crowdfunding platforms; made allowable recently by a French government ...

Forager plans listing for Australian Shares Fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... Steve Johnson said. "There is a limited universe of investment opportunities in this space and, because liquidity in these stocks is nothing like the largest stocks in the market, we need to carefully consider the size of our investments in each. "This ...

Value stocks at inflection point: Perennial

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... managing director John Murray told a recent media roundtable in Sydney that several triggers are moving in favour of value stocks, most likely leading to a turnaround or rotation out of bond-proxy type stocks. Murray said one trigger would be a rise ...

Vanguard changes emerging markets ETF index

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
... emerging markets. It contains approximately 3,550 securities from 22 countries, including access to 1,800 new small-cap stocks and 1,500 new China A-shares stocks, with total exposure to small-caps and China A-shares equating to 11% and 5% respectively. ...

Global equity managers not currency selectors

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
... opportunities to earn superior returns from global equities. Schmidt said opportunities typically include investments in: Smaller stocks, which tend to outperform larger stocks; Companies which are more profitable, as measured by their return-on-equity ...

Robeco Boston Partners finding value in the "three circles"

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... portfolio balances high quality large-caps like Google, Berkshire Hathaway, Samsung and Siemens with smaller international stocks that are "statistically cheap but have good fundamentals and good momentum." This idea represents Boston Partners' "three ...

Optimo launches free robo strategy platform

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... so Optimo Pathfinder Online uses an algorithm developed by Optimo Financial's founding principals Hugh Bannister and Ken Stocks, to provide a strategy that is calculated holistically, rather than in separate modules. "This is the sort of shift in paraplanning ...

Fund managers must offer genuine partnerships

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... built on the assumption that there is not much information advantage available but most market participants tend to look at stocks on a three-year horizon or shorter. By focusing on a longer five-year horizon, Jain and his team of analysts expect to ...