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Powerhouse Ventures to acquire Aliwa

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2024
... acquisition will provide leverage and ability to capitalise on the risk-reward opportunity set presenting itself in micro-cap stocks and the risk asset landscape. Separately, Powerhouse has acquired Informed Investor from Sequoia Financial Group. Sequoia ...

WAM tells investors it 'got the call wrong'

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 SEP 2024
... Fund was gearing up for a "huge rotation" in Australia's share market, hoping to buy up "unloved mining and 'battleground' stocks". The bold bet follows a rough year for the $1.9 billion WAM Leaders portfolio, which returned just 2.8% in the 2024 financial ...

Lazard AM brings Japanese equities fund to Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... (TOPIX) Net Total Return Index by 3%-5% p.a. The fund has a portfolio of around 30 securities selected from about 3900 listed stocks. The number varies depending on the company's market cap, which currently sits at a minimum of US$500 million. Led by ...

AI could see emerging markets flourish: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... could be just around the corner. "EM equities have been in a more-than decade-long bear market relative to developed market stocks. With a caveat about the difficulty of timing inflection points, the building blocks for a turnaround are falling into ...

NZ Super Fund shines bright with standout return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2024
... exceptionally well," Townsend said. The rally in global equities, however, was largely powered by the Magnificent Seven technology stocks - Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Nvidia, Meta, and Tesla - whose combined market capitalisation eclipses that ...

Global X's best three ideas for portfolio construction

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... the equities. The provider sells the call options forward to a buyer, who pays a premium for the right to purchase the stocks if they rise beyond a certain price threshold. He added, however, to keep in mind that you forego upside capture if the market ...

Macquarie AM launches emerging markets equity ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... Liu-Er Chen - in the US. The team currently has US$8.3 billion in assets under management. Boasting a portfolio of 35-60 stocks, EMEQ depicts its investment strategies on companies well positioned to capture long-term secular growth opportunities in ...

Schroders expands stable of global equity funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... earnings in excess of the market's expectations will therefore outperform." Schroders said 'growth gaps' can materialise in stocks where there's a difference between underlying company fundamentals and market estimates. This creates three inefficiencies ...

BlackRock launches new bond ETF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 26 AUG 2024
... level of default risk, offering defensive benefits to the broader portfolio. The historic inverse relationship between stocks and bonds has been challenged in recent years. As inflation starts to return to target, we may see the historic correlation ...

The four Ds to watch in the decades to come: La Trobe

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JUL 2024
... passively managed assets on US stock exchanges is now greater than that which is actively managed. "Investors no longer want stocks; they want themes, and they want sectors," Watson said. At the same time, fewer companies are tapping listed markets to ...