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Best, worst investment ideas for 2021: ARK

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... low correlations to traditional asset classes. It has less of a correlation to real estate, gold or emerging market currencies than the S&P 500. "Based on daily returns across asset classes during the past 10 years, our analysis suggests that allocations ...

BlackRock readies for crypto exposure

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... which are financial instruments that derive their value from one or more securities, commodities (such as gold or oil), currencies (including bitcoin), interest rates, credit events or indices (a measure of value or rates, such as the S&P 500 Index or ...

CFM fund to wind up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... strategy for local investors is the CFM ISTrends Trust, which uses long-term trend following to invest in commodities, currencies, fixed income, short-term rates, equities and credit.

American manager eyes local market

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... Brookvine is called Welton Global and targets uncorrelated returns from equity indices, fixed interest, commodities and currencies. "It uses a proprietary set of 30+ underlying strategies spanning trend, enhanced trend, short-term, non-directional and ...

Global equities manager hires GM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... across Australia and South East Asia. For nearly eight years he oversaw the Aussie equities, research, fixed income, currencies and commodities business. Prior to that he was chief operating officer of equities for three years, and managed the equity ...

Winton fund looks to change fee structure

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... long and short positions in exchange-traded futures and forward contracts of stock indices, bonds, interest rates, currencies and commodities. It is managed by Winton's founder and British hedge fund billionaire David Harding, who previously also co-founded ...

Vision Super revises investment strategy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... valuable source of diversification and provide some downside protection during market downtrends and in circumstances when currencies are depreciating," Vision said. "Historically there have been very long periods where there has been little return from ...

Platform business in administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... was one of the best in the market. It is still the only platform that can execute direct shares in over 10 different currencies and 10 different exchanges and that's why they [advisers] loved it."

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... attractive relative value at the sector level in EM credit, we believe that selective opportunities remain in rates and currencies away from many of the large benchmark constituents." The IMF recently revised GDP forecasts down for EM by two percentage ...

Gold rally continues to hit new highs

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... quantitative easing will generate higher consumer price inflation, as well as investors seeing gold as an alternative to paper currencies. "Perhaps most importantly, the opportunity cost of holding gold versus cash or government bonds as an alternative ...