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PM Capital fund receives Zenith rating

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... fund is already available on the Macquarie and Colonial First wraps and has a concentrated portfolio of between 15 to 35 stocks at any one time with individual positions not exceeding 10% of the portfolio's net asset value. Since its inception the fund ...

CBA to close institutional equities business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... Private bankers and wealth managers and our corporate bankers will have the added benefit of accessing research on over 3,100 stocks across five regions globally. This will provide another opportunity to deliver better outcomes for our customers." Goldman ...

SMSFs ramp up trading in turbulent markets

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2015
... Evans said. SMSFs also have a more diversified portfolio than other retail investors. They hold an average of 14 different stocks in their portfolio, compared to just seven for the average equities investor. Bank holdings are the most popular equities ...

UBS small cap SIV fund gets Zenith tick

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... the SIV emerging companies criteria. It gives investors access to an actively managed, core style, portfolio of small cap stocks. Zenith noted the "resources afforded to the small companies team is a competitive advantage for the Fund," and that "the ...

Bennelong blends active, passive in equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... blending active and passive management. The Bennelong Twenty20 Australian Equities Fund invests passively in the top 20 stocks of the ASX using the same structure as passive funds. But another component of the portfolio invests actively in the ex-ASX20 ...

Road of no return

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... the third quarter means that it would at best be a zero contributor to the fourth quarter economy as firms run down their stocks. More worrying is its implication for industrial and manufacturing production - slow, at best, until inventories hit painters ...

Appetite for international shares up 50% with major broker

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... sectors and want to get involved." CommSec data also shows that in the past 18 months, trading in international technology stocks has grown more than 67%. "We see a lot of customers dipping their feet into international trading around the time of high ...

Japan does a double double-dip

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2015
... decline in the June quarter. While the drop in inventories is positive going forward - as Japanese firms replenish their stocks - the 0.3 percentage point contribution from private consumption in the third quarter might not persist into the following ...

Share market risk returns are a lucky dip: Challenger

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... of the report The (un)Predictable Equity Risk Premium, Michael Drew said thinking about investments in terms of either stocks or bonds, or risk on and risk off, is dangerous when it comes to retirement incomes. "When we were going through the research ...

Vanguard wins adviser vote

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... managers who can provide exposure to international equities. As per Investment Trends' report, respondents expected domestic stocks to deliver only 6% capital gains on average over the next year (down from 8% in the previous report). Unsurprisingly ...