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Greencape wins top Zenith rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 AUG 2016
... Wholesale High Conviction Fund offers investors the opportunity to invest in a concentrated portfolio of between 15 and 40 stocks and aims to outperform the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index over rolling three year periods. It has delivered 3.65% ...

Stockspot and Class form data deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
A direct data feed for SMSFs showing portfolio investments, capital gains, dividend statements, franking credits and tax summaries is now live through a new industry partnership. Automated investment adviser and fund manager Stockspot has teamed with ...

Is gold on the ceiling for Australian investors?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... benchmark is gold companies and that's been very painful in the last year because the commodity has risen 30% and gold stocks in some instances are up more than 100% and that's cost us dearly," Campbell said. "If you take the entire stock of gold in ...

WAM finds returns in growth companies

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... capitalisation assets test and the planned introduction of a formal free float test," WAM Capital said. WAM Capital's top performing stocks for the year were Smartgroup, A2 Milk, IPH, Mayne Pharma Group, and Blackmores. Among its top holdings are Hunter ...

UBS Microcap fund added to Macquarie Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... the market." According to Morningstar, factors helping the small-cap sector included a diminished proportion of resource stocks, which dropped from 46% of the Small Ordinaries Index in 2010 to 25% last year. While traditionally more volatile than their ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2016
... of CGSs were held by global investors, reports the AOFM. ASX index and cap raisings fall in June The value of ASX listed stocks, as measured by the All Ordinaries Index, fell 2.5% in June 2016, reports the ASX. Declines were also observed in other major ...

BlackRock, Aviva receive ratings nod

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... platforms on 8 July 2016. The fund aims to outperform the S&P 300 industrials accumulation index, excluding the top five stocks by market capitalisation, by between 4% to 6% a year before fees over rolling three year periods. In its report Zenith said ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... orders (+4 from +2) and continuing improvement in exports (+2 from +1) and profitability (+12 from +11). The fall in the "stocks" component from +4 to +1 in June is also good news as it suggests increased production to replenish dwindling stocks. Quarterly ...

Zenith finds value in reduced blue chip exposure

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2016
The best-performing funds on Zenith's approved product list were those that reduced exposure to the top 20 ASX stocks, according to its 2016 Australian Large Companies Sector Review. The review found that, on average, approved Zenith products returned ...

Morningstar introduces global risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... at the outset, but Morningstar plans to expand to other asset classes in the future. It currently evaluates over 40,000 stocks and 10,000 equity fund portfolios, and contains 36 risk factors which cover style, sector, region and currency characteristics. ...