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UBS appoints new sector heads for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
UBS has named new sector heads for its sell-side equities coverage, including a hire from Credit Suisse. Andrew Adams will lead UBS's coverage of insurance and diversified financials. Adams has worked at Credit Suisse for the last 10 years, covering ...

NPS buffers COVID-19 shocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... Korea suffered unprecedented challenges of the worldwide spread of coronavirus, NPS said. Despite the domestic and global stock markets plunging by 30% in mid-March, the fund delivered about -6.08% in the first quarter. South Korea's main stock market ...

Dividends ripe for the picking

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
Australian equities are set to continue to provide dividend income for retirees more so than safe haven assets, according to a retirement income specialist. Plato Investment Management managing director Don Hamson said despite the hearsay that dividends ...

Argo Infrastructure posts $9.3m loss, but increases dividends

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
The ASX-listed infrastructure investment company has increased its fully franked dividends for the full year, despite reporting a loss of $9.3 million. Argo Global Listed Infrastructure said the multi-million dollar loss was a result of a downward revaluation ...

Robinhood effect steers share market

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... pulled away. Then there is the influx of amateur investors, otherwise known as "Robinhood investors", as popularised by US stock-trading app Robinhood, which are flooding the share markets, and pushing some indices such as the S&P500 Index, to record ...

ESG investors overreact to negative news

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... the negative news will reoccur. "Thus, when institutional investors observe a negative shock to the ESG attributes of a stock, it is expected that they will overestimate the probability of further shocks, resulting in a stronger tendency to sell, and ...

Advice disciplinary body delayed

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
Financial advisers will have to wait until June 2021 for the long-awaited disciplinary body that is purported to professionalise the industry. Assistant Minister for Superannuation, Financial Services and Financial Technology, Senator Jane Hume flagged ...

Advisers more bearish than clients

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
This year is the first time financial advisers have been less optimistic than retail investors, with advisers only anticipating capital gains of 1.3% over the next 12 months from local shares. That's according to the latest data from Investment Trends ...

Vanguard leaves Hong Kong, Japan for Shanghai

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... mainland China as the two offshore operations did not have "significant scale". The ETF provider said in a statement to the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong that it made the decision following an extensive review by Vanguard of its international business ...

Is your CEO smart or just lucky?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... Carolina academic Turk Al-Sabah probed the question in recently published his research titled CEO Power and Luck: Impact of Stock Markets on Building Powerful CEOs. Al-Sabah said while economic theory predicts that boards filter out luck (defined by ...