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The price is not right

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2017
Quo vadis inflation? The minutes of the Fed's 31 October - 1 November FOMC meeting revealed Yellen & Co's continued confusion over the unresponsiveness of consumer price inflation to undeniably solid growth in the economy. According to the minutes ...

Watermark hires global equities lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... performance was beset by unfavourable stock-picking conditions, value gains being offset by losses in resources and financials and "lack of exposure to the rising market in the second half of 2016." It did however, deliver consistent positive rates of ...

Perennial LIC extends investment mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
... diverse opportunity set," which is far more sector-diversified than the top 100 stocks on the ASX. To illustrate, where financials occupy 40% of the ASX 100, they represent only 8% of the Small Ords. The manager also said markets are more inefficient ...

Pinnacle boutique launches $250m LIC offer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... diverse opportunity set," which is far more sector-diversified than the top 100 stocks on the ASX. To illustrate, where financials occupy 40% of the ASX 100, they represent only 8% of the Small Ords. The manager also said markets are more inefficient ...

UniSuper builds equities team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... who also hailed from Bank of America Merrill Lynch working in Australian banks research, joins as a senior analyst of financials. Spence and Hill will commence their new positions in December and January respectively. UniSuper said the new appointments ...

Voting opens for 2017 Power50

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
Voting is now open for the 2017 Power50 list of Australia's most influential financial advisers. Last month Financial Standard received more than 600 nominations (including multiple nominations) on who should be recognised in the 50 Most Influential ...

Platinum LIC reaps Asia rewards

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... highlighted as performance drivers over 2017, and the industry sectors which delivered positive contributions were financials, information technology and consumer discretionary.

Ethical investing fruitful for income investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... income investors can find green opportunity stocks that also deliver high income in almost every sector, including financials, industrials and utilities. The study also found that higher dividend paying stocks on average performed better on corporate ...

Emerging markets need a rethink

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... that insures him when he buys his first car. For that reason, our portfolio is almost entirely consumer staples and financials," he said. The fund targets companies with a market cap above US$1 billion, an average daily trading volume above US$1 million ...

Managed accounts growth delivers strong Praemium result

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 AUG 2017
... Australian business is growing and profitable. The international business is also growing and continues to improve its financials year-on-year."