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UBS appoints new sector heads for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... 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 diversified financials. Prior to this, he spent a ...

Hearts and Minds donates almost $10m to charity

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... way our model works is that we invest in the highest conviction ideas from our fund managers." It is underweight to financials, utilities, healthcare and materials compared to the MSCI World Index. Only six of the companies that HM1 invests in have a ...

Presidents don't move markets much: S&P

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2020
... example of this, Preston said, could be found in the data from the 2016 election where the best-performing sector was financials and the worst-performing sector was utilities. The difference between the two was 19.34%. The gamble investors took on financials ...

Several promoted at Yarra Capital

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... of Yarra's Ex-20 Australian equities capability. Waller has been responsible for research of banks, diversified financials & insurance, infrastructure and utilities securities within the Australian equities team. He has 13 years' industry experience ...

S&P 500 rebounds from COVID-losses

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2020
... services (+1.09%) and information technology (+0.39) lead the gains amongst the different sectors. Energy (-1.71), financials (-0.67%) and industrials (-0.54%) led the losses, with Yang saying the performance of the sectors showed a mixed, even bearish ...

How to make sense of reporting season

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... are expected to fall almost -20%, while the UK is expected to report close to a -40% drop given the large exposure to financials and energy," it said. "Looking forward, the key is around the shape of the recovery, with consensus earnings currently implying ...

State Street warns of dot-com parallels

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2020
... current market environment had been testing for fundamental investors. "Searching out proven business models with solid financials that can generate free cash flow and are more resilient to economic shocks would appear to be out of vogue," he said. "In ...

Top equities managers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... active managers." The top performing sectors over one year were healthcare, IT, and consumer staples, while energy, financials and real estate underperformed. Over the past three months, IT, consumer discretionary and energy sectors outperformed the ...

Capital Group appoints ESG head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... more than 20 years of experience, all with Schroders. She initially joined the firm as a research analyst covering financials and utilities in 1997 and has worked as a fund manager on the UK equity team. In her last role, she led a team of ESG analysts ...

Chi-X releases viral TraCRs stocks

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... latest tranche of Chi-X TraCRs complements a growing list of US names that cover the technology sector, industrials, financials and consumer staples. As more Australians attempt to take advantage of market dislocation by opening trading accounts and ...